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Originally Posted by aklim
The problem is that the parents don't have the ability to discipline the kids. They run rampant. So, how much can an institute tolerate? If they start out with 1% sooner or later it will become a battleground because the parents cannot and willnot discipline the kids. I knew that when I screwed up, my instructors would give me a swat. Too many swats and I would go to the principal's office for a few swats. If that didn't work, I would be publically swatted in front of all my peers. That was if I was lucky. If Dad got involved, well..........
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Because of child abuse laws, you can't just go and haul off on your kids when they do something wrong! Heck YEAH, back when I was a attending a Catholic elementary school, the nuns had no qualms whooping your butt with a well-placed ruler (or the "Teacher Edition" geography book for the stouter of us). After that, the infraction got escalated to the principal, who then notified your parents. The beatings would continue once you got home!
It was certainly more of a motivation to tow the line than "groundings" or "time-outs", (though after the beatings, grounding followed).
Nowadays, ALL of us are forced to seek more pacifying methods of discipline, and the more errant of the youth population simply scoffs at what are generally pathetic attempts to enforce order. Teachers and administrators have no legal recourse to inflict corporal punishment for infractions, so the alternative is suspension or expulsion. Sure, it's extreme, but it then lays responsibility to the parents to come up with a course of action.