Posted on 03/22/2008 9:56:03 AM PDT by zimfam007
A nurse at a leading independent girls school was sacked after smacking her 10 year old son at home because he swore at her.
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I can’t remember when I entered this social twilight zone. Can someone show me the exit?
The U.K. has become so PC they are close to becoming a totally retarded country.
In my house,,,,if my son DARED to swear at me, not only would he have gotten a smack, but,,,he would have sat on the couch for 1/2 hour with a bar of soap in his mouth.....works like a charm.
Don’t dare discipline the litte dears.....my sister in law once spanked her daughter to which her daughter replied “I’m going to report you to the police”. Her mother replied “Here’s the phone”. End of that story.....
"We were held for 32 hours. I was questioned for an hour and a half and my husband for four hours," Mrs Pope said.
I'm speechless.
It is essentially illegal in the USA to use corporeal punishment as a form of discipline of your child. You will go to jail and be charged with domestic violence if the young sh*t calls the cops. Only our omniscient beneficent nanny knows how to correct the ways of a wayward child. Welcome to the Demo-PC nightmare. We have ceded control of our kids to Mrs. Hillary Hussein Mao Hugo Nancy Boxer.
If she had only robbed a bank, the teacher’s union probably would have stood up for her and kept her from being fired.
He was arrested that night, spent the night in jail, and ultimately spent over $7,000 in attorneys fees to get cleared of all charges. His daughter and son were put into "protective" custody for a couple of weeks while the family was investigated.
After seeing what was happening to her family, the girl ultimately told authorities that he had NOT struck her, but rather did the right thing in trying to keep her from driving while she was so angry. But the investigation and legal proceedings kept going on. What a tragedy. This family suffered greatly at the hands of the local nanny state.
“my sister in law once spanked her daughter to which her daughter replied “I’m going to report you to the police”. Her mother replied “Here’s the phone”. End of that story.....”
LOL Been there and done that, a couple of times.
Had I sworn at my mother, I would have been bed ridden for a while.
We lived with our parents and grandparents. My grandfather had what we called “The Strap.” A long piece of leather in the bathroom he would use to sharpen his straight razor. On more than 1 occasion my father brought that belt out of the bathroom and introduced our butts to it. My brother more than I. I think I got the female discount.
Glad to see the Brits are keeping these proud traditions alive. /sarc
Looks like social decay in Britain is pretty advanced. A mother smacks one son for swearing at her and another son gets her fired by turning her in to the school authorities.
Now she doesn’t have a job. How pathetic that there’s so little concern for family ties in the great socialist experience of Great Britain post-WWII.
Decay is change too, right?
Yours truly,
The Woim
Not at all true where I live, unless there's an actual injury. Curious how you use profanity to refer to (your?) child?
The family also suffered from the action of a child (Daughter) who had been harangued into thinking her parents had no rights and that she was entitled and free to do as she pleased with no responsibility or repercussions. As well, probably trained to ‘Question Authority’, especially when the Athority was standing in the way of anything she wanted.
In my parents house, if you swore at Momma you got a lot more than just a smacking.
Other than condoms and cucumbers, kids today are taught from the earliest days in school to report their parents for any and all “percieved infractions” of letting the kid run rampant.
No discipline. No consequences for their actions.
Glad I never had any kids.
Good point.
I was not referring to my child. Rather, I was referring to a hypothetical (but all too real) child who would think (in the heat of an adolescent temper tantrum) that it’s OK to call the cops because s/he was mad about being disciplined.
And, technically, it’s not illegal to spank a child where I live either. It’s just that if the cops get involved, the burden of proof is on the parent.
Don’t think for one moment that kids (oh, say 10 years and up) don’t know they can put their parents in a real bind by calling the police or reporting justified discipline to an authority figure like a school nurse.
I’ve handled several cases like these. The kid calls the cops, the cops arrest the parent, the kid becomes contrite, the kid refuses to testify against the “offending” parent, the DA or Solicitor tries to use the cops testimony, and the whole thing gets thrown out of court because of hearsay violations and affronts to the confrontation clause of the sixth amendment.
My point was to try to show the inexorable emergence of a nanny state.
Are you still curious, Steve?
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