Like most policies, I always try to ask “compared to what”?
A better way to describe what I’m getting at isn’t old-school paddlings per-se, but empowering teachers and administrators to control children, including using reasonable force. The complete lack of physical consequences seems to be far more detrimental to far more children in my school district.
The threat of a teacher telling my football and wrestling coaches I wasn’t acting right in class was scarier than mom telling me to wait until my father got home.
Being grabbed and called a “little shit” by my normally mild-mannered math teacher was helpful, in hindsight. He was absolutely correct. Same with a few other little dust-ups with teachers and coaches over the years.
Here’s the “Studies Say” crowd suggesting a completely insane alternative to Indiana’s reasonable corporal punishment policy. It has been illegal in Maine since 1977, which worked pretty great for the most part until fairly recently. Now we have a bit of a problem. Shit gets out of hand in a lot of ways quite often.
It sure worked as planned in the ‘50’s and early ‘60’s. But our society is too far gone that it could be productive as it was when I grew up.
There was absolutely no one to appeal to you feeling that you were unfairly being punished physically. The deterrent worked. All classrooms had total order. Learning was never hampered by disruptive class members for more than a couple minutes.
But along came Dr Spock with his book in the late 1940’s. The younger parents began accepting his approach to parenting and by the mid 1960’s children had some parents and educators to sympathize with their appeal for no corporal punishment. A few quickly became many. By the turn of the century the number became most people.
Basically, we need to take a look at how shit got handled back in the 80’s. I’d volunteer part time to rough up some kids, even if I’m no Louis Gossett, Jr.
That was my experience and it is completely tragic that we rob it from so many kids.
Life would be better if a damn Apple wasn’t consumed. Removing the potential for bad decisions is describing heaven, no?
The problem with this is that it’s based on the belief that ‘if only people had access to good things, they’d make the right decisions and be happy’.
You might as well put a bullet in their skulls.
Sad, isn’t it
The world would be better if there were no religious faith
You’d be okay with a stranger hitting your kids?
The same stragers that also try to brainwash them into using pronouns?
I think parents using corporal punishment for their kids, when appropriate, is okay. But I’ll beat a motherfucker if they ever think it’s okay to put hands on my daughter.
*this is a gender neutral statement. Equal rights and equal lefts.
All it takes is one “harder Daddy” comment to end a principals career. Don’t go playing slapass unless you trying to PLAY SLAPASS.
Hitting? Yes, as described above in Indianas policy. If he, say, attacked a teacher and caught a fist to his face when he was a 6’1” 190lb 16 year old athlete, I would be apologizing to the teacher.
That’s the kind of stuff happening in my district. It is out of hand.
Beatings, no.
Interesting way of phrasing this, was that intentional - ‘religious faith’?
Zoning laws are idiotic
Weird position regarding tech:
Companies should have to quantify significant improvements before releasing new versions of the same thing (coughApplecough).
More people should thrift/buy second hand versus buying new for many things.
There should be restrictions on what can be called a University (i.e. Keiser, Phoenix, etc are not “universities”).
Smart watches are dumb for anything other than fitness tracking and Garmin already cornered that market.
I am for guns but against AR-15 style firearms being sold to civilians. It just lets morons play “Tacticool” for the most part. And makes it so my kids have to practice lockdown drills in school.
Tests are a terrible way to test knowledge for elementary aged children. Teaching to pass the test is also extremely stupid but is tied to school funding (school funding should be independent of test scores or applied opposite of what it is now - obviously school with lower performing students need more resources).
Everyone should have to acquire their own food at least once in their life (either through working at a farm for a bit or hunting for it) to understand where it comes from and gain an appreciation for the crops/livestock.
The 40 hour work week is bullshit.
Let’s say your 16 year old son calls a woman a stupid bitch and her husband who happens to be there, gives him a smack in the mouth?
Is she?
She might be, but that’s her husband’s business.
Then he should keep her on a leash.
