* Sam Kuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Dec 10 11:56 -0600]: > 2008/12/10 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On 12/10/08 10:06, Jeff Soules wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:00 AM, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> after all, is the priority of a school to educate or to discipline? > >> > >> For an American public school? Unfortunately, probably the latter. > >> Pray forgive my cynicism... > > > > Discipline a priority in American public schools? ROTFLMAO. > > > > Seriously, though, the primary school that my sister teaches is pretty > > strict (and their average test scores are like in the 90th percentile), but > > they are mostly born-again right-wing Christians and most parents authorize > > the school to apply corporal punishment. > > > Gosh, that sounds awful. High grades don't justify violence against > children, IMO. If Aaron had been at that school and the teacher had felt he > was misbehaving, he might have been beaten for handing out free software.
Corporal punishment != beating. I was reared in a parochial school and I was spanked several times through the years and each of those times a spanking was warranted. It had no adverse effects and probably kept me on the straight and narrow more often than not even in later years. But this will get off topic quickly, I fear. :-( - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
