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      imagine your job being Certified Child Spanker

      I doubt they would fork the cash for the job, more likely some friend of a friend of a senator starts “The American university of spanking” and the current teachers would be required to pay for course there.

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      Okay, now THIS is “top content” as they call it.

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    Imagine your kids school sending you a letter that they are cool with hitting YOUR kid for whatever dumb reasons teachers have.

    I’d start doing some spanking as well, see how they like it.

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      Spanking royale. Your child spanks someone, someone spanks your child, then you go in and spank someone, then…

      The endless circle.

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    In other news experts are still baffled by the seemingly endless string of school shootings in the US

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    Because I got way too little sleep last night, and because the word “bat” in liberal discourse about China usually means something very different from what you play baseball with, I immediately imagined some guy in a Zhongshan suit using a furry winged mammal to beat the fear of Mao into some kid who didn’t do his homework.

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    If I ever have children and am still unfortunately living in this cesspit, they’re getting homeschooled. Friends of mine have told me that that’s a bad idea because of the “lack of socialization” and they’ve met “weird home schooled kids” but you know what? I don’t want my child going to a school where an authority figure can beat them at will, where I may be sending them straight into a death-trap where they may get shot, where the education is pro-capitalist indoctrination, where the lauded “socialization” is really atomization, bullying, and a deep ingraining of individualist values. I’ll find different ways to get my kids socialized. I won’t allow the beast to swallow them.

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      Most of the “weird homeschool kid” comes from the overlap of religious extremists who homeschool. Their kids are “weird” because they’ve been brainwashed into believing a Bronze Age ideology steeped in violence and de-humanization.

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        Not just a Bronze Age ideology steeped in violence but usually a version of that which is chock full of whacky conspiracies like evolution being a lie by the devil, the earth being only 6000 years old, plain weird things like Adam and Eve riding dinosaurs (or alternatively dinosaurs being a lie planted by the devil), that abortion is a silent genocide of trillions of humans, and just all kinds of other horrifying, anti-social, child abuse shit. Manipulative and abusive psychology has been perfected by these people who publish many of those courses to coerce, manipulate and control kids into their cult. To teach them natural urges like masturbation, sex, etc are wrong, evil, etc. So they grow up hating themselves, seeing themselves as fallen, evil, wicked with a limited range of expression, stunted growth in many realms, etc.

        So yeah, home schooling minus that will definitely turn out a much more normal, well-adjusted kid.

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      Yep, right next door in Kansas feeling great about our decision to homeschool. When I thought about my own education (K-6th segment) I realized 90% of it is just learning how to be a decent person with a huge emphasis on shutting up, and decided we can probably do that without the strict authority adherence bits. I really hope y’all can repeal that before it spreads around the 4-states region, but I can imagine at least Arkansas is probably gearing up compliment similar policies.

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        In IL for now so it’s slightly better as we’re led by enlightened philosopher-billionaire-king Pritzker lol. Thank you for sharing your experience with homeschooling!

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    I got beat with a 2x4 at one of the schools I went to. They carved a handle out of one end and used it as a “paddle” kind of thing. Some schools do even worse, though. Canes, switches, and “belts”(in quotation marks because it’s often just a strap of leather, sometimes split at the end) can break skin.

    This largely went away in public schools, but never did in private schools. Many children get sent to private schools just for the corporal punishment. Sometimes, they offer “scholarships” just for those kids if the family can’t afford tuition.

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      I got pinched and slapped by my homeroom teacher in high-school a lot. I jumped her out side a grocery store and beat the shit out of her with a chunk of garden hose filled with bb’s

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      I got beat as well, as did my peers. I’m in my mid twenties – this was not long ago.

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        Thin, supple branches from a tree or large bush. Often, part of the punishment is having to go out and pick your own switch, and getting extra hits of you pick one that’s not good for hitting with. Otherwise, they just have one on hand that’s specifically for punishment.

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            Corporal punishment might have made sense in a preindustrial society, where most people were physically tougher (by necessity), and societal relationships tended to be much more personal in nature. It makes absolutely no sense for a modern, industrialized nation like the United States.

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    I’d make sure to clarify beforehand that I’ll break the jaw of whomever dares hit my children.

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    Spanking kids at school is a great way to teach them pretending to understand what you want them to learn, and covering up their mistakes instead of confronting them. It will lead to a society that is to an even greater degree based on fear, deceit, and incompetence.

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      yea my brother and I got spanked a few times as kids and the only thing it taught us was how to cover for each other so we didn’t get in trouble

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    Not good. My school had this. The principle was enthusiastic a bit too much with hitting kids.

    Hopefully someone shot him.

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    Posted this and got a response arguing that the “headlines would be the same”

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    this is happening in the US yet people think “china bad”

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      Are the USA now justifying the reign of terror despite their attempts to frame China for the reign of terror with the 1989 false flag terrorism? The sole Liberal superpower should not think that violence is the only solution unless they want to expose their hypocrisy. They blatently support delinquency by children of fake refugees who claim to be victim of Communism despite their claim that fake refugees are from former European colonies and not from Communist countries.

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    This is just upsetting. It’s as simple as a person not wanting to be hit being hit. That’s an act of violence now committed against the kid and modelled for them as a way to solve problems