What ever happened to corporal punishment?
Somewhere along the line, dicipline of children migrated away from the paddle and drifted towards the "Time Out" chair. What's the deal with that?
As a young miscreant, I received my fair share of K - 12 discpline, standing in the corner, standing with my nose in a small circle drawn on the chalkboard, sitting in the time out chair, standing in the hall, countless trips to the principal's office, and swift justice, administered with multiple licks with an oak paddle.
The only discpline with any modicum of (fleeting) effect was the latter. Mr. Wise, Mr. Reynolds, coach Warden, and Mr. Dollar, to mention a few, all brought me off my feet on occasion. I never actually ran afoul of Mr. Dollar, a 6' 6" tower of a man, but his classroom was directly across the hall from Mrs. Loomis, my 7th grade, 103 year old widow woman of an English teacher. Although fairly tolerant of MOST 7th grade shenanagans, the woman had absolutely NO grasp of the humor inherent in a well placed whoopy cushion (timing is everything). Nor did she have an appreciation for the logistics required of a 7th grade boy to even ACQUIRE such an instrument of humor in the first place. (Else, she wouldn't have riddled my prize posession with holes, inflicted with multiple jabs with a #2 pencil). All the same, seeing that old woman (probably more like 50 something, except in the eyes of a 13 year old) leap back out of her chair in mid-poot was well worth the trip across the hall for the requisite 3 licks at the hand of Mr. Dollar.
But I digress...
The (mis)behavior of children and young adults alike stand as testimony that "kinder, gentler" dicipline just doesn't work. "Spare the rod and spoil the child" indeed.
Tantrums, pushing and shoving to be first (or First To Find), failing to follow the rules, being a tattle tail, and picking on girls is no longer limited to Kindergartners and 1st graders!
> BUT WAIT!
The shortcoming is obvious.... What we need is a BIGGER "Time Out" chair. Problem solved.
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