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Jessica Fox 🏴's avatar

Disgusting

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Pamela Cass's avatar

Hope you Oklahomans whose children you don't mind having other adults beating enjoy the nursing/senior home those kids are gonna put you in.

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Mark's avatar

If some jumped-up Bible-thumping two-legged baboon decided to correct any child with the rod, I'd correct him with a two by four to his empty pumpkin head.

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Alemany's avatar

Sickening

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Furiouser and Furiouser's avatar

β€œScripture” is a made-up book of stories designed to help people avoid common health concerns like trichinosis and women. Go ahead and sacrifice a goat for me next time you fire up the grill.

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gratuitous's avatar

I have a disciplined regimen in mind for Sen. Jett. It involves swift administration of discipline whenever he says something profoundly stupid, and needs to be caught up retroactively.

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Bruce's avatar

"how the child is going to perform his or her duties in the classroom,"

GAAAH! children are not in school to "perform duties" they're there to learn, you sadistic numpty.

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T L Mills's avatar

Tellingly, these so-called "christians" cherry pick passages from the OLD TESTAMENT which was rejected by a Rabbi by whose name they have taken to call themselves. From what His preachings teach, He wouldn't be very impressed by any of them. Why don't they look for justification for their worst impulses from the New Testament? Because the New Testament probably doesn't offer ANY justification for physical abuse--which is what beating and spanking truly is.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

Hey, Oklahoma! Wonder why your state's crime rate exceeds New York City's? Guess what--beating kids tends to turn them into criminals. Yeah, it's true, and do you need FACTS on that? How about Adrian Raine's Anatomy of Violence?

Of course, you don't actually encourage "reading" there, because the kids might just find out how fucked up your whole program is.

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Daydream Believer's avatar

They could probably make money if they’re into β€œdisciplining” consenting adults. As one BDSM masochist lamented β€œEveryone wants to be spanked, but no one wants to do the spanking.” It would be a win win all around.

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Ian's avatar

It's basically a scientific law that if a piece of legislation does any amount of actual good at all, no matter how small or seemingly universally agreeable, the legislative body will have at least one republican that will oppose it.

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Led Tassle's avatar

"Duties in the classroom," you say?

I don't think I want to know a six-year-old who isn't a dreamer, or a sillyheart. And I sure don't want to know one who takes their student career seriously. I don't have a college degree. I don't even have a job. But I know a good kid when I see one. Because they're ALL good kids, until dried-out, brain-dead skags like you drag them down and convince them they're no good. You so much as scowl at my niece, or any other kid in this school, and I hear about it, and I'm coming looking for you! Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face! Good day to you, madam.

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Daydream Believer's avatar

Thanks, Uncle Buck. ;)

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Hobbes17's avatar

As an elementary school teacher who has been assaulted a fair few times by children with complex needs, I can confirm tha clear boundaries and expectations, relationship building and empathy are the way to improve behaviour and reduce violence. All the research and advice from specialist schools and confirms this. These violence obsessed freaks make me so angry. The last thing children need is to be assaulted. Fear and anger are not stable foundations for education or social and emotional development.

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Bruce's avatar

"Fear and anger are not stable foundations for education or social and emotional development."

But theyre GREAT for making a brutal authoritarian state.

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Jens TINGLEFF's avatar

I hope the good voters of Oklahoma love the Senator very much. With votes...

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Patricia Jones's avatar

I don’t think I could handle someone spanking my child at school, especially if they were special needs.

All school staff should be educated with skills to deescalate such situations. I can’t imagine a parent allowing this, parents know their children better than anyone else. It’s simply abuse, nothing else! In special Ed programs children that tend to exhibit aggression are to be on 1:1 staffing which is usually funded by the federal programs, if they are not on a 1:1, could be that someone controlling the money needs to be checked in to.

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Demodocus's avatar

Fairly sure you won't find 'emotional disturbance" under the dsm. Granted, you can still find asexuality there, so the dsm's hardly perfect, but the phrase sounds like the kind of term they used in 1934 when deciding who they should sterilize for the "good of society"

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Bruce's avatar

"the kind of term they used in 1934 when deciding who they should sterilize for the "good of society""

And these are JUST the kind of folks who bemoan how we don't 'cull' the undesireables, who say feeding the homeless is like feeding wild animals, then go to church on Sunday and loudly bray how pure and holy they are in the eyes of their gawd.

Moloch.

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