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Originally Posted by G-Benz
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.
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Boy, you had it easy then. Once you got home. My dad took the Principal's cane and started before he hauled me to the car by my ear. My offense was that I had a fight and stabbed someone in the arm with a pen. The principal nor my father was impressed by the fact that I won the fight and the pen didn't hit an artery.
I have seen kids that threaten to report their parents for abuse when they were warned that if they proceeded to holler and scream they would be grounded. And people wonder why there is a zero tolerance policy with the wonderful youth of the day.