2008/12/10 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 12/10/08 11:55, Sam Kuper wrote: >> >> 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. > > That last sentence is probably the dumbest thing I've read this month.
I doubt it. I know people who *were* beaten at school for perceived (not actual) infractions. In any school with corporal punishment, there's a danger that it be used on pupils who have done nothing wrong. But this is way OT now, and I won't pursue it further. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
