Teachers: If you could remove the one student in each class who drains the most of your time and energy, would you become a more effective teacher? Or would another student simply become the new “problem child”?

@FixingEducation If I could remove one of my children from my house, the one who drains the most of my time and energy, would I become a more effective father?

@ACT2CAM @FixingEducation You'd have to state what the purpose of a father is first. Whatever it is, it's certainly not the same as the purpose of a teacher.

@Hardymatt0 @FixingEducation The purpose of a father and a teacher is (at least in part) to prepare his children for adult life and work. I would say also to foster a love of learning and cultural participation. Sure, there are differences (no analogy is perfect!).

@ACT2CAM @Hardymatt0 @FixingEducation The difference is a teacher used to be able to break a paddle across a kid’s ass, but can’t anymore. A father still can. The kids know that difference and act accordingly.

@MikeFrank152027 @Hardymatt0 @FixingEducation Not in the UK you can't, Mike. Corporal punishment makes minimal changes to behaviour other than destroying trust and reinforcing oppositional behaviours. There';s decades of research into how we just kept whipping the same kids over and over. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC83…

@ACT2CAM @MikeFrank152027 @Hardymatt0 @FixingEducation Don't look but your bias is showing

@logicalandmath @MikeFrank152027 @Hardymatt0 @FixingEducation OK, so I have a bias against beating children, you got me. That aside, what do you make of the research summary I linked?

@ACT2CAM @MikeFrank152027 @Hardymatt0 @FixingEducation You mean your cherry picked data that by your own admission is propoganda? The one where you incorrectly label discipline as "beating" that one?