[onlyme]

I think that discipline belongs at home. I am not adverse to giving my son a tapped hand or leg (usually only when he has done something dangerous though, not for everyday naughtiness). But event though I trust his teachers 100%, if they were to lay their hands on him in a bad way, at very least it would cause bad feeling between myself and them.

My son seems to have respect for people and has RARELY (if ever) needed harsh discipline from anyone else that has looked after him. In fact, most people say that he behaves better when I am not there.

Is discipline something else that we are offloading onto an already overloaded education system??? Are we looking to not only feed the kids healthily, but discipline them as well, oh and a bit of learning may come in useful??? Or in 20 years time, are we just going to give birth and hand them straight over to a teacher to rear until us the parent can be trusted to look after them??