09-21-2013, 07:52 PM
You know, back in the stone ages when I was in school, it was nothing unusual for a kid, including me, to get "Licks" For being an asshole. Now mind you we did not have drugs, gangs, teacher pedophiles, teachers and students getting raped, any of that at least where I was. Now days no school that I know of is allowed to use "Corporal Punishment". It didn't kill us, it didn't mark us or cause any emotional scars. What it did do was to teach us at least a modicum of respect for our elders and those in an authority position, not in my mind a bad thing. It didn't stop us from being assholes, but it kept us normal kids mostly in line and kept the most egregious ones more or less on a leash.
Now, no corporal punishment, kids are sent home with a note, mom and dad apparently accept responsibility for disciplining their little snowflake by taking away their Nintendo for a couple hours, which is to say nothing at all. The kids don't learn shit.
I think kids should earn stripes for their deeds, on the sleeve for good ones and on their ass for bas ones.
Now, no corporal punishment, kids are sent home with a note, mom and dad apparently accept responsibility for disciplining their little snowflake by taking away their Nintendo for a couple hours, which is to say nothing at all. The kids don't learn shit.
I think kids should earn stripes for their deeds, on the sleeve for good ones and on their ass for bas ones.