Apparently paddling kids is an okay school punishment in Georgia

[8BitWonder]

FFS, Some of the comments on here - just prove to me that USA (the west) is now firmly turned into a poncy land of snowflakes and tree hugging namby pambies. God help you lot come WW3, it's not like playing on the xbox/playstation - some of you lot need to man up and get some testosterone injections as it seems you don't have any.

If you can't handle a few slaps - how will you be able to handle the harsh reality of war when the next one starts (probably in your lifetime). Grow up and grow a pair of balls FFS you girly mincers.

> Sees one school re-introducing paddling
> Hears a few people don't like it
> Determines the country is unfit for war
wut

On topic though; I don't think one school re-introducing the concept is going to make paddling catch on and spread again.
There were reasons paddling faded from schooling systems (even though it was still legal), and I'm sure with time GSIC will reconsider their decision.

 

[Lucifer666]

FFS, Some of the comments on here - just prove to me that USA (the west) is now firmly turned into a poncy land of snowflakes and tree hugging namby pambies. God help you lot come WW3, it's not like playing on the xbox/playstation - some of you lot need to man up and get some testosterone injections as it seems you don't have any.

If you can't handle a few slaps - how will you be able to handle the harsh reality of war when the next one starts (probably in your lifetime). Grow up and grow a pair of balls FFS you girly mincers.

Just WTF. This comment was a thrill of a ride from start to finish.

I had a really fun time imagining what you looked like while writing that and it inspired me to make an MS paint rendition of what just went down:

Edit: I realised quoted is British and not American after drawing it but point very much still stands. The simple fact is that kids going to school are, in fact, not at war. Go smell a flower or pet a cat or something.

 

[ChaosEternal]

Obama didn't get to put his final justice on the Supreme Court, and even if he had, Merrick Garland is nowhere near the extremist that Brett Kavanaugh is. You don't have to take my word for it, just watch the confirmation hearings. He's all but directly stated that he wants to repeal Roe v Wade and that we shouldn't have separation of church and state. Elect regressive leaders/judges and you have to expect regressive policy, they've never been subtle about their intentions.

Let's not be disingenuous about this, either. Trump can't really be compared with Obama or any other "normal" president. Of course the people suggesting Obama was going to take guns were nutters, he never stated anything like that. Trump OTOH did flat-out state that he wants to take guns without due process, yet he's given a pass because people know he's a fucking moron. The bar for Obama was far higher. For Trump it's below the lowest point of the ocean floor.

Well, I have no interest in getting into a long discussion about Kavanaugh, so all I will say is that I personally have seen little evidence that he would be anything but a qualified justice. Any further discussion would just be getting off-topic anyway. I will say that I believe that Garland should have had a hearing and that the maneuvering to prevent that was reprehensible.

 

[snails1221]

On one hand, I guess physical punishment could teach a child a lesson "quicker". On the other hand this could lead to them hating school/the teachers even more. Plus, it's 2018 and everyone and their mother has access to an AR-15 or similar at this point.

 

[Kioku]

ITT: People confusing disciplinary actions with physical abuse.

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On one hand, I guess physical punishment could teach a child a lesson "quicker". On the other hand this could lead to them hating school/the teachers even more. Plus, it's 2018 and everyone and their mother has access to an AR-15 or similar at this point.

It's a double edged blade. Physical discipline (ie Spanking) isn't so much the issue. There's a world of subsequent consequences that stem from this. It can breed fear rather Than respect. Hm..

 

[dAVID_]

what if the kid has a really high pain tolerance (or a really smart mouth or both) would make it sound like some BDSM shitty porno in the principals office

memorable quote

 

[Xzi]

Well, I have no interest in getting into a long discussion about Kavanaugh, so all I will say is that I personally have seen little evidence that he would be anything but a qualified justice. Any further discussion would just be getting off-topic anyway. I will say that I believe that Garland should have had a hearing and that the maneuvering to prevent that was reprehensible.

It is a bit off-topic, but the composition of the supreme court has a far-reaching impact that likely will include educational issues at some point. I'm no legal scholar, but attempting to become a supreme court justice with the intention of overturning established law seems like it should be disqualifying. Assuming all the perjury Kavanaugh committed during his confirmation hearings isn't disqualifying enough.

 

[chrisrlink]

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And what exactly is "a few slaps" meant to teach a child?

more violence people don't think that one bad kid corperal punishment could send over the edge an well look at the number of school shootings you wouldn't think of a few blows could wind up costing innocent lives the next day or so

 

[Whole lotta love]

friendly reminder that there is no evidence suggesting corporeal punishment to be an effective way of raising children. In fact there is a lot of evidence to suggest it causes the problems it's supposed to correct.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27055181

 

[TotalInsanity4]

friendly reminder that there is no evidence suggesting corporeal punishment to be an effective way of raising children. In fact there is a lot of evidence to suggest it causes the problems it's supposed to correct.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27055181

God I love it when you come into a thread with statistics just on hand. It puts a smile on my face

 

[ChaosEternal]

friendly reminder that there is no evidence suggesting corporeal punishment to be an effective way of raising children. In fact there is a lot of evidence to suggest it causes the problems it's supposed to correct.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447048/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27055181

Well cited! Now we just wait a generation or two for the information to filter out into the general public and we'll see some change.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

ITT: People confusing disciplinary actions with physical abuse.

I guess I don't see how they can't just be the same thing, ESPECIALLY for the younger kids. If they can't understand why what they're doing is wrong, they won't understand why they're being paddled/slapped/beaten/screamed at, other than "that's just what happens when I do this around this person." It's both physical and psychological abuse and doesn't correct the behavior, it only ensures that if they continue to behave that way they do it when the disciplinarian isn't watching

 

[rileysrjay]

Georgian here, and while growing up, it was incredibly common for parents to spank children for their actions during elementary school. By the time I got into middle and high it was much more common for parents to go the grounding route (take away tv, phone, car, etc.). That was probably due to most of the parents that did use physical punishment taking their children out of the school I was in (it was a private school) and placing them into the public school system. My parents always went the grounding route since they couldn't bring themselves to physically hurt a child, and I'm with them on that. If I ever had a child I don't think I could bring myself to physically harm them. Back on topic, afaik all the public schools around me haven't had corporal punishment for years, and even a lot of parents have tended to stop using it (except for the occasional redneck in walmart yelling/ beating their child, which still unfortunately happens). On the one hand I find it utterly bizarre that they'd bring corporal punishment back, but on the other hand, there are probably a few extremely rural places (especially in certain parts of south georgia and a couple of the mountain counties) that I could see them unfortunately bringing it back. I'm in a fairly rural community, and even if they brought it back out here, there would probably be major backlash from parents.

 

[DiscostewSM]

Paddle the parents. If anyone is to blame for a child's misbehaving, it's them. Maybe then the parents will take more responsibility in raising their children to be more respective.

Now in a odd switch of focus, spanking never really worked on my younger brother. When he got spanked, he laughed.

 

[BiggieCheese]

“Talking out of turn? That's a paddlin'. Lookin' out the window? That's a paddlin'. Staring at my sandals? That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe? Oh, you better believe that's a paddlin’.”

 

[Hanafuda]

They had paddling at my elementary school, as a final recourse before being suspended. In other words, it didn't get to that point until you'd been in trouble many times. But for those of us who avoided getting in trouble in the first place, it was a hell of a deterrent actually. More because it would be humiliating for everyone to know you got spanked, than just because of the spanking itself.

 

[jimmyj]

THIS THING only happens in 2 places: the 1st is North korea then.... Murica

dude literally every parent in the world still spanks their kids

 

[TotalInsanity4]

dude literally every parent in the world still spanks their kids

They really don't though, and I think there's a good argument against doing so for those that DO

 

[Captain_N]

Good. Them little shits think they can get away with anything. Paddling whips them into shape.

 

[jimmyj]

They really don't though, and I think there's a good argument against doing so for those that DO

does literally hitting me on the head sound fair for when I couldn't solve a maths division? I can count hundreds of times my dad hitting me for no good reason