Do you think corporal punishment should be reinstated in schools?
Why or why not?
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MaryJanine · 61-69, F
No. It used to be allowed when my parents were in school, but it was abolished about 1950's - and none too soon.
Corporal punishment (spankings) are the parent's job - no one else's. I've seen far too many of these newsreels where a kid is spanked (by hand or an instrument)and then dragged all over creation. Said kid is screaming in agony and pain, and teacher/administrator is standing over him/her, sometimes hanging on to a leg or arm and screaming back louder. This is a national disgrace!
We are trying to eliminate child abuse. What kind of a example are we setting for the next generation who often watch the news with Mom or Dad and sees such violence? There's been an increase in DCFS investigations where the kid is dying or dead. This should not be.
Punish if you wish, teachers - but there are other ways to go about it. You don't like to be cuffed around - so how do you think a kid feels?
Corporal punishment (spankings) are the parent's job - no one else's. I've seen far too many of these newsreels where a kid is spanked (by hand or an instrument)and then dragged all over creation. Said kid is screaming in agony and pain, and teacher/administrator is standing over him/her, sometimes hanging on to a leg or arm and screaming back louder. This is a national disgrace!
We are trying to eliminate child abuse. What kind of a example are we setting for the next generation who often watch the news with Mom or Dad and sees such violence? There's been an increase in DCFS investigations where the kid is dying or dead. This should not be.
Punish if you wish, teachers - but there are other ways to go about it. You don't like to be cuffed around - so how do you think a kid feels?
@MaryJanine Are in England or somewhere, because corporal punishment was alive and well when I was in high school, and they would make that board whistle~! All they had to do was have another teacher witness. Kids got licks every day in my high school. That was the latter 70's.
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
I am in America. When my parents were in school, corporal punishment was allowed (often with the kids getting another spanking at home). This was late 30's, early 40's. Between the time they left school, married, and had children, the rules were changed (about 1950) and the corporal punishment was abolished - at least in Chicago public schools. This rule was well established by the time I started school (1960). But it didn't stop the teachers from humiliating the kids in front of the class by hauling the student (usually for gum chewing) to the front of the room and making them stand there. One substitute teacher we had did just that to a 17-year-old senior, left her there, then came back to her and asked, "Have you been spanked lately?"
@MaryJanine Parents and teachers both did this country a great dis-service by slowing or stopping corporal punishment. If you don't use corporal punishment on a child who earns it, you hate that child, because it is the worst thing you can do to a kid not to apply the rod.
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
My mother raised four kids. She and Dad agreed that it was THEIR job - and nobody else's - to spank us.
Teachers - virtual strangers to kids - should not be allowed to spank. Most of them don't know their own strength, or don't know where spankings end and beatings begin. Did you read my post to someone else about the Ohio honor student who got into a fight with some other kid? The aggressor got suspended and they gave the Ohio girl a choice of a three-day suspension or a paddling. This particular girl was carrying a double class load and didn't want to miss three days. She chose the paddle. The administrator hit her once - just once -
but so hard she had a huge blood blister across her bottom that lasted for months. Had that happened to one of us, my mother would've had them in COURT. She swore she'd KILL ANY TEACHER who laid a hand on her kids.
If you feel a kid needs to be spanked, send home a note and let the PARENTS
DO IT. I have seen an upsweep lately in abuse where the teachers are still permitted to spank kids. The younger the kid is, the more traumatic it can be for him or her. And the dragging and scraping across the floors is on the increase. too. Again, the kid has probably already been spanked in addition to this treatment. I wouldn't treat someone's DOG that way.
Teachers - virtual strangers to kids - should not be allowed to spank. Most of them don't know their own strength, or don't know where spankings end and beatings begin. Did you read my post to someone else about the Ohio honor student who got into a fight with some other kid? The aggressor got suspended and they gave the Ohio girl a choice of a three-day suspension or a paddling. This particular girl was carrying a double class load and didn't want to miss three days. She chose the paddle. The administrator hit her once - just once -
but so hard she had a huge blood blister across her bottom that lasted for months. Had that happened to one of us, my mother would've had them in COURT. She swore she'd KILL ANY TEACHER who laid a hand on her kids.
If you feel a kid needs to be spanked, send home a note and let the PARENTS
DO IT. I have seen an upsweep lately in abuse where the teachers are still permitted to spank kids. The younger the kid is, the more traumatic it can be for him or her. And the dragging and scraping across the floors is on the increase. too. Again, the kid has probably already been spanked in addition to this treatment. I wouldn't treat someone's DOG that way.
@MaryJanine I can grok this. That would be perfectly acceptable as far as I'm concerned, but the reason there is so much douchebaggery these days is because a generation and a half didn't get any healthy trips to the woodshed. It couldn't be more obvious. There are a lot more contributing factors, like substance abuse and single parents .... or absentee parents. There are a lot more lousy lying pieces of shit than there use to be, and that is because kids weren't raised right.
MaryJanine · 61-69, F
I get where you're coming from. But what category do you fit the parents into who either kill (or contribute to the death of)the kids and then get their 15 minutes of fame in front of the TV cameras, claiming their children were kidnapped, only to find them dead the next day and then later confess what they did? We had two such cases within a few days of each other in Chicago (my home town) and, in each case, a DCFS worker was investigating the parents and family for suspected abuse. The one little girl was found under the couch, and the little boy was found under similar circumstances.