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Crazy Cooter:
I agree parenting has taken a nose dive. Many parents don't invest the time needed to raise their kids "right". Part of that is due to lawmakers taking away punishment "tools" like spanking in public etc. I saw a kid get swatted in a store and most of the people around looked shocked. I was shocked he didn't get hit earlier. Sometimes kids need to be taken behind the shed.
Professionals don't yell. I work with 99% union workers (construction). It's always been my policy that if you yell, you're gone. It's against union policy to do that. Only one person has ever been removed from one of my jobsites.
quarterback:
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Crazy Cooter:
lol.
You should punish your own kids. Not somebody elses. That's why the teacher should have sent the kid to the principal and then the parents could have been contacted. If the parents can't get it through the kids head on what is/isn't proper behaivior, or a teacher can't get it through his/her head on what they should do, then they need to be removed from the situation.
Expell the kid and/or fire the teacher. Whatever the situation warrants.
DrewKaree:
I thought it took a village?
And there's GOT to be sheds all around the village.
I can CLEARLY remember being punished by friends' parents, up to, and including, getting spanked twice for doing stupid kid stuff I KNEW I didn't have any business doing.
I'm one of those parents who ALWAYS gets called first when something happens between my kids and another kid in school, because they KNOW if there's some discipline to be laid down, I'm willing to let the school do what they feel is right, and they know by telling me first that
a) I'll DO something about what my kids did
b) They can tell the parent(s) of the other kid that "the parents of the other child have been told of the situation, and agree with the steps we are taking". It gives the school a little leverage with the other parent, unless the parent could care less.
In only two instances did the other child's parent (notice the lack of an "S" on the end of that word) not agree with the school. A friendly visit from the father of the other child resulted in a sheepish and apologetic phone call the next day to tell the principal they wished to allow the school to administer the proposed punishment.
Call it what you will, but I agree with Hitlery that it takes a village. The problem is that our "villagers" have started to isolate themselves from the rest of the village when they couldn't even handle their own hut.
quarterback:
--- Quote from: Crazy Cooter on March 05, 2005, 03:22:23 pm ---You should punish your own kids.
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