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The Quakers played a major role in replacing corporal punishment with penitentiary punishment, but it seems to result in a life of crime and years of lost time for many people who go through the system.

This didn't just start.. some schools all over the U. S. have been bringing it back for ages. Found an article from 2006 about it in the NYT: Anthony Price, the principal of Everman Middle School in Texas, reinstated corporal punishment last year. “It’s had a huge effect,” he said.

Of course those of you who think it's good to put emotions first and that weakness and being comfortable is how you build a society won't get it.

After decades of trying the softer approach to dealing with kids, more government schools are starting to try the old tried & smack them till they conform or leave. I approve. As much as some of you whiners want to claim that getting smacked for violating school rules is the same as when your drunk parents smacked you in anger when you'd done zero wrong to make themselves feel better, it's not the same. We've been soft for too long. Too many kids with zero self-control grow into adults who think it's right to steal/kill others for their own pleasure. In the old days, 1.) Most kids behaved without even having to get smacked at school, 2.) the kids who did get smacked either learned to be better or they got expelled. Either way you ended up with a school that had fewer bad apples which is better for the good ones.

Next step needs to be bringing back the ability to expel bad apples and not help them in any way. Also hold parents accountable for their kid's actions in the world. If the parent doesn't like it they should send their kid to a boot camp or orphanage. Maybe some of these parents need a good whack too. Ha ha ha ha.

Do you considering spanking a child (hitting them anywhere but the face, as punishment) to be abuse?

I'm a teacher and had to do annual training again, including reporting child abuse. It is pretty standard, common sense stuff here in Korea (physical, emotional, psychological abuse, or neglect), but I imagine in America, "abuse" would be mis-gendering your child nowadays, because the West is raising a bunch of snowflakes.

I actually had an abusive mother, so I don't consider spanking to be abuse. I was moreso raised by my grandmother than my mother, and when I talked back, my Dutch-American grandma raised in the South, would actually use a tree branch to spank me with. Stung like a motherf*cker, but worked. I don't look at my grandma as being "abusive" for that, even though she "hit" me way more than my actual mother did.

A child KNOWS what's abuse and what's punishment. Abusive parents usually don't "love you" one minute, and hurt you the next. Their abuse is consistent and usually not just "physical abuse," but more so, emotional abuse and other forms, as well. If your mom and dad love you, but spanked you because you tried to steal your neighbor's car at age 12, then that's not abuse.

But what do you think? Considering today's Millennials, I imagine we're going to get a lot of "Dr. Phil moms" who think even raising your voice at a child is "abuse" and are going to have little future-felons by the time they're 15.