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What kind of corporal punishment, if any, should be allowed in public schools?

What kind of corporal punishment, if any, should be allowed in public schools?

  • Paddling over the clothing

    Votes: 8 21.6%

  • Leather strapping over clothing

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Paddling on the bare

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • leather strapping on the bare

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • caning over clothing

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • caning on the bare

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • birching on the bare

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • cat of nine tails on the bare

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • all of the above

    Votes: 2 5.4%

  • none of the above -- corporal punishment should be banned

    Votes: 25 67.6%
  • Total voters
    37
Luna Tick

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What kind of corporal punishment, if any, should be allowed in public schools?

So there you have it. They had spanking in the schools I attended. I have mixed feelings about it because I developed an erotic appreciation for it and won't date a man unless he's willing to spank me. True story.
 
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Luna Tick said:
What kind of corporal punishment, if any, should be allowed in public schools?
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None.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to discipline my own children. I don't need someone at the school spanking my children or striking them in any way. There is too much that could go wrong and sorry, but it's my job. I'm the parent, they are not.

If my kids do something bad enough that warrants them getting sent to the administrators office, then I should be called and I will handle it. My kids will pay the consequences of whatever it is they've done, but corporal punishment from a school official?

Nope. Sorry.
 
hitting children is how inadequate adults cope with their own shortcomings. and besides all that, it doesn't even work. so of course it should be banned.
 
I don't want to give any teacher the power to decide how hard is hard enough or when it is proper to use these things.
 
TheGirlNextDoor said:
None.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to discipline my own children. I don't need someone at the school spanking my children or striking them in any way. There is too much that could go wrong and sorry, but it's my job. I'm the parent, they are not.

If my kids do something bad enough that warrants them getting sent to the administrators office, then I should be called and I will handle it. My kids will pay the consequences of whatever it is they've done, but corporal punishment from a school official?

Nope. Sorry.
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I agree, I like other forms of punishment like detention and stuff, but corporal is unnecessary.

Though I live in Texas, I am fortunate enough to have never been a victim of corporal punishment, but I used to hear people talk about casually in high school.

I don't like it.
 
Luna Tick said:
What kind of corporal punishment, if any, should be allowed in public schools?
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None. It's the parent's responsibility to physically discipline their children.

So there you have it. They had spanking in the schools I attended. I have mixed feelings about it because I developed an erotic appreciation for it and won't date a man unless he's willing to spank me. True story.
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Damn!
 
Luna Tick said:
What kind of corporal punishment, if any, should be allowed in public schools?

So there you have it. They had spanking in the schools I attended. I have mixed feelings about it because I developed an erotic appreciation for it and won't date a man unless he's willing to spank me. True story.
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Yeah.. we could have gone without that last bit there... but thanks for sharing. :roll: Want to know where my fondness for handcuffs came from?

Didn't think so.
 
Luna Tick said:
I have mixed feelings about it because I developed an erotic appreciation for it and won't date a man unless he's willing to spank me. True story.
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How you doin' ? :cool:
 
hitting children is how inadequate adults cope with their own shortcomings. and besides all that, it doesn't even work. so of course it should be banned.
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You're right. It doesn't work. In high school there was a coach I was secretly attracted to. I used to deliberately do something so that he would spank me. Ironically, the punishment was causing the behavior it was supposed to stop. But then it really sucked if I ended up getting it from someone else. And even if I got it from him, I hated it when it was happening. It only turned me on later on when I fantasized about it. I guess I'm pretty f###ed up sexually thanks to spanking, so I'm against spanking in schools, but am fine with it happening between consenting adults.

Yeah.. we could have gone without that last bit there... but thanks for sharing. Want to know where my fondness for handcuffs came from?

Didn't think so.
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Actually, I would be all right knowing that just because I think it's interesting, but, of course, it's totally up to you if you're comfortable sharing it. I never developed any kind of thrill from handcuffs or being tied up, but I know plenty of people who are into that.
 
Since my kid is grown and flown the coop, I did not vote. I know when I was in grade school there was spanking with a paddle. By reading the posts, it seems all are responsible parents. My brother was a teacher for over 30 years. I heard stories from him of kids that were a real pain. One problem was the parents would do nothing to correct the behavior.

My question is what should be done if the parents won't address the problem?
 
There are some children who never recieve any discipline at home.
So what to do?
Kick him out and send him to the streets and then to prison?
Maybe that is where his patents should be sent, if not already there.
Or send him to a special school where he will recieve love and discipline??.
As a man can see, this is becomming an expensive proprosition...
The parents and teachers must be taught how to discipline somewhere the line..
BTW, do not even think that discipline is torture. This must be done by those who love and respect the children, not hate them.
 
niftydrifty said:
hitting children is how inadequate adults cope with their own shortcomings. and besides all that, it doesn't even work. so of course it should be banned.
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We are all "inadequate", none of us are perfect, or even close.
The child misbevaves, he is called out.
He mis-behaves again and is paddled.
The paddling shows that the teacher cares,in the long term, the child prefers a teacher who cares..
Then the parents are informed by the teacher that evening....and we find out if the child has any parents..
Some do not...a reason for protective services...
As to "not working", this is most debatable, it is NOT a fact..
As I say discipline must be taught.
 
I got paddled for the first time in Kindergarten for throwing rocks. I ended up getting swats every year I was in school. Once you hit junior high or so, they would usually give you the option of either taking swats or detention. What kind of a ***** would take detention instead of 3 swats?

My point is that I don't think it works that well as a punishment. It works OK in elementary school, but once you hit 12 or so it kind of loses its effectiveness. I think the choice of whether you should paddle in school should be left up to the local school board, and then the individual parents whether they want their kid to be paddled or not. I am not sure what is wrong with that system.
 
There are some teachers out there I wouldn't want to have that kind of power so I am absolutely against it. I also think there are better techniques to punish children that don't include barbaric things.
 
pro-bipartisan said:
There are some teachers out there I wouldn't want to have that kind of power so I am absolutely against it. I also think there are better techniques to punish children that don't include barbaric things.
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I agree. For younger kids there are timeouts. Even older kids can be removed from the classroom they're disrupting. There are after school and Saturday detentions. For more extreme cases there are suspensions and expulsions.
 
Luna Tick said:
What kind of corporal punishment, if any, should be allowed in public schools?
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I say a simple Paddling over the clothing as long as the parents authorize it up until half way through middle school.


So there you have it. They had spanking in the schools I attended. I have mixed feelings about it because I developed an erotic appreciation for it and won't date a man unless he's willing to spank me. True story.
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So if the guy paddling you looked like the below picture then it would have been a punishment for you?

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I think if I had a teacher that looked like this I would have been getting into trouble all the time.
 

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TheGirlNextDoor said:
None.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to discipline my own children. I don't need someone at the school spanking my children or striking them in any way. There is too much that could go wrong and sorry, but it's my job. I'm the parent, they are not.

If my kids do something bad enough that warrants them getting sent to the administrators office, then I should be called and I will handle it. My kids will pay the consequences of whatever it is they've done, but corporal punishment from a school official?

Nope. Sorry.
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It's mutually exclusive, you can spank them too when they get home if you like. :lol:
 
For a certain segment of the population, the only thing they can understand is a good whipping......;)
 
I have three kids and they all respond differently to punishment.

1. The oldest never responded to spankings, in fact I am still trying to figure out a punishment that sticks with him.

2. The middle just gets angry and tries to attack anyone who spanks him, but if you threaten to throw away a toy, he behaves immediately.

3. The youngest will behave if I so much as give her a mean look or lower my voice.

The point is that because everyone responds differently, allowing corporal punishment is not always the best way to fix problem behavior. For some kids it will work, for some it won't. However, a school would likely be required to give certain punishments for certain behaviors and the effectiveness of the punishment will vary from student to student. The end result is that ideally it should be up to the parent to devise the correct punishment for the child since the parent is usually in the best position to know what works to make that child behave.

The reality though is that many parents suck at their job, which I think is the biggest source for our problems at schools. The fact that teachers are restrained from doing their job due to red tape is the second biggest problem, but that's another thread.
 
None.

I don't trust those goonion morons to do the job right.

I'll decide if my child needs beating, and I'll do the job myself.

(For some reason, since they're brains aren't located in their asses, I find it more efficatious to reach their brains via their ears and eyes. So I have kids that listen to what I say.)
 
Seriously, if the parents were taking care of business at home to begin with, the child probably wouldn't be misbehaving in the first place. I went to a private school, corporal punishment was not only given as a last resort, but you couldn't send your kid there if you didn't give written permission for it to happen. There were two levels, the basic swat on the hand with a ruler thing and the full blown paddle to the backside. While I never went through the latter, there was a time or two that I got the hand-swat and you know something? I learned not to do whatever it was that got me hit. For people who got paddled, I don't remember anyone ever getting it twice.

There are far too many parents who let their kids run wild today without any discipline. Sometimes, for extreme measures, a kid might need a non-damaging whack in the butt. It builds character.
 
niftydrifty said:
hitting children is how inadequate adults cope with their own shortcomings. and besides all that, it doesn't even work. so of course it should be banned.
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Utter nonsense. It works consistently with most children, if applied correctly as one part of an overall discipline methodology.
 
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