Posted on 10/08/2008 10:12:10 AM PDT by prolifefirst
According to my father, the best day of my parents life was the day I got my driver’s license. They could finally get some sleep.
The appropriateness of corporal punishment for misbehavior is a completely different argument than this case.
You still don’t get it. This wasn’t punishment.
He was getting beat because he didn’t perform in a sport the way a coach who couldn’t get a job in the real world. The coach should have gotten the S&*9 kicked out of him.
What I’m saying is that extreme and strange measures might be required in the ghettos of Chicago.
I realize it was a 17-year-old who was paddled severly for not doing volleyball serves properly. I realize this this probably isn’t the right way. I also realize that I don’t know what the answer is for an environment where all but the most spartan dicsipline has broken down, and am not ready to discount corporal coercion as a possible part of a solution.
Hopefully the main idea wasn’t to get better volleyball serves but to get a very disciplined young man who would be a success in life despite growing up in a ghetto.
>>I realize it was a 17-year-old who was paddled severly for not doing volleyball serves properly. I realize this this probably isn’t the right way.
No, it is never, never the right way. You don’t beat a kid because you don’t like how he performed with regard to a sport.
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