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To: ThomasJefferson
No, you got it half right. Schools have the right to properly discipline students. Putting them in timeout or detention halls is a worthless punishment.

Spanking worked at home and in schools for decades. Liberals and liberaltarians don't understand the concept that strong punishment deters inappropriate or illegal behavior.

29 posted on 05/20/2002 12:24:05 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky
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To: Ol' Sparky
Schools have the right to properly discipline students.

"Properly" is the key word here. Touching my children physically is improper in that it violates their rights and mine. The person who violates their right to be secure in their persons will find out what the penalty for that is.

Putting them in timeout or detention halls is a worthless punishment.

That is your opinion, and it might even be true in whatever crappy schools your children attend. You have a right to send them where ever you choose.

Spanking worked at home and in schools for decades.

Spanking at home is not the topic of this thread. Physical violation by government employees is. This thread isn't even about private education.

Liberals and liberaltarians don't understand the concept that strong punishment deters inappropriate or illegal behavior.

I can't speak for either of the two groups you mention (off topic in any case) but I understand, and the person who physically violates my children will quickly learn the concept that strong punishment will be in store for them.

35 posted on 05/20/2002 12:32:54 PM PDT by Protagoras
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To: Ol' Sparky
Schools have the right to properly discipline students.

Not government schools.

70 posted on 05/20/2002 2:09:04 PM PDT by southern rock
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