WHAT verbal violence and aggression from Phillip Hayworth (Bible backs punishment) and Mr O’Connor (Rod needed for children and bankers) April 18.

I have seen children burned, starved, beaten and locked in small rooms in the name of religion. It certainly didn’t seem to help them do better at school. Many copied their parents and did the same to their children. Don't we all remember what hell has been allowed to continue in many churches?

Teachers do not want to spend their time delivering corporal punishment, Mr O’Connor.

Teachers want to teach.

They have spent years qualifying to do just this.

Discipline and education is needed, not the torture of our next generation.

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