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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If my child threw food as part of a food fight and was told to clean it up and was given appropriate tools to do it (i.e. mop, brooms) I would have no problem with it.  [/quote]

But they were not given the tools. They were crawling on hands and knees. Therein lies the rub.

But if its cool for you all- then just sit back. [b]I will look for your champion responses when its white kids on a video[/b]. :)[/quote]

If you are looking for a racist person you should look at yourself in the mirror. I did not originally look at the video in the link but just read the posts. I thought that merely making the kids clean up the mess they made by throwing food was certainly not corporal punishment (when I opened the thread I thought the issue was a teacher spanking or hitting kids), even if the kids have to go on their knees to do it (I do it all the time when I had to pick up food after my kids eat when they were little, and I still have to do it sometimes - my kids do it too at home, I often ask them to pick up the bigger pieces of food because we vacuum under the dining table, it is called "cleaning after yourself", not corporal punishment). I had no idea about the color of the kids and frankly it did not even cross my mind, if I think the punishment is appropriate, then is appropriate no matter of the color of the kids.  if my white kids start a food fight a school and trash the cafeteria I would be livid for the behavior, the waste of food, the lack of respect for the cleaning people at school. After your post I looked at the video and while you barely see the kids, what I really noticed is that these are not little pre-keiers who got carried away, they look like big kids who should have really known better.  In short, they had to pick up the mess, no abuse, if my white kids did that at school I would be ok with it and I would also punish them at home. [/quote]

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