Yes, I was speaking of a current school. This same school still deals out "swats" for many transgressions too.
A thing of the past in the State of Ohio's school system's. At least all of them I know of.
Reason:
Today, its been deemed by someone that that form of punishment also infringes on the basic rights of individuals and cross's the line of what schools are alllowed to do.
The system has become gutless and braindead
...and so have a big majority of parents raising kids today.
Todays society is set up for a family having a two household income. There's no longer a parent at home when kids get out of school. Both parents are at work and kids are at the babysitters or in many cases are at home by themselves till mom/dad get home.
Couple that with the fact that what mehavey pointed out of sooo many single-parent homes.....one has to wonder, who's teaching kids today how to act period.
For someone to think the ratio of kids today is not greater when compared to years ago thta children, don't have the respect , don't value the life or the basic rights of others and will do things which the majority of kids years ago would not even think of doing ...well, are just not involved enough in whats happening in alot of todays homes and schools.
The same 'sue happy' parents that want to sue the school when something bad happens to their child while at school are usually the same parents that for whatever reason(working jobs that don't let them spend enough time with their kids or just plain don't care enough to spend time with them), want the schools to teach their kids what the parents should be teaching them at home.
But on the other hand, wants to demand to the school how to teach the kids these basic manors(which is not the schools job) and the school better not step on the childs basic rights...or I'm gonna sue.
Another mind boggling story in Cols., Ohio:
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Game called 'Knockout'.
Groups of kids(consisting in numbers of 10-15) ages 13-18 would get together after school and roam the inner city parks looking for usually mid to older aged people.
The object of the game was for all the kids to walk up to this person and one designated kid would punch them, trying to knock them out with one shot.
A group of these kids were arrested and during the court proceedings, the local news was down at the courthouse interviewing some of the parents of the kids arrested. When the question was asked of them as to how they felt of their child being arrested, the replies were astounding. Two or three mothers standing there together felt the charges filed on their sons were way to harsh and the one spoke up and said, "Its just a game they were playing". Which that response was amen'ed by the others.
Wonder why these kids are doing what they're doing?
These are the same kids that may be going to school sitting next to a good student that arbitrarily decides to get up, walk over to the good student and cut his/her throat in the middle of class such as happened in Cols. last week.
Do we sit back, stay on the defensive side and wait for something bad to happen to that good kid, maybe at the hands of a bad kid?
Then react.
Do we try to go on the offensive and apply new rules when we see a pattern of something occurring that we want to head off?
Which was the reason of me asking in an earlier post, "had this school had previous issues with alcohol related incidents."
Taking all this into consideration and not forgetting these good kids that have the RIGHT to go to school safely without harm from a bad kid or without harm from a kid not known to be a bad kid but does something stupid one night at a dance by drinking, taking some pills,smoking a joint,etc., then leaving the dance with two or three others kids in his/her car and they don't make it home ...
... Just where do we draw the line?
