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To: AppyPappy
If you send your child to a government school, you must live within the bounds of the school.

That is precisely why government schools should be abolished. Particularly because the is no choice to opt out for some people. The attendance is mandatory even for people who do not have the resources to opt out.

If your child is disruptive, they will be punished in a manner decided by the school.

I don't know what state you live in but In Illinois, corporal punishment is forbidden and it has been since I was in elementary school in the 50s, probably before then. Rightfully so.

If you don't like the method, you can remove your child.

I thought I made it clear that we were talking about people without an option like that.

Your child will be hit in school. That is guaranteed. The question is whether the attacker will be sufficiently deterred from hitting your child again.

None of my three children has ever been hit in school. And they won't be because their primary education is now ended.

If you want to remove the consequences, that is your business. But your child will live with that deterrence.

See above comment.

I would rather my son get paddled in school than beaten by his classmates. I have children in a public elementary school and their biggest complaint is lack of discipline by wimpy administrators.

It's OK with me if you choose to have government employees physically touch your children, I do not choose that. I assume my own responsibilites, I do not cede them to anyone, certainly not government employees.

12 posted on 05/20/2002 11:30:29 AM PDT by Protagoras
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To: ThomasJefferson
Do you choose for your children to be forceably removed and banished from the school? Which is worse: paddling a child or forcing his parent to miss her work and cost the family money?

Your children were hit in school. You just don't know it. There is no way your kids went through 12 years of school and never got hit by anyone. That's ludicrous.

13 posted on 05/20/2002 11:35:19 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: ThomasJefferson
BTW you don't make sense. You don't believe in government schools BUT you believe in making rules for them. If you make rules for them, you obviously believe in them.
14 posted on 05/20/2002 11:36:54 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: ThomasJefferson
I don't know what state you live in but In Illinois, corporal punishment is forbidden and it has been since I was in elementary school in the 50s, probably before then. Rightfully so.

I know you have a bet going on about your children getting assaulted at school, but I'd like a bet on the above statement. Spanking was still allowed in Illinois the 80's. Decision done by districts.

88 posted on 05/20/2002 7:29:30 PM PDT by Pure Country
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