What Are Some Extra Unfair School Spankings?
@AJ1952Chats (2331)
Anderson, Indiana
July 16, 2008 7:45pm CST
While I don't think that--unless kids are actually being beaten--the long arm of the law has the right to go into a person's home and tell them not to spank their own kids (though people should be educated to the fact that there are better ways to discipline), I think that spankings/paddlings/canings/etc. (otherwords, corporal punishment) should be prohibited in all public schools whether mainstream, charter, or alternative.
Sometimes, it has really gotten overused. I'm going to give you some examples that I know of, and I'd like for you to list your own examples if you know of any...
1. Little boy in kindergarten would rather play in the toy corner than to join circle time. It's very possible that he felt shy. No matter, the teacher (described by the mother of the boy as a lady who seemed to be too dumb to be a teacher) took him by the arm and dragged him to circle time, giving him some swats on his bottom as they went along.
2. Little girl in kindergarten or first grade who came from a home where her mom and dad cussed like longshoremen, so she really didn't know better. A little boy in her class goosed her, and she held up her hand and reported that "Tommy's touching my a$$!"
For that, she got paddled--and she didn't even understand why.
3. When I was a high school freshman, I had a crush on a divorced teacher in his mid-twenties. He came into the gym when I was sitting on the bleachers waiting for phys.ed. class to begin, and I was looking in his direction in a kind of dreamy-eyed way. There was nothing seductive about the look I was giving him. It was more of a loopy schoolgirl crush look.
However, when our teacher came in, she showed me a paddle and told me that she was going to use it on me next time she caught me staring at male teachers.
She wasn't kidding, either!
She was going to have me bend over with another teacher as a witness and swing this paddle, making my butt sting like blazes for wearing my heart on my sleeve!
4. This last one isn't exactly a spanking, but there was this moron who had--according to this young lady who was on a talk show crying her eyes out--taped a sign on her behind that said:
Kick me! I'm fat!
The moron I'm referring to was a male phys.ed. teacher, and the young lady was only 12 or 13 years old. She wasn't even fat. Barely chubby, if that.
Please share the horror stories of this sort that you know of...
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@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
17 Jul 08
Oh, I'll share one with ya.
When I was in the second grade (I was in a private school!), I heard rumors of a teacher (which also was our teacher...) who spanked his own student because the student says that he has to pee and the teacher refuses to allow him. The student, then kept on bugging and bugging the teacher, and then, the teacher went to him and spanked him on the face. Hard.
It was very creepy and the said teacher was kicked out of the school.
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@AJ1952Chats (2331)
• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jul 08
I've heard similar creepy stories.
In one case, it happened in a classroom of an all-girls Catholic school taught by a nun.
One student really needed to go to the restroom, but the nun wouldn't allow her to. These were teenage girls, btw.
I can't remember now if the girl just had to pee or if she also had to poop. Whatever happened, she ended up having an accident.
One of the girls actually tattled on her, and the nun began this nutty, interactive lecture where she asked the students if it were okay to lose control, and the students said (in unison) "No, Sister Margaret."
"And what happens to students who do this, girls?"
"They get caned, Sister Margaret!"
Then, she orders the student up to the front of the class where she makes her bend over, and she hits her with a rod several times.
And this isn't in school, but I've heard several stories of parents where their kids tell them that they need to use the restroom, and the parents tell them they'll have to wait until they get home--and, then, will end up shopping for so long that their children will lose control. Then, they'll hit them for peeing or soiling themselves. Sadistic!
@AJ1952Chats (2331)
• Anderson, Indiana
19 Jul 08
Oh she's holy--as in, "Holy Mackerel! What a looney tune!"
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
19 Jul 08
Sheesh... and she calls herself a nun! That's very cruel of her! Teenage abuse! Just because she is a nun doesn't mean that she is holy! Argh, poor student...
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
17 Jul 08
I don't have any horror stories. Luckily kindergarten was the last year that paddling was allowed in Cincinnati Public Schools. But I do agree with what you are saying. If a "whoopin" is needed, it should be done by a parent, not a teacher. What a teacher may consider a paddling offense may not be considered the same way by the parent. Plus physically hitting the child is a personal thing, and should be done by someone who loves the child, not someone just trying to get obedience from them.
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@AJ1952Chats (2331)
• Anderson, Indiana
17 Jul 08
At the time I grew up--and in the small school I attended--teachers were almost like family members, and our classmates were like an extension of siblings. So, it was more appropriate to spank back then.
Now, however, it's getting to the place where even parents are discouraged from spanking--though (unless it's abuse going on) the decision to spank or not to spank should still be left up to parents and not some outside authority.
Although, during my going from grades 1 through 8, two teachers moved, one teacher retired, and the teacher who took the retired teacher's place had health problems that called for another teacher coming in and replacing her, the teacher line-up was pretty stable.
I knew, for instance, that I was being taught by Miss Robinson in first grade and that I would be taught by (in order) Mrs. Whiteman, Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. Moore, Miss Warner, Mrs. Johns, Mr. Teeters, and Mr. Creason as I went through school. Miss Warner moved and was replaced by Mrs. Farthing, but I was still pretty correct in my thinking of what going through school would be like.
So there was a kind of family stability there. We didn't have busing then, either, or kids living in the same house but going to one school one year and another school the next year.
While most teachers are still caring friends, they're more transient, and come nothing close to the kind of parental intimacy of schools in days past. They couldn't possibly bond with a child enough to be a proper person to administer a spanking.
And there are kids coming from homes where they're never spanked and don't need to be. It would be extremely traumatic for such a child to enter school and be hit by his/her teacher. Especially, it that child were hit for something that he/she wouldn't be hit at home for such as talking out-of-turn.
The choice to spank should definitely be the choice of a parent alone.
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