Fucking hell, how is this still legal in 45 other states???
We have a long way to go
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
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Right? I’m often shocked by what is still legal, like the number of states that allow an adult to marry a child.
TIL.. what the fuck. This shit has been illegal Canada wide for generations now, I honestly thought this article was from the past..
Wait...is the modern day US from the past? Was there some sort of time loop?
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Gotta make sure the kids stay in line so you can get them to work. Don't forget how many child labor laws have been loosened or removed by conservative states
I was unaware it was still legal until this.
I’m not a violent person. I’ve never been in a fight, let alone in jail for assault. If some school official did that shit to my daughter, it would be my first time for both.
Like everything else in this country.
The Cruelty is the Point
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What's wrong with physical punishment? My dad hit me and I turned out fine after just a decade of therapy.
Careful now, I got in trouble yesterday for not putting a /s on my sarcasm.
The
after just a decade of therapy.
does wonders.
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The data available shows hitting kids does absolutely nothing to increase desired behaviors and in many cases is linked to increase in unwanted behaviors.
What do you mean hitting children teaches them that hitting is acceptable?
Next they will tell us that beating our wives for dinner being late is unacceptable!
Yeah I can 100% confirm this. My parents beat me when I was a kid.
I've learned to lie better. It's not something I'm proud of.
Also explains a lot about American culture being what it is.
We all learned to convincingly lie our way out of “the wooden spoon”
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In schools? How is this even still an open question? I thought the debate had at least moved on to whether parents should be allowed to hurt their children, even in the US.
It was banned in public schools 30 years ago, this extends the ban to private schools
Not in every state.
Wait, it was allowed up until now?
Laws for physically harming children are super messed up. Children are legally nearly a slave class in this country. Their parents can 100% hit them ("within reason") and it's not child abuse. If a child retaliates at all, the child can actually have charges pressed against them by the parent.
I have heard numerous numerous stories of this exact situation: parent starts beating kid to discipline. it gets out of hand/kid won't tolerate any more, so they call 911. Police show up, tell kid not only are they not arresting parent, but it is parent's right to hit kid and discipline as they see fit (within the law). But if parent wants they can see about charges to kid if kid hit them or destroyed property.
This is also very similar as to what happens when women call for domestic violence - the police threaten to arrest the victim. Really really often. It's almost like police are domestic abusers themselves.
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There's still a handful of red states with it on the books as well. Yes, it's everyone you think it is.
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Heres my argument against hitting kids. Mississippi loves it, cant get enough of it. Every ailment of society is caused by kids not getting hit enough, and they wear their past of childhood violence as their biggest badge of honor. Hitting kids is how you get Mississippians.
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The thumbnail made me think this was about hitting children with busses, glad to see that's already illegal
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This is overreacting. I was beat as a child and I only need minimal therapy now.
Good job. Keep making conservatives actively confront their weird, inhumane, hateful bullshit on its face.
The gop is the party of hungry, beaten kids, sitting in understaffed schools, without schoolbooks, and distracted by construction noise from the publicly funded ten commandments statue going up near the school entrance between the active shooter drills. They sit there, nodding off and tired from working a double at the Tyson chichen slaughterhouse the night before.
And never forget, matt gaetz is sitting in the parking lot waiting to offer your kids a ride after school...
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I was threatened with spanking once in the 9th grade.
I told the principal that it would take more than him to do it. He called my dad. Dad laughed in his face and told him to try me on. Then hung up.
I ended up with a week of ISS.
INB4: I know this sounds like a greentext. I've been telling this story for 20 fkin years.
Ahhh ISS. The truest of punishments. We had to help the janitors as part of ISS. Good luck catching up on missed schoolwork at home despite being in school all day, all while watching your friends have fun while you empty the next trash can.
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We had "optional" corporal punishment.
You could choose swats with a paddle, or writing sentences over and over.
Most people took swats, but I just picked sentences and never did them. They'd double the amount a couple times and eventually stop asking for them.
But absolutely zero boys gave a shit about taking swats, it was no deterrent what so ever. Even knowing that there was an easy way out of the alternative, they'd just take swats and immediately forget it happened.
If anything it made behavior worse, because they could do whatever and then have a few seconds of discomfort later if and only if they were caught doing the bad thing.
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Showing a picture of buses made me think they meant hitting them with vehicles lmao
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Here's a crazy idea. Every time you wanna spank a kid, don't. Spank that kid's parents instead.
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But but but . . . hitting solves problems!
Just ask the guy who invented it . . . Hitler.
(I'll show myself out)
It's CHILD ABUSE!
To not allow TEACHERS to SPANK KIDS! I'm a Republican trying to Protect The Children!
So we're getting a throwback to 1973 news articles... Wait there were still places outside of backwards ass Pender County, NC that did this shit?
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I went to a small rural school for a year when I was in elementary. The music teacher head paddle he'd use when it was your birthday. Wanna know the really fucked up part about it all? His paddle has holes drilled into it.
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