Author Topic: they gotta be kidding (Read 1798 times)

Fishu · « **Reply #45 on:** March 20, 2005, 07:08:48 AM »

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Originally posted by wombatt
It worked for me LOL

Quick, sue 'em, you do clearly have bad traumas from it

Excel1 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 21, 2005, 04:10:39 AM »

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Originally posted by 6GunUSMC
You didn't get the one at home that always follows the one at school, hence the job wasnt finished.

lol... but hey, my parents never had a problem with me being left handed, but one of my teachers sure did. She tried to cure me of the habbit with the sharp edge of a one yard wooden ruler across the knuckles of my left hand when ever she caught me writing with my left hand...and because I was a stubborn little bastige-that was often.

That old witch is long since dead and I'm still left handed:)

Excel

Kegger26 · « **Reply #47 on:** March 21, 2005, 05:34:04 AM »

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Originally posted by Bodhi
they should allow the principals to have their fraternity paddles on the wall in their office like when I went to school.

1 paddling was all it took to get me to respect the other kids and my teachers.

Not me I am alittle hard headed. It took three times lol. But I finally figured it out.

Eagler · « **Reply #48 on:** March 21, 2005, 07:17:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Excel1
lol... but hey, my parents never had a problem with me being left handed, but one of my teachers sure did. She tried to cure me of the habbit with the sharp edge of a one yard wooden ruler across the knuckles of my left hand when ever she caught me writing with my left hand...and because I was a stubborn little bastige-that was often.

That old witch is long since dead and I'm still left handed:)

Excel

wasn't a discipline problem, sounds like a nutty teacher

nothing wrong with the school swatting kids, the sting of a swat gave you something to think about before you skipped out and went to the beach, several swats gave you even more to ponder..

funny how alot of the difficulties with discipline in the school system started about the same time the "cruel" swats stopped..

then again same can be said at alot of homes, parents are to scared to discipline their kids, the want to be their friend more than they want to parent and/or they just don't have a clue

Airhead · « **Reply #49 on:** March 21, 2005, 08:59:01 AM »

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Originally posted by Eagler

nothing wrong with the school swatting kids, the sting of a swat gave you something to think about before you skipped out and went to the beach, several swats gave you even more to ponder..

Yes there is. it's called assault- and if any of my daughter's instructors had EVER put their hands on my child I'd have filed assault charges against them so quick their heads would spin.

Give them detention, make them police the football field, stand in a corner or even expel them for bad behavior- but teachers DO NOT have the right to issue corpral punishment.

Eagler · « **Reply #50 on:** March 21, 2005, 09:19:51 AM »

ah
the girls were not swatted, just the boys - the girls were given detention

the dean of boys, Mr Westler, paddled you and his swing, one handed paddle with holes drilled in it, was accurate and swift - it didn't totally deter our bad behavior, but it did slow it down & thus reduce it

Airhead · « **Reply #51 on:** March 21, 2005, 09:24:44 AM »

Mr. Westler sounds like my High School coaches- same paddle, same one handed swing even- it was a semi-voluntary punishment, and yes, never administered to the girls.

But what happens if some kid decides to fight instead of submitting to a swat? Does school staff have the right to subdue him before administering "punishment?"

Or do they call the cops and have them arrested?

Jackal1 · « **Reply #52 on:** March 21, 2005, 09:29:40 AM »

LOL
We had a coach that had a wicked swing.
He had a tennis shoe sole tacked to his paddle.
Bend over, grab the edge of the desk, WHAM. Your feet would be airborn.

I took my share of flights.

He was also one of the best teachers we had. 1st year in high school he pulled me out of an algebra nightmare in less than 2 weeks.
On the other hand, we had a high school superintnedent that should have been lynched. The guy hated me, my motorcycle, and my hair. When he would get the urge for a little Jackal punishment with the ole paddle I would tell him to go screw hisself and take the days instead.I had absolutely no respect for the guy.
He was coach for the girls high school basketball team with an excellent game record. One of his favorite past times were getting the teenage girls who had been injured in sports into the whirlpool for a little feely/grabby session. This was pretty well known, but was overlooked by most due to his girls basketball team win record. It always amazed me that this was let go as far as it did over a friggen game.
After years and years of this he was finaly run through the wringer.

Airhead · « **Reply #53 on:** March 21, 2005, 09:46:43 AM »

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Originally posted by Jackal1
LOL
We had a coach that had a wicked swing.

He was coach for the girls high school basketball team with an excellent game record. One of his favorite past times were getting the teenage girls who had been injured in sports into the whirlpool for a little feely/grabby session. This was pretty well known, but was overlooked by most due to his girls basketball team win record. It always amazed me that this was let go as far as it did over a friggen game.
After years and years of this he was finaly run through the wringer.

Yup...beat the boys and fondle the girls.... I miss High School. (sigh)

wipass · « **Reply #54 on:** March 21, 2005, 09:56:56 AM »

I don't believe that some of you are condoning the actions of the police and of the school.

For christ sake, the kid was 5 and having a tantrum, all kids do, even those that were beaten, hit, smacked, paddled and or caned. Although for the life of me I can't understand why anyone would want to physically beat a child and a 5 year old one at that ?

If a school or teacher can't maintain discipline with a 5 year old then they have serious problems !

Most of you Americans are freakin nuts !

wipass

Fishu · « **Reply #55 on:** March 21, 2005, 10:08:43 AM »

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Originally posted by wipass
If a school or teacher can't maintain discipline with a 5 year old then they have serious problems !

Haha, I've seen teachers afraid of 7 year olds fightning each other. Almost anyone would been without a riot gear, with all the stuff flying back and forth. One of the objects went through ~7mm thick plywood layer of a door, which wasn't made of the cheapest available plywood. It'd been messy had anyone been caught in the way.

Apparently you haven't seen the total nutcases yet.
Some kids can't be just simply grabbed.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #56 on:** March 21, 2005, 10:19:57 AM »

not just a tantrum. the kid kicked her teacher. if you see attacking a teacher as just acting up, how far does the kid have to go for it to be 'a big deal'. do we call it serious after she hits her mother? or do we wait to make our point until she starts to show a pattern of using weapons?

none of my kids ever hit an adult during a tantrum (they have however been shown how even someone their size can do serious damage to an adult and when that would be OK). I'm sure the thought or urge to hit the wife or me never entered their minds?

I damn sure ain't signing off on letting some public servant decide when my child need hit. I'd deal with that just like I would anyone who attacked my family. let them feel the other end of 'corporal punishment'.

I've was never 'swatted' or hit by teachers. it wouldn't likely have changed anything if they had since I doubt any of them would have even come close to what was waiting at home if they just called the old man and told him I was screwing up.

they didn't do 'swats' in Oregon while I was in elementary school.
they did do that occasionally when I went to HS in the mid-west. it only came up for me once during my senior year. they had some policy about clearing up punishments at each semester and didn't have time to do the in-school suspension. so they tell me I could either take the swats or not get my credits for the semester because of unresolved discipline issues.

since I needed the credits I told them that I'd take the swats if I had to but that I'd just like to take a moment to apologize for anything that may happen in the time between him hitting me and me getting my temper back under control. he never told me what he decided. I ended up not getting hit, went back to class and never heard anything about it again.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #57 on:** March 21, 2005, 10:39:54 AM »

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Originally posted by wipass

Most of you Americans are freakin nuts !

wipass

Yes we are. and that is exactly the reason none of you will ever conquor us:D

Jackal1 · « **Reply #58 on:** March 21, 2005, 12:37:41 PM »

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If a school or teacher can't maintain discipline with a 5 year old then they have serious problems !

Most of you Americans are freakin nuts !

wipass [/B]

Heehee. If they can then they are a freakin genius.

Oh......and yes we are. Thank you.

Excel1 · « **Reply #59 on:** March 22, 2005, 04:06:09 AM »

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Originally posted by Eagler
wasn't a discipline problem, sounds like a nutty teacher

nothing wrong with the school swatting kids, the sting of a swat gave you something to think about before you skipped out and went to the beach, several swats gave you even more to ponder..

funny how alot of the difficulties with discipline in the school system started about the same time the "cruel" swats stopped..

then again same can be said at alot of homes, parents are to scared to discipline their kids, the want to be their friend more than they want to parent and/or they just don't have a clue

It was a catholic school in the 1960s. Many of the teachers were nutty in some way, and by todays standards some of them were just plain sadistic. But back then,at that school , a teacher hitting a seven year old kid because he refused to obey his teachers instructions to not write lefthanded (or 101 other things) was only being disciplined. The school condoned that kind of punishment, so she was not considered to be abnormal or nutty. In fact, she was not the worst teacher I had at that school she just stood out more than some because she wanted too rid the world of lefties.

I'm of the opinion that teachers should just teach and the dsciplining of kids should soley be the parents domain.

Excel