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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Using a belt is child abuse. How can you call a person like that a friend? [/quote]

Np no it’s not abuse. My friends son is hit in school by the principal weekly with a paddle. She comes to the school some days to use her belt on him. [/quote]
What school? [/quote]
I know this thread is old but the school is nonexistent. No school would allow this kind of abusive garbage anymore.[/quote]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.caller.com/amp/464387001
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/06/27/corporal-punishment-in-texas-schools-is-more-common-than-you-think/%3FoutputType%3Damp
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766273/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/local12.com/amp/news/nation-world/texas-independent-school-district-incorporating-corporal-punishment-and-bonus-program-03-04-2020
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_corporal_punishment_in_the_United_States

You don’t know what you don’t know.

One of my charges (13; age range was 5-15 at the time) elected to take a paddling vs detention.  I argued that detention would have more impact long-term: he would miss practice, benching him for the game the following day; it was the homecoming game, and the coach had a 2 minute policy for all eligible players for special games, so it would have been 1 of 4 guaranteed play days through the season; the coach tracked the boys that were ineligible for any reason through all of high school, and the kid with the best average eligibility at graduation got a special award; as a not-so-hot player on a small town team, he was guaranteed a spot on the team every year, but he wouldn’t be guaranteed time on the field.

His father and I understood why he wanted the 5 swats, because it would be easier.  Guess what?  In another situation, his father may have been okay with it (and I’m okay with working for someone who lets his child choose, rather than inflicting or allowing  corporal punishment without the child choosing).  We all make choices, and negative consequences hurt, the question is simply how.[/quote]

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