i think most "civilized' countries have morls that are
going to hell in a handbasket. maybe there is some
correlation here. 

--- Linda Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> That was a good school experience and mine was
> similar altho it was 
> in  a city and altho my family did not have much
> money most of the 
> kids were from well heeled families. I think because
> of my age (62) 
> there were no discipline problems either. We were
> taught and we 
> learned. To my knowledge no one was ever spanked or
> paddled.
> Studies show paddling is bad for a child's self
> esteem and I agree 
> with www.nospank.org  that passing laws against it
> are best. Most 
> civilized countries have done so, the US has not. A
> highlight of my 
> life was giving an address in NY that Alice Miller
> was supposed to 
> give but she could not make it in from Switzerland.
> She is considered 
> the worlds foremost child psychologist, one of the
> first to deal with 
> children's issues.
> I've worked cases in states where spanking is
> allowed and they killed 
> a kid years ago, and covered it up, others were
> brutally beaten. 
> Studies also show  that the brain develops
> differently when kids are 
> brutalized at home or in school or sexually abused.
> Physical and 
> sexual violence towards children often goes hand in
> hand. So if you 
> teach corporal punishment is wrong it sets a
> different standard, a 
> humane and compassionate one.
> And check out Moses Lake WA if you think rural kids
> live good 
> citizenship cause I've worked cases where the murder
> rate (kid on kid 
> and adult to kid) in rural areas is off the charts.
> Many murders in 
> farm areas are covered up as farm accidents or
> simply accepted by 
> authorities as accidents when they are not. We are
> documenting these 
> in polygamy for instance. I guarantee you a lot of
> those East 
> European and Appalachian kids you went to school
> with were being 
> brutalized at home. it is simply a well covered up
> phenomenon.
> 
> At 02:52 AM 11/2/2007, you wrote:
> >I would be willing to put MY next paycheck on a bet
> that Linda
> >McCauley's district probably received fewer dollars
> pe
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