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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where my "I'll give you something to cry about!" generation kids at?

My friend and I were talking this weekend about how kids today would not have survived our upbringing in the 90s...no sunscreen, no helmets, never drank water, and were expected to behave in public or face the consequences later (or if your mom was among friends, get spanked and humiliated right in front of 'em).

It might not have been the best to spank, but let's call it like it is: we didn't have droves of teachers quitting back then because of the terrible student behavior. The most scandalous thing a peer of mine ever said to a teacher was something like "can we crack the window? your sweater smells funny." I have friends who are teachers who have been physically assaulted by students more than once. Why do they do it? Because there are no consequences. When a kid acted so badly that they were disruptive, they were put in a self-contained classroom. The good of the masses was greater than the good of the one. Now it's all about keeping things equal. That's fine and dandy in theory but sh!t in practice. My kid's 3rd grade classroom was evacuated at least once a week because of a disruptive student. And what did the student's peers learn? If you trashed a classroom and acted like a fool, you got to go see the principal where you were given cookies to calm down...while your good peers cleaned up and restored their classroom back to normal. [/quote]

Same and I wonder the same. Instead of the honors teacher or whatever, I wish I could choose the strict teacher. [/quote]

I'm one of these kids and no, I don't spank. I did grow up with a lot of people who think the way you do and back in the 80s and 90s got into tons of trouble, getting into fights (sometimes violent like bashing a bottle over someone's head), going joy riding, drinking and driving excessively, who came from working class parents who were sometimes overwhelmed. Spanking didn't make them behave better, but they did grow up to ironically joke about all the sh*t they did as kids and then talk out of the other side of their mouth about how kids today act out because they have no repercussions. [/quote]

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