‘Hitting kids should never be allowed’: Illinois bans corporal punishment in all schools
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Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools implemented 30 years ago.
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This issue is one of the only debates in the world that I don’t have a strong stance about. How the hell do you balance the fact that the kids are evil little (or large) monsters in desperate need of discipline with the fact that the ones passing judgement on them are no better?
First, kids are kids. They're chaotic, and almost never actually evil. It is better to think of them as wild animals.
Second, who said the ones passing judgment are no better? It sounds like your opinion, not supported by fact.
Teaching a child "I will hurt you if you don't do what I want" is called bullying. That's why we stop children doing it to other children.
It teaches them nothing but to fear you and possibly to pass that idea that children should fear their parents on to their own children.