Would you let someone hit your kid with a board

[sorefeet]

A teacher hit me 3 times when I was eight years old and I remember it like yesterday. I quit high school because a teacher ordered me to the principles office for punishment. Had a flash back I guess. I went to my locker, got my shit, walked out and never went back.
The news has a little boy about to be beat with a board and it makes me nauseous to watch. It is child abuse right on TV but legal in Georgia.

[HughBeaumont]

1. A teacher did that to me once in first grade.

I got pushed out of line at a drinking fountain. Huge crime, I know. But said "teacher" decided both of us should be paddled.

The pusher bawled his eyes out. I walked into class angry. Not one tear. Because fuck her, that's why. That isn't being hardassed, that's letting everyone know that what she did was wrong and her bullshit is on her, not me. Even in first grade I knew better than to let bitches like that win. I told my parents years later and they were pissed. That particular teacher was one of my uncle's classmates.

I always said if I'm not going to hit my kid (because all that teaches them is that violence is the best way to deal with your problems, effectively turning them into authoritarian Republicans), then no other adult or kid is allowed to either. And I don't veer from that.

[cwydro]

2. The mother actually filmed that video, which is perplexing to me.

Apparently she's been previously put in jail because the child had not been attending school.

The whole thing sounds very sad for that poor child.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. North Carolina... 1975. One of those wooden paddles with the holes

for aerodynamics or whatever. Why? Because I (a 5-year-old Kindergartner) stood my ground that "I was too dressed for the Bicentennial because my dad told me my apron looked like a pioneer's apron." I refused to sit down when she told me I wasn't included in the festivities because I wasn't in costume. So, I was sent to the principal's office for my paddling. Good times.

[sorefeet]

4. Teacher left the room

and some kids threw paper wads. When she got back they pointed to me. Put me in front of the class, hit me twice and on the third one I put my hand back there and she clobbered it. When mom found out she was crazy mad but dad wouldn't let her confront the school. Terrible thing to put a kid through.

[Hoppy]

5. I was 12 years old... Confirmation class, RC church in Springfield, NJ.

Anyways, we were lined up in the hall to recite our lessons. Kid missed an answer and the nun grabbed him by the cheek and slammed him against the wall... Blood all over the wall.

I completed my Confirmation but that was the day I was no longer a Catholic. That was even before I understood the silliness of the whole belief structure.

[angstlessk]

6. I was a RC school kid too, but our corporal punishment was a slap on the hand with a ruler.

Well, our nuns WERE the Sisters of Mercy, after all

[Paladin]

7. Pose that question on a right-wing site, and you get responses of orgasmic delight. (nt)

[mitch96]

8. Fathers revenge

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I was about 8 years old (mid to late 1950's) and got kicked in the ass by a frustrated principal.. No joke his name was Mr Lasher!! Casper milquetoast kind of guy, bald, glasses and about 98 lbs soaking wet... In retrospect I think he was on a power trip.. I told my mother about it and she was fuming.. My father was a Merchant mariner and off on a trip. He came home two weeks later and found out what this guy did.. Very calmly he made an appointment with Mr Lasher to discuss my "problem".. The day comes and we go to the school and wait patiently for the principal.. The secretary escorts us in and closes the door. The principal proceeded to tell my father how I'm not working to my potential and my father sits quietly listening.. This condescending pompous ass insinuated it was my upbringing that caused my bad grades..
At this point my old man lost it.. My old man was about 5'10" and 250 lbs WW2 Navy vet and was a brawler... He grabbed the little guy by the neck and said if he ever "heard of any school official" touching his kid again (me) he would deal with Mr Lasher personally! I was totally shocked!!
Pop's let him down and just as in the movies, he brushed off Mr Lasher's shoulders like he was dusting off some dirt... Lasher bolted from the room, I think he shit himself... Knowing my father I think he showed amazing restraint!!
Never had a problem after that.. Actually all the school teaches and administration ignored me... I don't think that would work today.
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[hamsterjill]

10. Love this!!!!

I grew up in the sixties and corporal punishment was common in my school. Every year at the beginning of the year, my very Cowboy father, in his boots and jeans, made a trip to the principal's office to explain that no one better touch one of his kids. He did not believe in spanking children.

My dad had grown up in a family with seven children, and according to him, his mother used to beat them sometimes just for the hell of it. He would have no part in anyone hitting his children.

But until the day he died, he could give me a certain look that would just make me wilt. There was nothing worse than getting "the look" from daddy that meant he was disappointed in what I'd done.

My parents had four children, and we all turned out pretty fine without ever being spanked.

[Matrosov]

9. Got slapped in the face in first grade

I was being hyper and the teacher yelled at me. I talked back to her and she walked up to me and slapped me in the face hard enough to leave a bright red mark for the new few hours.

Nobody cared though. The general consensus was 'That'll teach you not to talk back to your elders.' Then again, that was decades ago, in a very conservative part of the Deep South, so hitting kids was more acceptable. I had friends who'd get the belt whenever they misbehaved.

[Javaman]

11. there was this demonic sadist in my elementary school who would employ "the golden rule"

aka over sized ruler to discipline kids.

he was an old bastard.

[trof]

12. My high scchool vice-principal was the guy with the paddle.

Happily I never got whacked, not that I was an angel either.

[Codeine]

13. I got paddled incessantly in Wyoming in the late 70s.

Our administrators loved that stupid paddle. Can't say that it helped -- I'm still an asshole.

[shanti]

14. my second grade teacher

would walk by your desk and pull your ear if she felt you weren't paying attention. it was humiliating, and i do remember the old witch, miss wickham.