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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
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Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
Message-ID: <52@unc.unc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 09:15:43 EDT
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
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Re: Corporal punishment in the schools.

In article <591@oliveb.UUCP> long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long) writes:
>    There are two reasons for this behaviour:
>        A)  You are teaching cretinous students.  Work for a different
>              school district.
>	...

Somebody has to teach in school districts containing cretinous students.
What are those teachers to do?

>  If you don't seem as if you care about what they think, why should
>they care about what you think?  The substitutes that I've had that have
>taught with a minimum of friction are those who care about what the students
>think about them and are willing to treat them like human beings.
>
>    I think I have to add that my responses are only appropriate for my
>environment.  I attend a high school where a large number of students are
>trying to get into places like Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Harvard,
>UCSD, UCLA, etc.

Such an atypical environment is irrelevant to this discussion.  We're looking
for ways to help teachers in districts containing many students who are already
nearly-hardened criminals.

	Frank Silbermann