revive caning in schools

I just read that government has made the decision to revive caning in schools to curb discipline problems among students.
Will this be the best way to tackle the discipline problems among students?
During my time in school, I was a very discipline student.
I couldn't remember being cane by my teachers before.
But I was caned by my mother when I didn't listen to her.
I know that caning is not a fun thing.
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I will definitely feel very embarrassed if I am cane for being a bad student in school.
That's why I am superb obedient in school.

But as a teacher, I did cane my students.
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Sometimes, it really works.
But I make sure that I don't over do it.
Seriously, I worry that I might hurt them.
So, I only cane their hand and buttock (usually for the boys).

As a Form 6 teacher, of course, I don't practice that anymore.
But handling my Form 4 students is another story.
They will be more discipline when they see me entering the class with a cane.
But now, I seldom do that anymore.
I think they are used to my style.
They know that I don't cane them anymore.

I think caning doesn't work for older students.
Sometimes, I feel that they just want us to adjust to their attitude towards studies.
We can't make them to do things the way we want it.

I once was told by a student of mine that,
"You do whatever you have to do in the class.
We might not want to study, but there are students who want to study.
If we want to listen, we will listen."

My friend who teaches in another school was told by her students no need to teach at all because they have no interest in study and they will not listen at all.
So, I think I have better students.

Anyway, may be by reviving caning in school it might tackle the discipline problems.
May be the fear of being cane might revive their interest to study in school instead of socializing with friends.

Below is the article that I copy from www.malaysiakini.com.

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Gov't to revive caning in schools
Apr 7, 09 1:51pm

The Education Ministry is to revive caning in schools to curb discipline problems among pupils, three years after making moves to ban corporal punishment, a minister said today.

The government made the decision to revive caning last month and it will issue specific guidelines on how to implement the punishment, deputy education minister Wee Ka Siong told

"We will allow the headmaster or anyone who has been authorised to execute the punishment, while parents will be notified and invited to witness the caning to be done in a confined area," he said.

"We need to take precautions because students nowadays are not like students those days - they are 'too creative' in breaching the rules now," Wee said.

In 2006, the government said it was planning to ban public caning in schools, where the punishment is administered on the buttocks or the palm of the hand.
The education ministry also said a year later that it was considering allowing schools to cane unruly girls to curb an upsurge in discipline problems including gang fights and bullying.