The Spank Poll

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I am opposed to legalized assault.

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I used to think spanking your kid was wrong, then I had one.

Funny how that works.  Most people who are most vocal against spanking have never had any children.  Clearly, there's a reason for that.

Of course: smart people don't bother to have kids; smart people take the right side of this issue. 

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I used to think spanking your kid was wrong, then I had one.

Funny how that works.  Most people who are most vocal against spanking have never had any children.  Clearly, there's a reason for that.

Of course: smart people don't bother to have kids; smart people take the right side of this issue. 

Boss, have you ever been spanked or slapped around?

Not that often, I suppose.  The times that I've been hurt the most were actually mistakes during 'discipline', and I have a small, faint scar from such an occurance.

I haven't been hit since I was 9 or so.

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dazzleman, I haven't heard any stories of teachers being hit by kids, although I'm sure it has happened, but it certainly isn't commonplace.  Also, when this does occur, there is no doubt that the kids are being punished by the school and/or certainly by the law.  It's not like students are just allowed to slap their teachers silly left and right, which is the image you gave in their post.

The punishment for a teacher assaulting a student and a student assaulting a teacher should be pretty much the same, other than of course that students are minors and teachers aren't.  Nobody's claiming that it's a student's right to hit a teacher.

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Boss, I would not be so sanguine as you are about the way cases of teacher assault are being handled.  Liberal judges have ruled against districts that have tried to take meaningful disciplinary action against these kids, on the grounds that such action would violate the 'rights' of the 'students.'

When have 'liberal judges' said that beating teachings is a right of the student?

And in certain types of school districts, generally urban ones with large minority populations, teachers live in daily fear of assault by the students they are charged with teaching, students who in a healthy environment would actually respect their authority.

Of course.  But, this is true of simply walking down a street in these neighborhoods also.  Having a teacher hit his/her students really wouldn't accomplish anything here and would just rile up the student body even more.  You think a strapping 17-year-old black wouldn't beat the living daylights out of a teacher if he was hit first?