I was paddled at school today.

The state of UTTER STUPIDITY!

 

stuff getting hit thats just so wrong over here its allowed and at the high school I went to they got rid of detention as they found it didn't work and was effective instead if they were caught smoking in school grounds as schools are a smokefree zone they were taken to watch a video about the effects of smoking and give them information about it and leave it up to them as long as they didn't smoke at school most learnt to smoke outside the school perimeter as that was ok otherwise if caught to many times you got suspended

 

At my school, you have a choice between going to detention or getting two paddlings. Most of the people who get the paddlings are lazy so they don't wanna get up at 6:30 in the morning, and I can't say I blame them.

So during my freshman year, I decided to take the licks instead of going to detention for having gum in class. BAD MOVE. I wound up with a bruise all the way across my ass cheeks and even inside my crack a little bit. I cried. I couldn't sit down. My mom was seven kinds of pissed and took me to the police department. I had to drop my drawers and they took pictures of it. I didn't press charges, mostly because it was my choice to get the licks, but my mom still thinks that I should have because when PARENTS leave bruises on a kid...that's abuse...Oh my God, throw that mean mom in jail, etc! She wasn't happy that a school administrator could do it and it wasn't a biggie. Needless to say, I'm not allowed to get licks anymore!

Another chick at my school isn't allowed to get licks anymore either. But it isn't because she got beat half to death, its 'cause she had a ..er.. sexual reaction to the paddling. lmao.. They said she fell to the floor moaning and screaming in ecstacy, so she has to go to detention because she enjoys licks a lil too much for our red-faced Christian principal/vice principal!

 

nice story bella

 

Yeah, I thought so too.

 

0o0o0o0o, U oughta bust a c@p n der @$$!

 

Little law suit happy? I don't believe in getting someone in trouble because thye delievered punishment. As i said, it wasn't that bad. Yeah, it hurt but it was better than 3 days detention.

 

I think that violence is not acceptable anywhere, at anytime. it aggravates the problem. And I have seen love stop kids from being little jackasses. And I've seen violence and lack of love hurt people so much that they do nothing but hurt more people. This isn't trivial. What a little bit of love can accomplish is so important, and no one is taught that in school. They are taught the opposite.

 

it is not, under any circumstances, acceptable to hit a CHILD. Not by a parent or anyone else. It is abuse and violence. Plain and simple.

Bella, you got bruises?
Hitting promotes violence. So many chidren grow up in abusive houses, and learn that the way to handle conflict is through violence.

 

And many kids were spanked and grow up fine. What's your point? I'm certainly not violent, hell i'm a puppy dog. But i was spanked, do i feel the need to hit people to get my way? No.

 

And plenty of workers who get exposed to aspestos never develop health problems, it doesn't change the fact that being exposed to aspestos is bad. People who act violently towards others were probably hit or abused at one point in their lives by parents or some other authority figure, otherwise they wouldn't view violence as an acceptable way of getting their point accross.

 

Lawsuit happy? Nah, my mom was pissed off to the max...but the cops are the ones that said that we could press charges and shit. She supported it, like I said, because a parent can't leave bruises on their own children and not get in trouble for it...so she was mad that a school official could get by with hitting kids that weren't thiers and leaving marks. I didn't think it was right either! Now, I've been smacked, spanked, and everything else that comes along with mild disipline from my parents...but they never left a foot-long blue, black, brown, purple, and yellow bruise on my ass like the vice principal did that day. My mother is a pre-kindergarten teacher and they have to report bruises like that on the children that come to their school, so she didn't think it was right under any circumstances for a teacher (etc) to do that.

Hell, it doesn't matter...I just saw the thread and I felt like contributing. It isn't that huge of a deal, dude. Corporal punishment has been in school forever, and hitting a child isn't cool by any means...but disipline is necessary when raising a child. Some parents just take it a little too seriously. My being spanked and other things hasn't effected my views of parenting. As a matter of fact, since I know damn good and well how it feels to get spankings and things, I doubt I'll be doing alot of that with my own children. Knowing me, I'd probably make them write about what they did or something...Bore/annoy them to death as a deterrent from any future bullcrap. (take this with a grain of salt, people...no lectures, please.)

 

Discipline comes from the Latin word "to teach" not the Latin word "To hit." My children are well disciplined, but NEVER hit. I teach them what to do right, and what they have done wrong. I don't physically HARM them in order to "teach" the something.

As for taking this "too" seriously. I don't think one CAN get "Too" serious when children are being abused. It is one of the most serious issues we have.

 

Kids live through war and "Grow up fine" kids get sexually abuse and "grow up fine" kids get cancer and "grow up fine" does that mean that these things are GOOD or neccesary to "Grow up fine?" Besides, "Fine" isn't good enough for my kids. I want the BEST. And in a hitting household, kids do NOT get the best.

 

Right On Mags! Mostly, those are POOR excuses, used BY Poor excuses of humanity. (And I really hesitate to call them human!)

 

Good LORD. I wasn't saying that people should run out to the apple tree and snap off a branch every time their kids act up. Apparently not ALL of my post was read. I don't condone hitting children.. not ONCE did I say that. Spanking or swatting a child's butt isn't going to kill them. And I didn't say that this wasn't a serious issue or it is taken "TOO" seriously. When in the hell did I say that? What I said is that SOME PARENTS TAKE IT (meaning DISCIPLINE) TOO SERIOUSLY. As in...THE ONES WHO BEAT THEIR CHILDREN. *sigh* Man. These boards and the way people don't read posts throughly...enough to steal the last few marbles from a person.

(P.S. The reason why I say that spanking children is sometimes necessary, is because my mother spanked my sisters and I when we needed it...and there is nothing wrong with us. She didn't damage us, or make us think we should spank our kids. As a matter of fact, I said that in my post. I doubt I will spank my children.)