Hmmm i just heard that if you get paddled at school you can sue for assault and battery, ha, when the heck did that happen ??? i was always getting paddled Peace
Corporal punishment has not been allowed in school for many years. If anyone touched my children, I would rip their throat out.
Of course, you caught me out. I firmly believe that other people should not hit my children but that I can clobber them just because I can. After all, studies support that hitting them will leave them well rounded and respecting authority. In fact I just cut a new switch today, just in case I need it.
I was just going by the laws from when I was in elementary school. (Considering I'm only 18-it wasn't really that long ago.) I don't agree with corporal punishment in school but I'll be damned if someone's gonna tell me I can't discipline my children-if I ever decide to have kids-the way I see fit. I mean, I'm not condoning beating your children or anything, but sometimes a firm hand is all they need. I help raise my cousins and I know without a doubt a time out just doesn't cut it sometimes.
Amazing how U.S. hockey players can whack the living crap out of each other's heads with wooden sticks without getting charged with assault. Seems like a hockey rink has some sort of immunity from prosecution thing. As far as schools go, the teachers don't want to even put a hand on a student out of fear of legal action. Often times the parents aren't available when something goes wrong at school because they are working or they are separated. The school then relies on the police or rent-a-cop security people. Recall that case in Florida where three cops came in and handcuffed the kindergarten girl who was acting up. .
Kindergarten? Wow. that is seriously messed up. It just seems like the world is getting more ridiculous by the minute. Well, the US at least.
Things are getting strange. Attend one of those tradeshows for law enforcement. You'll see just about every type of gadget you could imagine for controlling people's behavior (straps, chains, gas sprays, bright blinding lights, shock bombs, odors, sticky goop squirted onto people, tasers, modern straight jackets, etc). Behavioral control through technology is the rage right now in the U.S. That's half of it. The other half is the array of deceptive psychological tactics that politicians and other people of authority use on the general public to get people to basically impose a prison onto themselves without having to resort to technological gadgets. The psychological tactics are more devious and esoteric than the technical ones. .
I never got the paddle...we had this thing this called "the strap"...they would just threaten and never had the balls to use it ...usually just ended up with a suspension for a few days...I do remember a few suspensions that lasted weeks though
I went to an elementary school that practiced group punishment. If someone at your table talked in the lunchroom, everybody at the table got their ass beat.
True. When I was taking sailing lessons, there was a paddle in the boat in case the wind died. The young woman instructor held up the paddle and asked us if anyone knew what the paddle was for? I replied, "For spanking students who screw up their sailing lesson." .