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From: bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas )
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 22:58:24 EDT
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I agree that schools don't have my approval.  The proper discipline of a child
is the exclusive responsibility of the parents.  There is a very big mistake
being made in public education by getting children into school who are not yet
mature enough to handle the social and academic responsibilities of the
classroom.  The worst ones are the ones whose parents care the least, and for
whom even the threat of expulsion holds no power.  The fact that these children
are allowed to interfere with the education of the others is a big disgrace.
The school should not allow it under any circumstances.  This leaves the other
big problem that's been mentioned: what about the disturbers who have a "right"
to a public education?  I don't believe that if their parents don't care, that
the school can really make any headway at all.  In this case, nothing that the
school or the state can do will make any difference.  Children need parents,
it's that simple.  It's always been true and will always be true, and I dare
say that no one agrees more than teachers.  I know and am related to several
from many different backgrounds, and this is always their biggest complaint:
the parents don't care.  No other solution will do, other than to get parents
to understand their role and stop abdicating it to a school system that can't
and shouldn't have to raise their kids for them.

brian