The recent EACS flap over racist notes found by two black children is finding less merit each day. The latest is that the notes were only A NOTE (as in singular), and that it was NOT placed in a black child's locker, as first intoned.
Furthermore, the two students ADMIT to LYING about where they found THE note (still singular). This was just another knee-jerk reaction to a situation that should have been handled INTERNALLY by the school.
The local NAACP was all over this like you-know-what, and the school had to issue apologies longer than a calendar year. It USED to be called GETTING THE FACTS STRAIGHT...FIRST, before going off half-cocked.
And that is a large part of this nation's problem with it's youth. The sad thing is that this has been going on for DECADES. Seems like another case for CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, right?
Add this to the proposed BAN on SPANKING in Massachusetts (which I hope falls quicker than the stock market on a bad day), and you're creating a recipe for disaster. Corporal punishment (when utilized properly and with the appropriate restraint by the adult) works miracles to ensure that proper discipline is meted towards their children. The down side is that some people can't control themselves once they "get rolling". And then there are those who just plain ABUSE their children outright.
So some dumb-ass lawgiver in Massachusetts "thinks" (erroneously) they have the solution which would be a BLANKET plan to dissuade ALL parents from disciplining their children through spanking vis-a-vis corporal punishment.
Yeah, that's going to go over like a pregnant pole-vaulter!
If there is ONE good point to all this, it's that child ABUSERS will get their just rewards, but that's IT. The rest of this is just so much chaff for the threshing floor.
I've known people that have spanked their kids, and produced fine young adults. Conversely, I also know people who did not spank their kids and got the same results. There are those that spank their kids and STILL produce hellions, and others that do NOT spank and produce similar children. Spanking is not some universal panacea for discipline...it's no magic bullet, but at least allow the PARENTS to make the decision as to when and where to apply the "Board of Education to the Seat of Knowledge"...not some lame-ass lawmaker or government.
In an age where children are thrust into quasi-adult situations at an earlier age, the LAST thing we want to do is withhold corporal discipline. Face it, many kids, thanks to dysfunctional parents, are growing up with heads full of "bad wiring", and no amount of talking, shouting, cajoling, befriending, or joking is going to keep them from getting their little asses in the proverbial sling. But a swat across the butt, when necessary, will do the trick just fine in many cases. A firm smack on the hand when a child reaches for a hot stove burner is a godsend to their safety (and the parents' peace of mind)!
Now we can also preach tolerance about anything or anyone until the cows wander home, but tolerance can only go SO FAR when it comes to "bringing up baby".
Are we ready to "tolerate" kids becoming thugs, because of a lack of discipline?
Are we ready to tolerate disrespect from them, because they know they can toss their parents in jail for smacking their ass when it's fully deserved?
Are we ready to deal with false allegations brought on by some child with a grudge against their parents because they were grounded for doing drugs or having sex?
Are we ready for all of this simply because we're no longer allowed to spank our kids?
When you let this genie out of it's bottle, rest assured it will next to impossible to put him back in.
Are we ready for the consequences we will face as parents.
Such might just be the case where the EACS note is concerned. Maybe some kids just don't "want" to be in school, and saw this as the opportunity to take the easy way out. The NAACP is busy looking for conspiracies already, so why not let all of our imaginations loose, eh? We're already privy to increasing numbers of families that pretend to be functional...with horrendous results.
And while there are those all too few instances where a single mom (or dad) succeeds with rearing their children, the opposite is most often the case. And we, as a nation applaud ourselves for making decisions we think are fair to the kids, when in fact we deny them the chance to account for their own actions (until it's too late).
My parents were strict, and I got my ass wailed (plenty) but ONLY when I deserved it, and I did NOT turn out to be a mass murderer, rapist, thief, burglar, drug user, drug seller, or vandal. I DID turn out to be a person who will question what needs questioning, and not just take things at face value, or follow the crowd off the nearest cliff because it's the popular thing to do this week. I am tolerant with everything and everyone except where blatant stupidity is practiced and nurtured.
Then I have ZERO tolerance.
But take a look at those kids today who are spared the rod....how spoiled have they become, and what lesson does that teach them about consequences? Again, it keeps coming down to ACCOUNTABILITY and PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. When you are brought up with neither, it not only shows, but it speak exactly as to HOW their children will be raised. And that is NOT a pretty picture, no matter HOW NICE your frame it.
You want to have the government raise your children, with no corporal punishment, while preaching tolerance to all, and demonstrating tolerance toward none all in the same breath. That smacks of Orwell's "1984" to me. Were I to invoke an oft-quoted passage from the Bible, I would have to say that: "You REAP what you SOW".
And from all society's youth "crops" I've seen over the past couple of decades, I'm not that sure that "farming" is all that it was cracked up to be.
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