Would you sent your child to school which allows corporal punishment?

[maryjk]

Again, I don’t mind people opposing CP, but question using that particular logic as a good reason for opposing it; that’s all.

Are you still on this rant?

My comment was based on what some people have said.

You have taken that one comment and then have spent this much time “questioning their logic?”

Hint: This thread is about allowing your child to attend a SCHOOL where they use corporal punishment.

 

[EasterJoy]

That is fine, but again, I was merely challenging the logic that if you believe hitting to be wrong, you then by default believe corporal punishment to be wrong in all cases, since that logic if extended to all decisions (I oppose killing) doesn;t allow for common sense to see that certain situations are not analogous or are more nuanced.

Again, I don’t mind people opposing CP, but question using that particular logic as a good reason for opposing it; that’s all.

I think you’re being a bit arbitrary about where “common sense” can draw a line. To say that if you don’t believe in hitting in order to maintain your boundaries in general that it should follow that you would not use it to maintain your boundaries with someone who is both younger and smaller than you does not lack flexibility or “common sense”.

If you don’t believe that adults in authority ought to be able to use hitting as a way to discipline other adults, then yes, it ought to follow that you wouldn’t need to use hitting to discipline a child. If professors may not hit their students, why on earth should elementary school teachers be allowed to hit their students? If neither the police nor the courts use corporal punishment after the fact of an offense to maintain discipline, then why is it illogical to extend that to schools? I don’t see where this lacks logic whatsoever. When you think about it, the surprise is that various forms flogging didn’t go out of style as a means to discipline school children before the justice system quit using it on adults who had actually committed a crime.

 

[Julian_Bashir]

Are you still on this rant?

My comment was based on what some people have said.

You have taken that one comment and then have spent this much time “questioning their logic?”

Hint: This thread is about allowing your child to attend a SCHOOL where they use corporal punishment.

How is it a rant? Easter Joy and I have been responding to one another. Regarding your "hint, you are the one who said that was the rationale for some people. Some people enjoy going back and forth debating things on the message board. It isn’t as though it is contentious or anything. Why single me out? It isn;t as though as I am responding to my own posts. If you don’t like the “rant”, ignore it.

 

[maryjk]

How is it a rant? Easter Joy and I have been responding to one another. Regarding your "hint, you are the one who said that was the rationale for some people. Some people enjoy going back and forth debating things on the message board. It isn’t as though it is contentious or anything. Why single me out? It isn;t as though as I am responding to my own posts. If you don’t like the “rant”, ignore it.

Actually I have a better option.

 

[EasterJoy]

Actually I have a better option.

Breaking News…Horse DOA…Proceed accordingly…Fair enough, Mary!

 

[Julian_Bashir]

That’s fine, I hear what you are saying, and respect the opinions expressed here either way.

 

[freiabereinsam]

No, only the parents themselves should employ it.

Unlike others, I consider corporal punishment a legitimate tactic, but I would not permit a third party to use it, except in the unlikely hypothetical of supporting corporal punishment while refusing to do it myself.

 

[kozlosap]

I taught high school for 33 years and not in a million years would I ever agree that corporal punishment is acceptable. We have a freaking culture of violence and we want to endorse it even further? Never, Never, Never!

 

[petitfleur]

I honestly cannot imagine being ok with allowing other people to use CP on my child.