Posted on 04/06/2007 5:18:38 AM PDT by Ellesu
My teacher had “The big ears”. I still remember them 30 years later. They were large plastice ears that go over your own that stuck out dramatically and made you look like Dumbo.
My 6th grade teacher slapped my face for talking to the girl seated in front of me. It wasn’t called child abuse back then.
It was child abuse, it just wasn’t called that.
If a teacher slapped my child or grand child, I would personally slap her/him, even if it meant arrest for me.
I like her style. When I was little the old ladies on the street in back of mine used to throw clothespins at Norman Greenbaum for playing his guitar too loud on the back porch.
I sort of laughed. I could see the kids pretending they were ducks or something. Lots of clothespins are pretty wimpy and while they may be uncomfortable, they don’t hurt.
she slapped you? oh that’s absolutely abuse!
there is no excuse for that.
Maybe they didnt like his music. He was a one-hit wonder, wasnt he?
Todays teachers can thank the legions of abusers and freaks that were ‘teachers’ in years past. IMO those bad memories cause todays parents to lash out at teachers & can't say as I blame them..
Child abuse? I don’t know about that.
I’m a big believer in corporal punishment in schools, and I think one of the reasons why, in a lot of schools, teachers can’t seem to get control of their classrooms.
I went to a Jesuit school, and you better believe that there was corporal punishment, and it simply worked.
Some time ago, my young wife, who is a scientist (and not a teacher) decided that in some of her free time, she would volunteer as a substitute science teacher at the local middle school. She was excited about this prospect, and I shared with her my belief in corporal punishment in schools. She was flabbergasted and of course told me I was wrong and outrageous and whatnot.
From almost the first day, her biggest complaint was that she had no control over the students and no way to discipline them. They were rude, obnoxious, and made sexually suggestive comments to her. Her efforts to scold them were utterly fruitless. Around the time that she quit, she remarked to me that she thought I was right, and the school system was absolute chaos.
Did this teacher think it was the 1950’s when abuse like this was common and accepted? Crazy person. Get with the times. The incredible Abuses of the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s are no longer accepted.
And the schools have become hell holes. I'd rather have the old methods back, they worked.
Abuse is never the right couse of action regardless of how bad kids have become. I bet if the internet was around then the stories we would have heard about during that generation would have been horrifying, but because it was done in secret nobody ever knew about it.
I’d knock this bitch on her ass
A paddling is not abuse. When we gave the teachers the ability to corporally discipline the kids we had better education. Now we just have day care centers where the kids can’t learn anything because the trouble makers can’t be fixed and can’t be excluded.
My teachers would put a piece of tape over the chatty kid’s mouth. That shut them up.
Why is this even a story? Didn’t hurt the kids and hopefully taught em a lesson..
Some parents are insane.
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