You know what would solve the problem? Reintroduce corporol punishment in schools.
When I was young my grandmothr used to tell me stories of how the teachers would take the delinquent students out back to the shed and beat the living crap out of them.
I know it probably wouldn’t pass in todays leftist public school system, but its a nice thought anyway.
Maybe in some mythical past time, I might have been OK with some public school administration bureaucrat/NEA member laying a hand on my child to correct his behavior/attitude. That time is, unfortunately, long since gone.
Oddly, I attended private secondary schools where the behavior problems were few and far between, and I don't recall any of the sutdents being beaten.
I suspect it wouldn’t pass with a lot of conservatives either, because parents and parents and many of them think the other kids need it but theirs don’t.
susie
Reintroduce corporol punishment in schools.
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I am afraid that is much too simplistic. In your grandmother’s day, the parents would have backed up the paddle-wielding teacher. Today, 99% of the time, the parents of the delinquents approve of such horrid behavior in their offspring and would probably take a swing at the teacher themselves.
The problem starts in the home, and many parents — at all income levels — do not take the time to properly socialize their children.
How many children in the U.S. attend public school? How many instances of this behavior occur throughout the U.S. in public schools? How many people are assaulted on city streets in the U.S. compared to the number of teachers who are assaulted in public schools? Should we abandon our city streets too while we are at it?
How many of these teacher assaults occurred during each previous decade going back the last 30 or 40 years or more? Are things really getting worse, or has the advent of 24 hour news cycles and readily available video recording devices made for such incidents to become much more widely reported over the course of the past 10 to 15 years. People making “knee jerk” “emotional” comments about such incidents adds little to the debate.
I remember in the seventh grade Bobby C was shooting spitwads in Mr. Isler’s class. Mr. Isler grabbed Bobby by the shirt collar and literally kicked him to the door. He took him down to the principal’s office and whipped him so hard Bobby cussed and ran out. We didn’t see him for two or three days. I thought it was great. (This would have been around 1963/64)
They had an inkwell on each desh back then, too. So if we bring back inkwells, the schools would be much more orderly, also.
If you reintroduce corporal punishment in schools you had better have an army of lawyers handy to defend the policy because the district will be sued right and left.
And it would only work with younger kids.Let me tell you from experience,if you lay a hand on any of the”boyz in the hood”you had better be strapped or a karate expert because,in their words,”we ain’t having that”
All that being said,I got few swats from the VP paddle and whacked across the hand with rulers but that was back in the 1954-1964 era.
A whole lot has changed since then.
“You know what would solve the problem? Reintroduce corporol punishment in schools.”
In the high schools? The kids in question are hoodlums. I doubt that a spanking is going to do much. Unless, of course, the spanking is administered with a 2 by 4.
Only if "corporal punishment" includes shooting or hanging some of the more obnoxious "Administrators", "Teachers" and "Students and their parents"..
It is CLEARLY beyond all available remedies to repair the Pubic Skool "system" - I fear it is lost forever.
The problems has gone FAR beyond corporal punishment -- there are fire breathing felons and psychopaths in our "Pubic Skools"......among the students and faculty.
Pubic intended.