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Date Posted: 10:00:30 11/09/05 Wed
Author: Old Ted
Subject: Re: The Strap
In reply to: Norman 's message, "The Strap" on 16:13:27 10/29/05 Sat

Interesting memories. School is different now. The kids can do what they want and no one gives a damn. Then they wonder why the streets of France are lit up at night with riots, or the center of our cities are controlled by youth gangs.

Our society doesn't need more prisons, or harsher laws, or more people in jail. What we need is schools teaching children to work and to behave. Then they'd not be rioting when they're 18. This doesn't mean corporal punishment. Corporal punishment is probably a bad idea. Too many teachers are idiots and can't be trusted and the teacher lobby is too strong and protect their own even when they know they are idiots. Besides, hitting people just teaches kids it's okay to hit people. But firm discipline and control are needed.

>A search for school strappings has brought me to this
>board. I was never strapped in school but my sister
>Kathy who was two years my senior was given the strap
>by Mr. Wilson a number of times. She was lippy and
>rude to him when she'd be sent to the office for some
>reason. He'd get angry, call home, and get permission
>to strap her. He'd give her four on each hand and she
>told me she would be crying at the second or third
>blow.
>
>Later, at bed time, mom would spank her with the
>hairbrush. I always found it exciting listening to
>Kathy get a spanking as I knew she would be over
>mother's lap with her bare bum getting whacked. A
>couple of times when we were at the cottage I got a
>chance to get a peek and see some of her spanking.
>
>I was very close to Kathy and we used to confide in
>each other. I told her I found it exciting to hear
>her getting spanked, although I never told her about
>peeking. She told me that she found it exciting to be
>strapped by Mr. Wilson and so sometimes she would
>deliberately misbehave in class knowing she'd be sent
>to the office where she could prevoke him into giving
>her the strap.
>
>I have always wondered if many students deliberately
>provoked a teacher into giving them the strap.

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[> [> Re: The Strap -- Mabel, 07:46:39 11/10/05 Thu [1]

As you can tell from my name, I'm not a youngster, a Boomer, or even an oldster. I'm ancient, lol. But I still have all my marbles and here in the seniors' home I'm enjoying learning to visit with people on the computer.

What I want to say about this post is that back when I taught school there were consequences. I never liked the strap much. Too many teachers were what we called 'strap happy.' But consequences are important. That's how people learn right from wrong. I click on the wrong button on this machine and all my work is lost. Consequences. I learn to click the right button, which actually is usually the left one, which I'm going to do now and send this off by magic.

Away we go on Mabel's magic carpet.

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