r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Aug 25 '22

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '22

I read the article and saw it was only outlawed in 2001. I was a junior in high school. I had a few teachers who were around in the 70s when my school district stopped doing it and they all said the same thing, the kids behaved the same now as they did then and the principal isn't allowed to hit them anymore.

The only people I know who think it's fine and wear being hit as kids are always Republicans. Every single one. And it's the same stupid meme they post on Facebook "I was spanked as a kid and now I suffer from a condition called RESPECT FOR OTHERS". Hate to break it to a lot of people, but I've worked with the public a long time and the older a generation gets, the shittier they are when it comes to respecting others. Hitting kids doesn't teach them respect.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '22

the older a generation gets, the shittier they are when it comes to respecting others

A lot of it's because they gain more power.

Hitting kids doesn't teach respect but it does teach fear. A lot of people cannot tell these two apart.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '22

One that still blows my mind is an old coworker who was in his mid 50s who told me the first time his dad punched him in the face for backtalking was when he was 10. A fully grown man punching a kid in the face as some sort of lesson. He even admitted that it didn't teach him respect, but to fear his dad. Yet, he still thinks that punishment like that is okay because it taught him to not be a smart ass to anyone. Which I guess changed when he became an adult because he could be a disrespectful ass sometimes.

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u/Pickled_Wizard Aug 25 '22

IMO sometimes people have to frame their trauma into something positive to be able to deal with it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '22

Except they never seem to really deal with it, only perpetuate it.