Whatever You Do, Don't Spank The Brat

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beat on the brat, beat on the brat beat on the brat with a baseball bat oh yeah oh yeahhhhh ohhhhhh
 
Yeah, kids back home knew how to act with dignity, especially in public places.
 
American(and westernized society) in general likes to take away every good way to discipline bratty kids and then wonder why so many of their kids turn out to be brats.
 
I am making unreasonable demands that you change your lifestyle to suit my narrow view of acceptable sexual behaviour. Submit or you will face the consequences.
The consequences are that I (almost) never speak of this again.

Besides. BDSM is bad because the TV said so.
 
I don't see the relationship between the thread title and the article itself. This boy isn't a brat, but has a mental illnesss or something like this (I can't tell it from the article alone).
He got treated for it, his mother took him home, so it's now all fine, right?
 
I don't see the relationship betweent the thread title and the article itself. This boy isn't a brat, but has a mental illnesss or something like this (I can't tell it from the article alone).
He got treated for it, his mother took him home, so it's now all fine, right?

There is a very obvious link:
By all accounts, the second-grader threw a tantrum at Mildred Helms Elementary on Wednesday. Carroll said the boy tore up the room during his fit. In the process, he stepped on a teacher's foot and "battered" a school administrator.

Carroll said the tantrum was so bad that school officials had to evacuate students from the classroom.

School officials called the parents and police. When officers arrived, they decided the boy needed a mental health examination.

Don't tell me that a teacher cannot restrain a 7-year-old! A few decades ago he'd be grabbed, get a spanking and that'd be it. Now he gets classified as having a "mental illness" - anything which does not conform to "proper behavior" is a mental illness, obviously... :rolleyes: That must be a booming industry.

Without searching for further information on this case, my impression is that the cause for the sad episode is simply that teachers are afraid to even lay hands on children, for whatever reason. So they do the "proper" thing: label the child as having a "mental problems" and ship it to some "psychologist"!

Yes, there are madam aplenty, but they're not the ones being sent to the psychologist, they're doing the sending.
 
@innonimatu: To spank a child in class could you cost your job though. Plus, the article doesn't go very much into detail how exactly this kid acted when he were on his rage trip. Maybe it really looked like that he's driving amok.
Spanking, executed in reasonable measures, can be very effective, but should be done by the parents exclusively.
 
Spanking, executed in reasonable measures, can be very effective, but should be done by the parents exclusively.

Why? Then he can be home-schooled. They should make parents sign contracts whereby they can send their child to school only if they agree that their child is liable for reasonable disciplinary action, even physical ones. Obviously, such a tantrum more than qualifies for some good-old physical punishment.

Even if he really has a mental illness that is not caused by the pampering he's had, common sense says that we should try simpler means to solve a problem before much more complex ones right? A cane is much simpler than an expensive psychologist with years of training.

No wonder there are chavs all around. Their parents either beat them too much when drunk or don't touch them at all. Either way, stupidity ensues.
 
Every aspect of a meaningful and positive education, which includes teaching, sermonizing and even spanking should be get done by reasonable parents and not by parts of the school's administration, for it could be abused way too easy and too fast.
 
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