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To Spank or Not To Spank

To Spank or Not To Spank

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by: rocket Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:08pm  
www.nola.com/opinion s/index.ssf/2014/02/ kansas_legislator_fa vors_old-s.html's you guys take on this?  I know for some this can be quite an emotional issue depending upon past experiences.  That being said, If I'm correct, Texas is one of the states that still allow spanking in schools.  BTW I don't think the above proposal made it to the House floor, as predicted. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:12pm  
I can clearly see the benefits of not spanking.  It's all around us.  Look how much more respectful children are, now that fewer people spank their children. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:13pm  
As far as I know, Texas does not allow spanking at school. Mississippi does still, to this day. My husband told me stories about the principal caning students.... Crazy to me.
 
What I think about it? I don't know. I think kids need more discipline, and as much as it sucks, it's true that my generation and many before us knew how to act because we'd get our arses tore up otherwise. Schools should do public spankings, maybe it would actually get through to the kids. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:14pm  
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:16pm  
i've never spanked/hit my kid,so it's a safe bet that i wouldn't be ok for anyone to.......but i did get my fair share at home & school growing up......... 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:20pm  
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rocket Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:20pm  
As far as I know, Texas does not allow spanking at school. Mississippi does still, to this day. My husband told me stories about the principal caning students.... Crazy to me.
 
What I think about it? I don't know. I think kids need more discipline, and as much as it sucks, it's true that my generation and many before us knew how to act because we'd get our arses tore up otherwise. Schools should do public spankings, maybe it would actually get through to the kids.
 
@Katiemcg: From what I've been able to research, Texas does allow corporal punishment in schools.  However, the decision whether to do so is left to each district.
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:21pm  
I got one lick with a paddle in high school because I did something stupid.  I deserved that one, but I preferred to handle the discipline of my kids myself. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:29pm  
I went to Catholic school. You were lucky NOT to get a spanking. Those nuns must have pumped iron in their spare time, cause those paddlings packed some kind of whallop! I remember registering my kids for school 12 years ago and there was a separate form to sign for permission to spank if needed. I don't think it should be done at school due to the possibility that something may have been a misunderstanding, but at home it can have it's place. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:33pm  
In the New Caney handbook there is a section that says they can paddle kids. The schools have chosen not to do it, but by law they can. Most parents don't even read the handbook. I think they would be shocked to see it in there. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:43pm  
Wow, well they should institute those laws into the districts around here. I know it would never fly and there would probably be lawsuits. But the kids need their *sses beat lol 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:44pm  
ever wonder who these people are that are so vigorously FOR corporal punishment? seems like the very ones who like the idea have anger issues to begin with. yes, there's a place for swatting your kid on the butt before they are old enough to grasp concepts and ideas from speech and noncorporal punishment but public humiliation and adults physically punishing kids because they have the power to do so is a poor lesson in life to impart.  and just for the record, if spanking raised respectful children, then beating the crap out of your kids is even better right? it is how they are talked to and treated, not beatings that determine behavior. 4951
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rocket Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:51pm  
^^^Let me say I don't think any sane person would sanction abusing a child.  However, I will say that when children were routinely spanked at home and school, when they needed it, there were less discipline problems in my view.  For example, I never heard a kid cursing out a teacher back in the day. 4951
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:51pm  
Whoop their ***.
 
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 2:54pm  
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~ 10 years ago   Feb 21, '14 3:01pm  
as i seem to recall it, the WORST teachers were the ones who seemed to like to spank. we're talking custom made paddles with holes thru them so they could get more smacking speed...it was way more prevalent among the teachers who were also coaches...and it was relatively common. add to that the preening some teachers go thru in front of a class to administer a spanking and really with some what you have is a public ego exercise to show power. perhaps assigning extra schoolwork would better serve because the kid would have to learn more and maybe miss playtime. that way he or she might think about things rather than develop a pavlovian response 4951
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