Since when is manual labor “corporal punishment”?
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But that would be corporal punishment!
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Do you mean copro-al punishment?
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[sub]I can’t believe I just typed that. Coprophagia is absolutely, utterly disgusting, even if you’re a cat.[/sub]
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It’s even worse when it’s a sure-fire pregnancy indicator on a dog. My former housemate’s Aussie would go to the litterbox every time she was pregnant. Every time. :eek:
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All 3 of my kids were trained by age 3 (more like 2 and 1/2)–and none of them are laissez faire about toileting issues. IMS, voluntary control of the bowel starts at about 18 months to 2 years–it’s on a spectrum. But complete control doesn’t happen until after age 2. (my youngest is 9, it’s been awhile).
I cannot help but think that this was some kind of initiation for this girl or else she has severe emotional/mental problems. Most teens are quite shy of exposing personal habits such as this.
I wish the school would follow up with either a referral for the girl or appropriate punishment, if she’s found to be just doing it to act nasty. As well as the social mores aspect, it’s a public health issue.
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Mine were “old” trainers at 3 1/2. And both are completely grossed out that they ever “sat in poop!” despite having been comfortable doing it for much longer than I would have chosen. Neither would casually poop - neither of them want to use the toilet if someone can overhear them.
Maybe she wanted to know what brown can do for her.
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Wash her hands?
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Something makes me guess “no” on this one. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that she is not particularly fastidious about washing her hands after every excretion to begin with. I shouldn’t presume. Maybe she crapped on the floor, then excused herself to the ladies room to wash her hands. I just think that’s unlikely.
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Maybe she wanted to know what brown can do for her.
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missbunny is my hero.
Bravo.
[QUOTE=Dangerosa]
Mine were “old” trainers at 3 1/2. And both are completely grossed out that they ever “sat in poop!” despite having been comfortable doing it for much longer than I would have chosen. Neither would casually poop - neither of them want to use the toilet if someone can overhear them.
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My daughter? She’s fine with the door open, closed or anywhere in between(if it’s just family home). My sons? They’d prefer to be home alone. #1 son runs water in the sink (not a family habit); #2 son slams the door as if to say, back off!
Neither of the older ones would so much as come close to #2 son when he had a dirty diaper (they were quite a bit older than him).
I can’t see this girl as anything but emotionally disturbed. And I’m sure the concept of clean hands has never crossed her mind.
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In my college days, someone had shat in the men’s shower and left a note on the turd which read: “The Mad Crapper Strikes Again!” It turns out that we were the second dorm building within a few weeks to have been “struck” by this “Mad Crapper,” as it were.
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When I taught high school, there was a Phantom Shitter (as we on the faculty called him) who smeared his feces all over the bathroom walls in the school. The administration supposedly figured out who it was but wouldn’t say… the kid obviously had serious psychological problems. Maybe he was the spiritual brethren of your Mad Crapper.
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This is pure speculation on my part, but the only potential uneducated rationale I can offer at this point is that many of the kids in this school are low SES, from broken families, drug families, etc.
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I know it’s unfathomable, and we’re trying to understand how this could happen… but I’m not buying this explanation. I went to a low SES school with all the traits you describe, and I later taught at a school with even more of those problems.
If anything, kids at the school cared too much about their appearance, looks, hygiene, etc. Kids couldn’t read that well, but you needed to have the freshest, cleanest gear to get any kind of respect in my school. Trust me, I was a bit of a slob in HS and caught grief for it.
There’s got to be more to the story than this. Was this done in a hated teacher’s room for revenge or something? It’s still gross as hell, but taking a shit in the middle of a classroom is a one-way ticket to pariahville where I come from. Hell, rumors about girls shitting themselves during sex spread around my school like wildfire, and if “confirmed,” that was grounds for changing schools.
I think anyone who would do something like that is deeply disturbed and needs help. I also have to wonder about anyone who finds humor in it?
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Since when is manual labor “corporal punishment”?
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In my experience, the politically correct fascists have defined corporal punishment as “anything involving the body”. Yes, I am a public school teacher (CA), and this as I know it is the effective definition, if taken to court. I’m ready to be corrected, but I honestly wouldn’t give the slightest bit of required effort to a student as punishment without explicit approval from the administration.
Suspension? How times have changed. A punishment for something like that when I was a high school student might have involved expulsion or scrubbing toilets and suspension.
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth]
Suspension? How times have changed. A punishment for something like that when I was a high school student might have involved expulsion or scrubbing toilets and suspension.
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I don’t even know what the punishment would have been, back in the day, because it would not have crossed anyone’s mind to DO that.