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The school should institute severe consequences other than beatings. If the school is a good place to be and the majority of the kids there want to be there, then suspension can work, isolation can work. If the place sucks, it wont, and no amount of beating will improve that. Smacking is for parents to decide.
Heres the other thing. There is a point when the biggest meanest baddest ass is not the teacher. Do we want teachers or bouncers? As a teacher I dont want to work there. (I have) Do we escalate to being armed? School cannot go back to 1955. I used to work with a music teacher that just happened to be a 6 ft 5 black man. He hated being the enforcer. The staff goon. Corporal punishment is not any answer for a school.
I was paddled by the principal of Monroe Elementary for getting into a fight at the bus stop. (self defense!) I thought that it was ironic, unjust, stupid and I was only 10. My ass hurt, but mostly I was just mad.
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