Thread: How to raise a delinquent..

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When my youngest son was in High School, he was attending a Private Church Sponsored School and one day the phone at my Office rang and my secretary shouted, Emmett, it's Bo's school.

When I answered, another secretary said "would you hold for Mr. Nameless" and then Mr. Nameless got on the phone and said "your son, Bo, has failed to do the required detention after school and I need your permission to administer corporal punishment" - - - - - for a minute, I was speechless and then I said "are you asking me for permission to whip his A???" - - - and he said "Yes Sir" - - - - then I replied "you are his teacher and are responsible for him during the school day so that gives you complete authority and is what you are being paid for - - - and you don't have to call me for permission - - - - if he has broken the rules and not done what he was told then TEAR HIS A?? UP and be sure and tell him that he has another one coming after I get home"!

In August or September of 1949, I was 6 years old and had just stared the 2nd grade, I was out under a very large oak tree playing with some cars and trucks during recess. Another kid, my age, came along and wiped out a portion of the roads I had built in the dirt. Needless to say I took exception to that and the fight was on. One of the teachers saw the fight and broke it up and escorted both of us to the principals office where we both subjected to a few swats of her paddle. When I got home, I was living with my mother's parents, my grandmother paddled my butt again and when my grandfather got home it was deja-vu all over.
If that scenario was to play out today there would probably be at least three people in jail and the two combatants would probably feel as though they could get away with anything without any penalty.
This, in my opinion, is one of the major things wrong with our society today and it needs to be changed.