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They won’t forget for the rest of their lives!

In the 70's the nun who was the principal of the Catholic school I attended had a collection of over a dozen paddles of various shapes and sizes. She took great pleasure in selecting a paddle and savagely beating kids as young as 8 nearly daily. People are terrible, in aggregate. Monsters.

It is guaranteed to cause harm.

Sure but America is so good and moral in many other ways these days. It's just difficult to think of any

Really the simplest solution is to punish the parents for teaching children that misbehavior is acceptable Sure we'd all be mentally broken with guilt but if so much as cussing cost the family a week's wages we'd probably get in the habit of behaving better (at least in public)

Red states. Where kids can't get a school library book with gay characters, but where they can get spanked by school. PS Love the "let's spank them, and if it doesn't help, let's evaluate them for ADHD" approach.

Thank you for this information. We are moving soon and the kids are really shit at behaving in school

I can’t think of a better way to teach bullying others as the best way to get compliance. Can you? Why not make a federal law that mandates stoning offensive children to death? Would solve lot of problems, no? We would lose half our future politicians right out of starting gate. Do as I say or die.

Yep.. I remember my mom laughing at me in public when I flinched

I, and a couple of my friends, were butt-paddled by our 4th grade principal (public school, Northridge, Ca!), and it seemed he took some particular pleasure in it. While some can dubiously debate the effectivity of such measures, I'd like to add that there's a child sexual abuse factor at play