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To: prolifefirst
But a paddling by his coach last April for missing serves during a game -- a "whupping" that left welts on the 17-year-old -- changed that.

A coach has no business striking any of his players in the first place, but for missing serves? And paddling a 17 year old? Bizarre.
22 posted on 10/08/2008 10:59:48 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek; job

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.


25 posted on 10/08/2008 1:25:39 PM PDT by prolifefirst
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