Most of my generation was raised just the opposite: get a spanking at school, and get another one at home.
OTOH, the ones I went to school with who had parents with your attitude were the worst little B*****Ds in the school. And those parents were usually quite liberal.
How the times do change.
Concur.
The response by the school if not allowed to enforce their authority are the asinine zero tolerance policies.
Two kids found in a fight where one is defending themselves from a bully and they both get suspended. Ergo, the kids a forced into joining gangs out of self defense.
Spare the rod, Spoil the child.
Neither of my parents (born in 1942 and 1954) were spanked. It wasn’t common in all families “back then.”
We all turned out just fine without our parents hitting us.
Well, I do think my mom hit me once (barely), in the heat of the moment, when I did something dangerous. It wasn’t a pre-mediated action. Which I think is the worst — parents who tell the kids they are going to have a spanking/beating/whatever, calmly sit them down, dole it out, etc. I truly can’t understand that, but I guess it’s just some sort of cultural difference.
I would wager most lefties running loose nowadays didn’t get the ass-tanning they so richly reserved when they were kids...