Georgia school to bring back paddling

[hunter]

76. I was teaching in the 'eighties and it was emphasized repeatedly to NEVER touch a child.

Not for any reason.

And never be alone with a child.

This was California.

I once got shit for stepping between two fine young men who were beating one another bloody in the hallway. It may have been my first inclination to grab each by the collar and bang their heads together but I refrained, taking a few bruising hits from both before their anger dissipated.

The funniest fight I ever saw was when two guys decided to have at it in my classroom. A big girl in my class, big as in they really should let women play NFL football, leapt out of her seat, grabbed both of them, one in a headlock, and scolded them (translated to polite English), "Mr. (Hunter) don't need your shit in his classroom!"

I think there are disgustingly "traditional" punishment based authoritarian cultures that work by beating the natural curiosity and high spirits out of children.

In my own life I've been entirely oblivious to any sort of punishment. Nobody ever taught me how to accept punishment. Hell, the punishments I've inflicted upon my self are far greater than anyone could inflict on me. You've met people who've cut themselves. I slide down rock faces or jump out of moving cars.

As a high school student if some supposedly responsible adult had swatted my ass I'd have pissed in the gas tank of their car and laughed when it died on the street.

I hold civil society to a higher standard. I'm a responsible adult not because I fear punishment in this life or the next, but because it's the logical thing to do.

When I was a kid whenever I fucked up my parents always explained in excruciating detail why whatever I'd done was wrong. I'd rather have been smacked in the ass.

I've lived a life of hard knocks, but I've never learned anything from that punishment shit.