Summary Of Nick Freeman's Cane

Nothing that Nick Freeman has written is true. Will bringing back the cane restore discipline in school? He wants the cane to retrieve in schools because teachers are losing respect from their students. He is bestowing an opinion as if it is a fact because not all students disrespect their teachers.

Firstly, Freeman states that he desires to ‘re-establish order in the classroom’ and he is annoyed by the students of disrespecting their teachers. The reason he writes the article is because he wanted to ‘end truancy and restore respect for those in authority’. Even though he strongly agreed that ‘the only way’ for these problems’ is to bring back corporal punishment, the cane can induce the students to have lowered self-esteem, which could result in poor academic performance and inadequate social skills. Moreover, they wouldn't want to communicate or share new ideas with their families and friends.
He is presenting an opinion as a fact because he does not provide any facts or information to support this statement. By using the word ‘reduction’, he was implying that the cane could make ‘bad habits’ in school become less. However, the cane can affect children who are being caned feel anger, fear and hostility; they will have suicidal thoughts and depression in their later life. They will also become emotionally alienated. The effect of emotional alienation is the students will feel isolated from their family, friends and relatives. Additionally, it has a very pessimistic effect on other children: they may be emotionally traumatised after viewing such physical abuse which will stop disrupts the learning of