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Do you think corporal punishment should be reinstated in schools?

Why or why not?
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nickir · M
I think that any parent that's against corporal punishment in schools should be given a lesson plan for a 7th grade typical class. She will then have to teach to the lesson plan. She will have no control options that could cost the public any money, like a detention of more than 10 minutes as that would cause the sub trouble. She would not be allowed to send more than 2 kids out to the counselor or the dean (1 each) as that requires a referral which they're cracking down on. She will be able to send no more than 2 to other teachers rooms. She will not be able to bribe kids with candy or toys. If she doesn't finish the lesson for any class, she gets paddled herself -- 10 spanks for every unfinished lesson. Of course, I would set up the computer so that she can take roll without a glitch as we want a pure test. But she would have to get thru roll herself. Since I have no seating chart most of the time, she can either make her own or trust to luck that she's named the right disruptive kid during the lesson. (Extra spanks if she hasn't I promise not to laugh while she "teaches". I also promise not to give her too many blisters when I apply the paddle at the end of the day.

Remember, when I went to school the paddle was an option in every school I went to. (6 by 12th grade). I got 1 spank 1 time for doing something dangerous. Most kids went thru without even that. While I concede that a fewof the teachers back then WERE paddle-happy, this was not the vast majority. I have had things thrown at me, been cursed out regularly, & been threatened & I teach in the good part of the district. The paddle wasn't used that much, but the threat of the paddle worked wonders.
Give me 2 months, a paddle, a hold harmless for the low-grade morons who are suit-happy & grades will sky-rocket. Homework however, except in maths will be lots less & even in maths would be somewhat less. The 1 valuable thing we have gotten out of this dumbass experiment in permissiveness is that in a colossal futile effort to try to make things as interesting as talking to their friends, we now have more modalities in use to put learning across. Other than that it's been an enormous & absolutely foreseeable failure. I REALLY wish I could do that test with the people who with earnest good intent have set education back 50 years.
SevIsPamprinYouAlways · 56-60, F
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SevIsPamprinYouAlways · 56-60, F
nickir · M
Sit in on a class in a public school. Not a cherry-picked class like AP or honors, but an average class of 6-12th graders at an average school. Make sure that the teacher is not walking around overseeing whether they're working at the assignment because she shouldn't have to & because it doesn't do much good anyway.
Not to mention the fact that we still have a huge dropout rate, even with the curriculum & tests dumbed down.
SevIsPamprinYouAlways · 56-60, F
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