[Sir Gawain]

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[tutstar]

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[TomGuy]

When I was a kid, growing up in the 50's and 60's, I didn't worry about the paddling I might get at school. I worried about that one I knew I'd get when I got home, after my parents found out I got/needed one at school. Yes, it was a definite deterrent to any bad behavior at school.

[Ol' Sparky]

Corporal punishment in schools is a good idea. Government-run schools are a bad idea.

[sandydipper]

Spare the rod - spoil the child! It was true in the 1700's and it's still true today.

[maxwell]

This entire article is a mishmash of sob-story anecdotes. Why not just come out and say, "I don't believe in corporal punishment because I've had sucky experiences with it." Geezus.

"Okay so I don't have kids of my own"

Okay another ditzy dame...
I don't got no anklebiters either but I know what a hellraiser I was when I was young enough to hold down, and I for damn sure deserved every a$$-whack I got. Any kid o' mine is going to get the almighty devil beaten outta him when occasion dictates. That's the only way most kids learn.

Every anti-spanker I've met seems to have one of the following rationales:
1. History of abuse in immediate family.
2. Some liberal hoity-toity white-linen idea that inflicting pain to get your point across is uncouth, violent and primitive.
3. "Spanking??! What kind of kinky b@st@rd ARE you! [SMACK]" ;)

[scholar]

No whuppins at any school will instill in any child the values that parents fail to teach or teach properly.

I think this is the crux of the issue--a child who has had no discipline, and has learned no respect for authority at home, will only become angry and more rebellious if they receive corporal punishment at school.

My kids went to a Christian school where it was understood they could receive at rap on the behind, but they had already been raised with the concept of consequences for bad behavior.

As for government schools, we can't trust them to teach the basic 3R's, much less dispense appropriate discipline.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

NO SPANKING--HIGH CRIME RATE!

[mrfixit514]

Discipline begins at home. Respect for authority begins at home. The knowledge of right and wrong begins at home. Instruction about the value of a good education begins at home. In fact, life begins at home!

Amen Sister! Preach it! Best wisdom I have seen on FR in quite a while