[ohiochica]

god i wish i could use paddles in school. or hell for that matter tabasco sauce. i have one 8 year old boy in my class now who thinks he is teh worlds biggest hard ass. it is nothing for him to throw a desk at the teachers, call us racial slurs and when we take him to the ground to restrain him he then displays animalistic behavior. if he acts up too bad we call mom, she comes in beats his ass right there and then and we have no more problems with him for the rest of the week.

i think when time out is used without ever backing down then it is a great form of discipline but the problem is we as humans pick our battles and dont always use it teh right way 100% of teh time. were as corpral punishment sticks in a childs mind.