So is the school also investigating the punk for attempted murder and grand theft?
The problem:
If we treat kids like prisoners, herd them into prison-like buildings, and provide insufficient adult supervision, we **will** see PRISON SOCIAL PATHOLOGY!
Fundamentally, I believe that our human ancestors, all 150,000 years of them, would be both amused and horrified that we treat children as cruelly as we do. I doubt that there is any documented account of any historical culture educating children as we do now. Even in my father's day, it was more likely that children attended extremely small one-room-schools of mixed aged children and they were finished by the 8th grade. The very idea of kindergarten did not exist. ( He was born in 1913.)
I've been going to the beach since I was an infant. As they say in Philly, “Down the shore!”. One day I was watching my children and the other children playing on the beach and it occurred to me that I had never, in more than 40 years, seen bullying on the beach among the elementary or middle school aged children, or experienced it myself. Why was that I wondered. I observed the following:
** There was more than enough adult supervision. Drowning is always a danger on a beach, and because of this there are enough adult eyes watching what is going on. I suspect that the children subconsciously know this.
** The older children were eager to teach the younger children the new skills they had mastered on a year or two before. One afternoon I watched a ten year old work with a 6 year old for literally the entire day on doing cartwheels. Geeze! That trashes the idea that children have short attention spans, or that children are only interested in their narrow age group.
** Mixed ages of children commonly played together. The most common range seemed to be within 4 years.
** When children were tired or hungry, they freely left the play group and took a rest.
** When younger children threw sand or accidentally stepped on a sand project, the older children gently taught them beach manners.
** Older children organized team games, and agreed upon rules. I concluded that the “real world” team skills and cooperation are learned in **PLAY** not in any hot house, school-created, and artificially created project.
Choking someone isn’t “inappropriate touching?”
Philosophically it is because the criminal is not responsible for his actions, he is a product of society or reacting to being dissed, the unforgivable sin, and is not rational- therefore blameless. It is rational to resist when attacked so that makes any harm to the attacker a product of a rational act, thus the resister deliberately harmed the person who "couldn't help it."
Practically, liberals fear a population that reacts against abuse because liberals are determined to be the Rulers and they will brook no opposition. They believe a totally passive population is required for a peaceful society that can be molded into Utopia. The only way they can get this totally passive society, however, or the nearest to it they can get, is in use of The Terror, not what is officially termed terrorism but classic Terror as deployed by Le Directoire during the French Revolution and by the USSR during most of the 206h century and by China and various other communist regimes.
Philosophically it is because the criminal is not responsible for his actions, he is a product of society or reacting to being dissed, the unforgivable sin and is not rational. It is rational to resist when attacked so that makes any harm to the attacker a product of a rational act, thus the resister deliberately harmed the person who "couldn't help it."
Practically, liberals fear a population that reacts against abuse because liberals are determined to be the Rulers and they will brook no opposition. They believe a totally passive population is required for a peaceful society that can be molded into Utopia. The only way they can get this totally passive society, however, or the nearest to it they can get, is in use of The Terror, not what is officially termed terrorism but classic Terror as deployed by the Le Directoire during the French Revolution and by the USSR during 70 years and by China.
Anyone who thinks a kick in the crotch has any sexual component has not had sex. Or even thought about sex.