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WOW! (long)
By mom2boys

I've tried to read through all the posts on this board and I'm just blown away. I seriously doubt that the child who was spanked in the original post will end up in prison because his grade school teacher swatted his behind.
I do believe that if he is the type of child who is prone to misbehave and to be defiant, as he was being, he could very well continue to do so and get in trouble with the law. That is why I am not suprised to learn that someone has posted the shocking statistics on the percentages of prisoners who were spanked as children. I would be more suprised if the prisoners were the children

who had never been spanked.
I've worked in places where spanking was allowed and where it wasn't. I've taught 14 years on grade levels from K to seventh. I paddled the first year I taught and never did again until this year. There is a time and a place. There has always been much less discipline problems in the school where spanking was an option (parents always have the option of not having their child spanked) even when I didn't paddle anyone.
I was given a "My Favorite Teacher" letter from a child I had taught in K and 1st written when he was in seventh grade. He wrote that he knew I loved him because I didn't let him get away with playing at school, I made sure he learned. He was the first child I ever paddled and the last for a long time.
This year I met up with one of "those" students. He had been moved to my room because his mother felt the student in his previous class were causing him to get into trouble. Nothing I did made a difference in his behavior. He would look right at me and do exactly what I asked him not to do. Finally, he "no-handed" it at the urinal and sprayed another student in the face with urine. He came to the room grinning. This was a certainly a severe clause behavior. I broke out my paddle for the first time in thirteen years. I truly do not care if he now behaves because he has learned to respect other or if he has just learned to respect consequences, I just care that he behaves. He is a child. If he learns that consequence are rotten now, maybe he think about the consequences in the future.