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When I was growing up teachers would slap kids.....


In the 60's/70's teachers would happily slap you for no reason at all! The worst thing was that you had to hide this fact from your parents because they would then hit you for misbehaving in school. In those days teachers would hit you for not finishing your lunch, I am being totally serious.

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Yep I remember those days. Just raising your voice in class and a blackboard rubber would come flying through the air and whack you in the head. Or at lunchtime, if you didn't like a certain thing on the plate and you didn't eat it you were made to finish the whole lot off otherwise you'd get a backhander around your face. But the funny thing is, I never grew up to mug old people or hurt any living thing. Sometimes a slap is a good thing! Obviously not excessively but a little dig never hurt me or any of my friends I went to school with. We're all married with kids, house, dog and cars but we were the ones who all got slapped back in the day. People who don't slap their kids seem to have the little brats running around terrorising everyone and everything. I'm not saying all are like that but around my way, it seems the single parents with young kids/teens have no control but oh no, they would never dream of giving their kids a little slap. Never hurt me and it won't hurt them. Simple as that!

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Well if it didn't hurt you or anyone you personally know then I guess it's fine. Oh wait, there are mountains of research showing that slapping your kids is a terrible parenting strategy, and I think that weighs a bit heavier than your anecdotal evidence there.

People who slap their kids do so because they're ignorant of proper parenting methods, stuck in an age where instilling fear of physical violence in your kids to stop them behaving like brats was the gold standard for parenting. This does of course not negate the fact that many parents are way too lenient with their kids and let them act however they want without consequences. In those cases it really would be more productive to slap the parents.

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Why do you people always talk about the past as a justification for this type of thing. Do you honestly think lack of beatings is the problem?Correlation doesn't equal causation.The family dynamics have completely changed, people have no time to spend with and actually teach their children. No one has dinner together anymore to just sit and talk and be a good influence on each other. Those are a few things that are contributing factors. Not a lack of physical and humiliating violence like a slap across the face .
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I started 1st grade in '57 and graduated in '69 and I never once saw a teacher slap a student.

I taught junior high, high school, and college and I never slapped a student. If my son had ever been slapped, the teacher would have been in deep trouble. He's grown up to be a great young man, hard-working and hasn't been without a job since he was 16.

It's possible to raise kids without violence. That doesn't mean no discipline, but it means parents have to work harder and not resort to hitting. It's appalling to think that teachers would force children to "clean their plates," which only teaches bad habits. No wonder there's an obesity epidemic in this country.

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