We never should’ve stopped beating children in the west as a form of punishment
Disturbing increase in violence at school as principals say both parents and students are making threats
Submitted 7 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to globalnews@lemmy.zip
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Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
thefartographer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Plenty of these kids are already getting several servings of abuse at home. That’s why they show up with weapons. Kids just want to be noticed and acknowledged.
Give them a safe space to grow and they’ll learn, punish and repress them and they’ll lash out.
tygerprints@kbin.social 7 months ago
Actually when they've interveiwed school shooters and such they have found the opposite to be true, these kids come from very permissive homes where the parents never raised a hand to them no matter what they did wrong. Like Ethan Crumbley's parents who let him get away with anything and always looked the other way no matter how many animals he "experimented" on.
Kids need discipline and sometimes physical punishment is the only sure way to get their attention and make them see that their actions do have terrible consequences.
Wiggle_Hard@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
I agree and disagree at same time
z00s@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You think physically beating them will make them less likely to bring in a weapon?
tygerprints@kbin.social 7 months ago
I don't think a kid needs to have constant physical beating, but if he or she does act up and do anything threatening to others, it can make them think twice about doing such things. Yes it can make them less likely to bring a weapon or even think about doing something that might well end with their bottom getting smacked to oblivion.
The problem is if you don't punish kids in a way that hurts, they end up escalating their violent horrible behaviors because they start to believe nothing bad will happen to them no matter what they do.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just remember that kids are now more immune to bullshit, so if you beat them, expect some messed up revenge afterwards ;)
tygerprints@kbin.social 7 months ago
I totally agree. It was never fun to get slapped or spanked as a kid, but in the 50s and 60s, if we did something wrong - SMACK. There was no holding back the corporal punishment and it did force us to learn to take responsibility and learn how to behave.
Spare the rod, you always spoil the child (as in turn them into a rotting runt of a weakling).
tygerprints@kbin.social 7 months ago
And yet if the teachers or principal were to raise even the mildest hand to strike these kids it would be a global outcry of screaming outrage over corporal punishment. When we were kids in the 50s, we did something wrong, we paid for it with a rod to the backside. We learned to behave, and not be disrespectful.
Today's kids are raised in a culture that lets them run rampant. I don't how many times I've walked into Target to see kids running wild like they were at a playground, throwing balls around and making a mess.
Spare the rod, spoil the child. And you'll end up with kids who bring machetes and spears and knives to school; weakling sad little runts who cant learn to be responsible human beings and who have such low self esteem they need weaponry to threaten others with. Sick.
Holyginz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What a long comment just to say you would rather beat a child than find out what the actual issue is.
tygerprints@kbin.social 7 months ago
Yes, thank you for being a prime example of someone I'd gladly beat into a pulp just for the sheer pleasure of it.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Ah yes, I always went to school carrying my polearm.