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Readers deadlocked on whether students should be slapped.

Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:58am

This is a screencap from the Indianapolis Star main page. I doubt it is even close to truly representative, but I still find it disturbing. I know most of you will probably say "What do you expect? It's Indiana!", but ugh!

The poll was based on this story. http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804160447

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Updated On: 4/21/08 at 12:58 AM

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 1:41am

All I know is, if anyone ever slaps me, we're throwing down, I don't care who it is.

Teachers shouldn't have the right to paddle students at all. I don't know how many times I got spanked by a teacher, but it didn't help.

I think only a parent should have the right to punish kids with a spanking.

Send the kid home if he's acting up.

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:28am

As a teacher I am against corporal punishment, mostly because we are supposed to be examples to the kids, including how we solve our problems. If we solve a problem of someone bothering us but hitting them, then all we're doing is teaching the student that its ok to hit somebody if they bother you.

re: Readers deadlocked on whether students should be slapped.

Posted: 4/21/08 at 10:12am

George that might be the first sensible thing you've ever posted here.

re: Readers deadlocked on whether students should be slapped.

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:08am

Teachers should never slap students. Always use a closed-fisted punch.

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Updated On: 4/21/08 at 11:08 AM

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:11am

If teacher's slap, aren't they teaching students that violence works to solve problems?

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:27am

Wow Joe its too bad you couldn't stick to the issue instead of making this personal. : (

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:51pm

I agree with Joe.

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 12:54pm

so this thread gonna be about petty useless personal comments, or about the thread topic?

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 1:11pm

i second mr. matt's sage advice.

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 1:55pm

And wreck my nails?

No. Cattle prod will do in a pinch.

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 1:57pm

i second borstal's position as well.

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 2:06pm

Why stop there? Electrify the chairs and put a control panel behind the teacher's desk.

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 2:09pm

i again second borstal's brilliant plan!

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 2:11pm

I'm not against waterboarding, either. You know inside every teenager there's a terrorist waiting to come out.

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Posted: 4/21/08 at 2:16pm

like freakin' aliens! they get infected from those dadgum internet tubes. the next thing you know they're blowed up like giant box turtles fulla america hating terrorists like bammy hussein. we must put an end to this corruption of the youth and if we have to beat it out of them, then by god, that's what we'll do. sure we might have to kill a few to make our point, but dammit you have to crack some eggs to make a quiche!

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