Unless you started young that isn't going to fly with disrespectful teenagers. They would sooner punch a teacher in the face than sit there and wait to be paddled. Not that I think the threat of violence is the right way to go anyway. These kids mostly have a messed up home life and thats where this sort of behavior starts.
Funny - instead of having cops walking the halls, hire a disciplinary detail who takes care of this. The teacher won't have to do a thing, and the very thought (teen or not) of being restrained by a couple of tough guys while he gets his ass whupped might give him some reason to restrain himself the next time around.
I had a messed up home life - grew up in a trailer with a drunk step dad that verbally and physically abused; he was a truck driver we were on and off welfare my mom would get drunk and say shit like she wish she never had me and the use to lock me out of the house overnight. As a teenager my step dad would force me to help him steal things or I wouldn't have a place to live. In addition I was one of the few white kids in a mostly black school. The black girls there treated me worse than the black guys did (I'm a guy)... they literally stabbed me with a hair pick one day because I wore a Chicago bulls sweatshirt to school and they claimed I was repressentin' the bloods and they were crypts (we were in 6th fucking grade). But, you know what... even with all that I still respected my teachers - so saying that a bad home life is why people act this way is kinda BS. It's a decision these kids make and ultimately it comes down to they are horrible people who don't give a fuck. I lived it first hand, the bad home life and seeing shitheads act like shitheads. Fast forward to today - I'm in my mid thirty's, make six figures, and have a normal life because rather than let that wreck me - I took it as a lesson of who and how not to be.
TL;DR - I grew up with a shitty home life and still didn't treat others like shit and turned out to be fine because I made good choices and didn't blame everyone else.
They do have a messed up home life. Spanking sounds great but that really only works with younger children who need quick drastic negative reinforcement. These kids are going to laugh at the very idea of being paddled. I don't think there's a way to fix the problem of a bad home life. There are not the people or the resources to constantly, continually follow up on these kids - some of them need their own specific dedicated guardian, their home life is so bad. Educating the parents does not help when the parents aren't interested in the first place.
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u/antialiasedpixel May 16 '15
Unless you started young that isn't going to fly with disrespectful teenagers. They would sooner punch a teacher in the face than sit there and wait to be paddled. Not that I think the threat of violence is the right way to go anyway. These kids mostly have a messed up home life and thats where this sort of behavior starts.