Spare the Rod is a 1961 British social drama. The movie contracts with an principled schoolteacher coming to teach a challenged cluster of East London pupils in a contemporary school during a time such formations were largely starving of attention and resources from education establishments and were widely observed as dumping grounds with sub-par teaching principles, for the containment of non-academically inclined children until they reached the school-leaving age. John Saunders, a supply teacher with liberal anti-corporal punishment views, arrives to take up a post at Worrell Street School in a publicly disadvantaged area of East London. He is consigned a class of scholars in their last year before leaving school and finds himself in charge of a group of unruly, badly-behaved teenagers from deprived home circumstances, with no attentiveness in education, who record their rebelliousness of authority by fighting, throwing classroom furniture around, whistling and laughing during bible readings and smoking in class. Saunders' teaching coworkers are all resistant to any change in the school's reprimand policy, with their attitudes informed either by dishearten and the fear of otherwise losing control of their pupils completely, or in the case of Arthur Gregory by a seeming relish for corporal punishment which borders on the …show more content…
Some parents take it too far by burning, torturing, and killing children. The scripture was never meant to be taken in the literal meaning. Nowhere in the text does it ever imply causing or afflicting great harm to a child. This is why so many psychologist disagree with corporal punishment. It is suggested that parents try other discipline techniques that are less harmful to the child. Statistics showed that most kids only comply with their parents immediately after spanking has occurred and other drifts back to the normal