Apparently paddling kids is an okay school punishment in Georgia

[JellyPerson]

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

Your parents suck.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

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

No???? And that's what I'm saying?

 

[Viri]

When I was a kid, I'd rather get my ass kicked by my parents than punished, lol. Getting hit only hurts for a few minutes, not being allowed to go outside with your friends all day, or no video games for the day is much worse.

 

[mrdude]

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

It sounds like you never got hit enough for your English punctuation. All sentences start with an uppercase letter and end in a full stop/period.

Children get hit generally when teachers have just had enough and telling children to be quiet or stop being disruptive, giving lines and such other measures have failed. Snowflakes seem outraged when they need to face consequences for their actions - well maybe it's about time they started being punished again rather than those non physical punishments.

If you think this is outrageous, think about life in the real world - for example a dictator is using chemical weapons on people, do you send in the Army/Drones to kill the mother f*cker or do you give him lines?

The example is extreme, but their are various levels of punishment, if the lesser one fails - you move up to the next level. Getting belted/paddled is a last resort when other options have failed. So you learn to take the punishment for the crime.

FFS - USA still have the death penalty, and yet snowflakes are complaining about getting punished for something they obviously deserve to be punished for......if the crime deserves the punishment, man up and take it like you deserve.

 

[JellyPerson]

It sounds like you never got hit enough for your English punctuation. All sentences start with an uppercase letter and end in a full stop/period.

Children get hit generally when teachers have just had enough and telling children to be quiet or stop being disruptive, giving lines and such other measures have failed. Snowflakes seem outraged when they need to face consequences for their actions - well maybe it's about time they started being punished again rather than those non physical punishments.

If you think this is outrageous, think about life in the real world - for example a dictator is using chemical weapons on people, do you send in the Army/Drones to kill the mother f*cker or do you give him lines?

The example is extreme, but their are various levels of punishment, if the lesser one fails - you move up to the next level. Getting belted/paddled is a last resort when other options have failed. So you learn to take the punishment for the crime.

FFS - USA still have the death penalty, and yet snowflakes are complaining about getting punished for something they obviously deserve to be punished for......if the crime deserves the punishment, man up and take it like you deserve.

Dude, chill the fuck out.

So you're saying serial murder shouldn't be charged with death? I think a murder should be punished with, well, murder. But they have to be sure who did it.

 

[mrdude]

Dude, chill the fuck out.

So you're saying serial murder shouldn't be charged with death? I think a murder should be punished with, well, murder. But they have to be sure who did it.

And where in my post did you read that? you never, and instead threw a tantrum like a little snowflake schoolgirl. I am all for the death penalty - and would give it to more people than currently get it (All pedo's/rapists/murderers). I think people deserve to be punished for crimes they commit - starting from childhood so they grow up knowing there are consequences for actions.

 

[JellyPerson]

And where in my post did you read that? you never, and instead threw a tantrum like a little snowflake schoolgirl. I am all for the death penalty - and would give it to more people than currently get it (All pedo's/rapists/murderers). I think people deserve to be punished for crimes they commit - starting from childhood so they grow up knowing there are consequences for actions.

Look man, I don't know what kind of Sharia law you're living under, but I don't want to beat my kids. They're just kids. They're innocent. Taking away their video games would be a better punishment, or making them do chores or do something they don't like would be better.

 

[sarkwalvein]

According to Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, time and space are two sides of the same coin, both can be traversed to the point it can actually be 1853 in some other point of space.

Disclaimer: not actually how it works™

 

[mrdude]

Look man, I don't know what kind of Sharia law you're living under, but I don't want to beat my kids. They're just kids. They're innocent. Taking away their video games would be a better punishment, or making them do chores or do something they don't like would be better.

Unfortunately teachers at school can't take away a pupils video game or ground them or make them do chores - and some parents wouldn't enforce this if the school asked them, hence the school teachers needing to resort to punishing the kids themselves. Maybe if some people taught their kids better they wouldn't need to be punished in school at all - but they don't, hence the measures schools are re-introducing.

 

[JellyPerson]

Unfortunately teachers at school can't take away a pupils video game or ground them or make them do chores - and some parents wouldn't enforce this if the school asked them, hence the school teachers needing to resort to punishing the kids themselves. Maybe if some people taught their kids better they wouldn't need to be punished in school at all - but they don't, hence the measures schools are re-introducing.

Ever heard of "detention"? It's a new concept.

 

[mrdude]

Ever heard of "detention"? It's a new concept.

I'm pretty sure the schools that are reintroducing the paddle, have this already and it's failed for some pupils - hence the need to resort to physical punishment.

 

[Taleweaver]

A sad affair. Corporal punishments used to be popular and widely accepted. The reason they got eventually cancelled wasn't so much of humanitarian reasons but because it was scientifically proven that it did not solve the underlying problems. In other words: schools that used it had (at best) the same amount of troublemakers, issues and misbehaving students, but the latter usually had a much better relationship with their students.

So...I honestly don't have a clue what that superintendent is thinking or hopes to achieve (aside perhaps making worldwide news).

Unfortunately, that isn't the worst news. We can complain all we want about that school, but they are implementing it correctly. They only do it on the third strike, and only with the willing consent of the parents.

Honestly: I'm more worried about the sort of parents that say "I've heard 'great, it's about time, 'we're so glad that this is happening again, they should've never taken it out of schools" than schools that at least are consistent about it. Or to put it different: what's the point of schools not using corporal punishments if being suspended means they'll only get beaten by their parents?

But all in all: you've got to fight this way of thinking. Corporal punishments never achieves better students in the long run. It's stupid to attempt it because (again) it's been proven not to work. As such, I have no doubt that it WILL lead to lawsuits from these very students somewhere in the future.

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

Okay...as a BDSM practicer, I can honestly answer that question: no. And that's putting it mildly.

A masochist isn't simply "turned on by pain". I can explain more to those that are genuinely interested, but suffice to say that in a non-sexual setting, pain is just that: pain. Something to avoid.

(NOTE: it's a common debate on whether corporal punishments create more future BDSM aficionados. As it stands, plenty of people who were never punished that way - among which yours truly, btw - can turn out that way. So I'm inclined to believe it at best triggers something within those who already had it in them to begin with).

 

[alevan]

Actually, I think physical violence helps in the growing of the kids. If it's not overused.

 

[Coolsonickirby]

what if the kid has a really high pain tolerance (or a really smart mouth or both)

I was (and kinda am) one of those kids. Every time my parents or grandma used to hit me, I'd just take the hit and honestly not care about the reason they hit me (although I understand they hit me to become a better person as some of the reasons they hit me I understand why when I think about it nowadays.)

 

[x65943]

It's a private school. It's not uncommon for these places to have policies where they can whack kids (although the paddle in particular is kinda out there.)

At my Catholic middle school the principal used to hit us just for fun (as far as I can tell).

 

[Jayro]

Oh great, here come the anti-spanking SJWs...

I was spanked as a kid, and now I suffer from a disorder called "respect for others". Oh darn, end of the world.

 

[KiiWii]

TLDR: what % of parents signed that slip to allow that?

 

[sarkwalvein]

Just as a mirror of a reality I often refuse to see, GBATemp comes and saddens me.
Damn bubbles and distorting safe spaces, looking outside the world is still a messy nest of hate perpetuated by people discharging their frustration yet feeling enough comfort in the acceptance of their actions by their close circle, their own bubble, already indoctrinated themselves for ages. An everlasting Stockholm-syndrome.

Yeah, it saddens me.

 

[jimmyj]

It sounds like you never got hit enough for your English punctuation. All sentences start with an uppercase letter and end in a full stop/period.

Children get hit generally when teachers have just had enough and telling children to be quiet or stop being disruptive, giving lines and such other measures have failed. Snowflakes seem outraged when they need to face consequences for their actions - well maybe it's about time they started being punished again rather than those non physical punishments.

If you think this is outrageous, think about life in the real world - for example a dictator is using chemical weapons on people, do you send in the Army/Drones to kill the mother f*cker or do you give him lines?

The example is extreme, but their are various levels of punishment, if the lesser one fails - you move up to the next level. Getting belted/paddled is a last resort when other options have failed. So you learn to take the punishment for the crime.

FFS - USA still have the death penalty, and yet snowflakes are complaining about getting punished for something they obviously deserve to be punished for......if the crime deserves the punishment, man up and take it like you deserve.

dude chill out almost nobody on the internet uses proper punctuation. plus when I'm having a test or writing something do you really think I write internet way? No,so shut the fuck up dude.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Corporal punishment should never go away. Because parents are too afraid to give their child a good lesson in showing respect, you get children that act like this...

and then they grow up doing this...


I don't agree with beating a child or whooping them just because you are angry with them, but children that do not have proper respect need to be taught it.

My child once went and starting kicking and spitting on her bus driver. Damn straight I took her inside the house and she got the belt across her ass for it. She never acted that way again. She still absolutely loves me, but she knows that she acted wrong and needed to be punished.