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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: billt on July 12, 2010, 05:19:20 AM
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That's a good one Billt.
This nation could use another drug problem, and this one we shouldn't fight.
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I think Haz sent me that a while back, but good words and True.
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Nail, meet hammer.
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Should be the "Article Of The Year"....
Thanks billt.
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That's a good one Billt.
This nation could use another drug problem, and this one we shouldn't fight.
Unfortunately, that is the drug "problem" the aclu thinks we should fight.
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My hind-end stung quite a bit due to my childhood drug problem.
My pappy drug me out behind the barn and beat my behind with a belt......then drug my wailing ass back in the house.....while telling me to shut up before he gave me something to cry about.
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The real hidden sadness in that article is if you applied it today, in full view of your neighbors, it would most likely land you in family court fighting some type of "child abuse" charges. It has become that convoluted. Some years back I had a co worker who spanked her daughter on the rump for misbehaving at a shopping mall. The "Mall Cop" saw her do it, and she wound up in court over it. The insanity continues. Bill T.
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The real hidden sadness in that article is if you applied it today, in full view of your neighbors, it would most likely land you in family court fighting some type of "child abuse" charges.
What happened to spare the rod and spoil the child? I am happy that my parents "tanned my hide" when I was a youngster. It most definitely deterred inappropriate behavior, or at least made me consider the consequences of my actions. I believe that is one of the biggest problems with unruly children today, no consequences. Time out... give me a break. Better yet, give me a belt and I'll volunteer to take care of the problem. :o
Swoop
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What happened to spare the rod and spoil the child? Swoop
It went away the same as discipline in the classroom did. That's why we have over 40% of "graduating" high school seniors who can't find the United States on an unmarked globe, or read beyond a sixth grade level. Here in Arizona they now require all high school students to pass a test before they can graduate. It is called the AIMS test. (Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards). When they first introduced it the parents objected to it! Naturally, it was the parents of the kids who flunked it, which were many.
I worked with a real bright young guy a while back who told me he took it the second week into his freshman year, (the student has the option to take it whenever you want, or as many times if you fail it), and passed it with a 97%. He said it was unbelievably easy. He also told me A full 2/3rds, (66%) of his class dropped out! When I graduated in 1970 it would have been a safe statement to say 66% went on to college. I only knew of one guy who dropped out of a graduating class of over 1,100 kids. This nation has been dumbing down for the last several decades. The discipline that once drove students is gone in both the family, as well as the classroom.
Today a teachers hands are literally tied as far as administering any kind of meaningful classroom discipline. If they do they run the risk of losing their job, along with the school board being drug into court and facing the a$$ end of a six figure law suit. It's gone completely crazy. We'll be a third world nation in another generation. Look at Hussein. He's a Harvard "graduate" and lacks any and all common sense. A drunken sailor would make a better financial planner. And over 40% of the people think he's doing a good job! 40 years ago he would have been run out of Washington on a rail!
And the kids who do actually make it through college today come out as full blown communists with all of the indoctrination they receive from all of these liberal, socialist, (communist) "professors". It amounts to going into debt for years for a student loan, only to learn that America is a pile of crap, and we need to be living like they do in Cuba. And because of the lame way these parents have raised their kids, they buy into all of it! I don't see parents writing to complain to the deans of these colleges, or pulling their kids out of these communist nurchuring asylums. They just go about their merry way, piling up credit card debt, pissing away every dollar they earn. Then they wonder why their kids are as worthless as they are. No school in existence will replace a sensible, solid home life, coupled with a steady input of common sense. Unfortunately that commodity is becoming more difficult to find in the American family, and this entire nation is going to pay the price. Hell, we already are. Bill T.
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What happened to spare the rod and spoil the child? I am happy that my parents "tanned my hide" when I was a youngster. It most definitely deterred inappropriate behavior, or at least made me consider the consequences of my actions. I believe that is one of the biggest problems with unruly children today, no consequences. Time out... give me a break. Better yet, give me a belt and I'll volunteer to take care of the problem. :o
Swoop
The PC crowd needs to be tied to their chairs and forced to watch McLintock ;)
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Worked with a older officer and the first call I went to with him was a unruly kid. He took off his gun belt and told the mother to blister his hind end with it. She said that I can not do it, I will get in trouble. He said we are here to supervise and childrens services can go to hell. I still use that method to this day. Childrens services does not like me and likewise I do not like them.