A New Approach to School Discipline — Suspensions Drop 85%

[MADem]

81. I am closer to the grave than the cradle, and I wasn't raised to believe that

"spanked children make better adults." In my family, we believed that spanked children turn into bitter, intolerant assholes who had unresolved anger issues and hit their own children, which is why we didn't do things that way, going all the way back to the turn of the (19th to 20th) century.

Children were taught to address adults formally, table manners were prioritized, behavior in public places had to be appropriate. Schoolwork came first. If you knew what was good for you, you helped around the house.

We have no criminals in my family, everyone worked and had fine careers, the subsequent generations came up respectful to their elders, helpful and kind to friends and neighbors...and no one had to get beaten for that to happen.