What would be a suitable punishment for the boys who bullied their bus monitor?
Have you seen the video?:
Leaving aside what the school or their parents might do, what would really serve the interest of justice?
Also, is no one teaching their children respect for elders anymore?
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Permalink Reply by Dylan Martin on -
What the hell started THIS???
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Permalink Reply by Dale Headley on -
Kick them off the bus for a year.
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Permalink Reply by Jim Minion on -
The school and current regulations don't allow you to do anything to the kids, you can't say anything and if it becomes violent you don't have the right to protect yourself. The driver could have called this in, stopped the bus and waited for the school to send security. The problem is respect, and the rules as they are at this time.
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on -
Is it just a coincidence that this sort of behavior on the part of kids roughly coincides with a theory of discipline that forbids corporal punishment? My generation turned out a lot better than this one seems to be turning out and we had to face being paddled in school and being spanked or manhandled at home.
I don't think so.
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Permalink Reply by Tiffany bottoms on -
About 90% of parents still spank. I refuse to blame the 10% of us who don't on all the wrongs with this world. Also, every prior generation likes to talk about how much better the kids of their generation were (along with how they walked to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill, for 36 miles). Kids these days are participating in community service, going green, standing up for animal rights. We have a larger population, and 2 parent working families, and so yes, misbehavior might be on the rise due to statistical relevance. I had an interesting conversation with my older neighbor recently. He told me how misbehaved kids are these days, how he wouldn't have gotten away with the stuff they do now cause his parents were smart enough to paddle his behind. Then he proceeded to tell me about his unfortunate prison incarceration. SHEESH! I made sure to have a note pad on hand to take parenting advise from such a successful gentlemen. He lives at home, with his parents, in his 40's and has no job. That spanking sure did the trick.
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on
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You are addicted to anecdotal evidence aren't you? You wouldn't believe the evidence of aggregate society as long as you know this person or that who seems to provide a counter case reinforcing your beliefs.
How did you come to be an atheist anyway? Apparently, through some anecdotes a neighbor told you over the fence.
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Permalink Reply by Tiffany bottoms on
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Well, if personal observations, various book reading on the subject, and paying attention to the violence in society is considered addiction to anecdotal evidence, then your assertion is correct. And yes, I became an atheist for the reasons you assume. Your observations are keenly accurate. As a matter of fact, before I responded to this, I went to a neighbor in order to acquire some anecdotal evidence.
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Permalink Reply by Unseen on
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If by the violence in society you are referring to gang violence, for example, that is due more to the absence of authority figures and absentee parents (fathers who abandon their families, parents involved in drugs, etc.), not due to spanking. To think that spanking causes that is, well, hilariously ridiculous.
As for book reading, people tend to read books that will affirm their own beliefs. Just as airhead conservatives will gravitate toward FOX News rather than the Public Television news.
If someone recites things they supposedly learned from books, my first reaction is to try to find out if any of those books actually challenged their core beliefs to any degree.
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Permalink Reply by Tiffany bottoms on
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Well, you don't like personal experiences, and you don't like book evidence. How about psychological journals? Honestly, we wont see eye to eye on this and we know it. But i agree with your Fox news reference 100% so we have that commonality to build off of :)
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