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From: whitehur@tymix.UUCP (Pamela K. Whitehurst)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 11:42:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 11:42:55 1985
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Summary: 

In article <14946@mgwess.UUCP> prg@mgwess.UUCP (Phil Gunsul) writes:
>
>If my son ever gets a spanking in school, he'll get another one
>when he gets home!!  
>
>Phil Gunsul

What! Unconditionally?

There are a lot of reasons children have received spankings at school.
One reason is because the child was testing the limits and in this case
the parents should reinforce the teachers authority, or find another 
teacher if they disagree.  Spanking is not the only way to do this.

Other reasons include: desperately seeking attention and getting it the
only way possible, a strong personality conflict with the teacher,
being completely lost (or bored) for too many hours and too many days.

I'll agree that children should learn to handle small amounts of the
above problems.  They also need to learn what to do about them.  How
much of this would you put up with at your job? 

If my daughter ever gets a spanking in school, someone better have a
damn good reason, because she hasn't needed one at home for years!!
-- 

           PKW 
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