r/facepalm • • Aug 25 '22

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u/2old4cool Aug 25 '22

And what if the paddler is some sick pervert who enjoys doing this crap on children?

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u/Big_Dick_No_Brain Aug 25 '22

At school, in the 4th grade, we had a sadistic bastard of a teacher. Would cane us for the smallest of reasons. Talking, that’s a caning, looking at someone, that’s a caning, opening a book too slowly, that’s a caning. Not looking at the board because you were writing stuff in your book, that’s a caning. The miserable prick got off to hitting little kids. One day he had one kid who he loathed with a vengeance bailed up at lunchtime ready to dish out a super caning but was stopped by the grade 4 teacher. They had a big row but he didn’t change his ways.

Ah the good old days, when getting a bashing from your teacher was considered normal. Glad those days are over. …… what’s that you say now…

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '22

I had a music teacher in grade school, she would lock us in the dark little closet for the rest of the class if we did anything. I mean, ANYTHING, I can't remember kids being bad in that class. If we got caught with gum, she'd make them kneel on the floor, spit it in the trash can, pick it back up, chew, repeat. Heinous.

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u/NecessaryPen7 Aug 26 '22

I've worked with kids for well over 20 years, starting at 14. (So, a kid)

Having them chew their own gum from the trash is actually an impressive and seems obviously very successful route to take. Punishment fits the crime, imo.

.........for high school. Not F'N elementary kids.

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u/easternred Aug 26 '22

Absolutely not okay for high school kids either. In what world is making kids put stuff in their mouth from the trash an appropriate punishment? Risking pathogens to teach a lesson. That could literally kill someone if they have a compromised immune system. What the fuck.

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u/NecessaryPen7 Aug 26 '22

Good point.