My daughter teaches at an elementary school in Aldine ISD.  One of her kids straightened a large metal diaper pin and was poking it at others. My daughter saw this and told him to give it to her. He stabbed her in the arm. My daughter picked him up and brought him to the principals office. They had the kid sit there for an hour or so, then gave him a little slap on the wrist and sent him back to class.Administrators are scared of being sued for administering punishment, won't back up teachers that do, and so (just like in that video) the kids know there are no consequences for bad behavior and can get away with just about anything. Back in my time, if somebody did something like that, the vice principal would administer good old "licks" and the parents would have been called in. Now, many parents don't care. If someone were to spank their little "precious", they would be raising hell at the school.
@Retired_Engineer:
I have always told my kids that if you get in trouble at school, you are in triple trouble at home. I have stuck with it for all three and i get all kinds of complements about how curtious they are to their teachers. Something that would require a coupe of days of restriction at home get turned into weeks if it is done at school.
My youngest got a taste of that recently. The teacher was so surprised about her punshment that she called to tell me what a good girl i have and that everyone makes mistakes. I cut the restriction off a little early after that and made the teacher look like the hero. Lol
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