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Sheeeeit!!!
When I was in school it was back in the days before psychiatrists and school psychology was allowed!
Not only did the teacher and even the Janitor have the authority to beat your ass if you messed up but the walk home was worse!
Every neighbor along the way would automatically know what you did and had the authority to whip your ass too! Not to mention folks driving by who also had that authority!
You did NOT get out of a deserved spanking when I grew up! You didn't have all the crime and what-not either! I remember seeing grown men, even Mafia guys getting a beating by their elderly mothers if they sassed back! It was okay to rob and tear ass but it depended on when, where and whom!
People back then took no shit and if you were stupid enough to do something that alerted the police you PRAYED that the police would get you BEFORE your parents or kinfolk did or you might not make it TO jail!
Often the cops would drag a guy HOME and you never saw so much kicking and screaming in your life! I remember hard assed gangster wannabees crying like babies and four cops holding him down so his ma or pa could get a good lick in on him! And he had better not run away or it was ten times worse! They'd call the sherrif in and brother, you did NOT want the sheriff to come by your house looking for you. It was a guaranteed beatin' like no tomorrow. Jails weren't crowded either! Judges used to send guys TO jail just to protect them from their families! I recall vividly some mothers marching up TO the jail, demanding the release of their kid or demanding to be let INTO the jail just so's they could whup up on a guy.
I remember guys cutting down those old weeping willow trees so their mothers couldn't make switches out of them.
You really, really had to do something incredibly stupid to get a beating though. The worst offense was sassing an elder back or running from a beating. That was worse than death!
Spitting, sassing back, stealing, cussing, walking funny, acting up in church, you woulda wished they had the electric chair than have to meet that hickory or new england pine switch!
There's a difference between spankings and abuse. In those days there was no child abuse and when it did happen the parents got either locked away or lynched or dumped in the river and the kids adopted by another family. No courts, no juries, just done.
Abusing a kid was unheard of back then cause folks still believed in ropes and low tree branches! Still do in some parts!
What's happened here is too much intervention by eggheads. There's a way to know if a kid has been abused but it's on a case by case basis. My dad spanked me twice my entire life and that was that. My mom was the whipper. Had to have that switch! Yet my dad knew that a moment of clear conversation always solved the problem. Spankings are a last, last resort when a kid's actions could endanger their lives or the lives and property of others.
Yet today, you spank a kid and ten cops show up, throw you in jail, force you AND the kid on psychiatric drugs and then FINE you to pay for the medical costs.
And we wonder why kids show up in schools with heavy weapons and dope.
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