Our junior high coach used to do that, too. But then a couple of twins with freakishly long arms always wanted to put the gloves on.
Corporal punishment in the schools became illegal in Ohio back when I was in grade school. But even a few years ago, I was interviewing at a school in rural Ohio, and in the interview, unprompted, the principal mentioned that they still use it there.
And teachers could also lie to parents. When I was in 5th grade, two 6th grade boys got in a fight on the playground, a fight I never even saw, and because one of them was from a prominent family, he couldn’t be punished, so the school called MY parents and said I was in the fight. What was their attitude about it? “You may not have done that, but you’ve probably done other things and didn’t get caught.”
Yeah, I don’t visit much.
I see memes all the time about how everything was so perfect when adults could “correct” (i.e. hit children, even ones that weren’t their own, possibly hard enough to leave visible injuries) youngsters. I always reply, “Do you also think men should be able to do that to their wives? Some people believe in that, too, you know.” I’ve been blocked on Facebook a few times for this!
That’s when I’d stand up and leave. You can’t pay me to hit kids.
Isn’t that the way it should be?
If someone wants to beat my child they’re going to face some consequences that I won’t mention here. Then someone can send my kid to detention or whatever punishment that conforms with the evidence you speak of. That’s what parents should do when someone threatens to, or actually does beat their children.
There seems to be some misunderstanding. I wasn’t talking at all about corporal punishment. I was only talking about communication between teacher and parent. Some parents will not hear a word against their child.
Sorry. I should have done that better, I used your words to frame my response, which turns out to be out of context and I apologize for doing that.
Apology accepted. You’re a valued poster here.