Corporal Punishment?

[Violet]

I voted yes because there is a difference between a rap on the knuckles and beating the shit out of someone.

It's the difference between being spit on and slapped. Both of these cause one to firmly resent the offender.

Violence to someone never does damage to them (though you can bruise and break their platform)... but it does change them.

That you must use pain to maintain control shows you how weak your control is. Were you respected, you would need only ask. And now you will never be trusted, and everything you attempt to teach will be filtered through their dislike of you. To teach with pain sets a precedent: you must then force the rest of the material down their throats to be as effective as before, and they will never want it.

This (obviously?) occurs incrementally with the presentation of the pain, how long it lasts, and how strong it was. For maximum teaching potential: be a completely trusted figure who they not only wish to learn from... but who they will come to for assistance and advice. Anything that disturbs that trust of you must be avoided until the costs are high and permanent.

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No teacher ever hit me as hard or as often as my "father" did. So I tended to giggle when getting a spanking in school. Pissed the teachers off no end and failed to modify my behavior at all. I did get arrested for taking the paddle away from a teacher and threatening to turn him into a Popsicle.

You too then? Fascinating.

I went through school when they could no longer hit children... but it remains that every time I was 'detained' or sent home: my parents kept the old rules alive. Needless to say: it was completely ineffective at curbing my behavior, and only led me to a point where I no longer respected any teacher or parent.

Then the parents grew softer as the years went on... and as I said: you must continue along a path of pain once started. I became completely apathetic to their attempts at controlling me, and they lost my trust without doing much to regain it. Rules I 'followed' were because I was myself walking parallel to them.

... Funny now that I find being spanked erotic

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They won't even like going to school anymore.

I am told that I was quite excited for school at the start of Kindergarten. A few weeks in I am said to have confessed I didn't want to go anymore.