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    USA TODAY‏Verified account @USATODAY Sep 12

    Some parents have already agreed to letting the school spank their children with wooden paddles.https://usat.ly/2COH5EX 

    7:40 AM - 12 Sep 2018
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      2. Joann Sarcinella‏ @JoannSarcinella Sep 12
        Replying to @USATODAY

        These parents are putting more of the responsibility of raising their kids on the teacher. Same ones that use school as daycare. Start raising and educating your own children!! Education starts at home!

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Trevor Polas‏ @trevorh321 Sep 12
        Replying to @JoannSarcinella @USATODAY

        The children are at school and they need discipline while they are there. I know from personal experience the difference. Discipline matters.

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Jared Wales‏ @jaredwales13 Sep 12
        Replying to @trevorh321 @JoannSarcinella @USATODAY

        Beating kids doesn’t make them disciplined. It actually makes them less disciplined. Every hardened criminal didn’t become that way because they weren’t beaten. The overwhelming majority of them had been beaten, and it didn’t work.

        2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
      5. Joann Sarcinella‏ @JoannSarcinella Sep 12
        Replying to @jaredwales13 @trevorh321 @USATODAY

        I don't believe that all hardened criminals were beaten to a pulp in their homes, discipline is not always a physical assault. I believe I disciplined my children and I have never put a hand on them. These hardened criminals probably were never shown any kind of discipline.

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      6. Jared Wales‏ @jaredwales13 Sep 12
        Replying to @JoannSarcinella @trevorh321 @USATODAY

        Some people think you need to beat someone enough times until they start “acting right,” but that philosophy does lead to excessive use of force, and many violent offenders have lengthy histories of childhood abuse, not just abusing others but being abused themselves.

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      7. Trevor Polas‏ @trevorh321 Sep 12
        Replying to @jaredwales13 @JoannSarcinella @USATODAY

        You are talking about exceptions. We can't coddle kids. They need discipline or they turn out like like mindless, wimpy liberals.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. oiRaZan‏ @nariozario Sep 12
        Replying to @USATODAY

        So, if the teacher misbehaves, does the parent get to go full UFC on that ass?

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      1. Adele‏ @Contented2851 Sep 12
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Anyone who spanks a child of mine is going to get spanked back and not by my child!

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      1. Bill Blakely‏ @BBlakely77 Sep 12
        Replying to @USATODAY

        If anyone expects anything intelligent or moral coming from the Bible belt they'll be disappointed

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      2. NC SmokeyDee‏ @smokeydee44 Sep 12
        Replying to @USATODAY

        I went thru this in the 70’s..it don’t work.

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      3. Trevor Polas‏ @trevorh321 Sep 12
        Replying to @smokeydee44 @USATODAY

        Oh yes it does!

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      4. NC SmokeyDee‏ @smokeydee44 Sep 12
        Replying to @trevorh321 @USATODAY

        We just got immune to it..then the principal started injuring kids with it..

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Trevor Polas‏ @trevorh321 Sep 12
        Replying to @smokeydee44 @USATODAY

        Sounds like you went to a liberal school.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. NC SmokeyDee‏ @smokeydee44 Sep 12
        Replying to @trevorh321 @USATODAY

        Straight South Carolina conservative..72-76..I look back and it was also old school racist.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Trevor Polas‏ @trevorh321 Sep 12
        Replying to @smokeydee44 @USATODAY

        Of course it was racist. Everything is racist. Remember that. It always works, too! Use it liberally.

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      8. NC SmokeyDee‏ @smokeydee44 Sep 12
        Replying to @trevorh321 @USATODAY

        No prob

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      2. BlueJay_NE‏ @TANickMA Sep 12
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Normal adults don't want to lay hands - or paddles - on other people's kids. Abnormal adults, on the other hand, will look for all sorts of excuses to help feed their sick impulses.

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      1. Jeff Clark‏ @Jcraftman4u Sep 12
        Replying to @USATODAY

        Bad decision on both parents and school but hey it is the south.

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      1. Mr. Mustard‏ @mattlcholmes Sep 12
        Replying to @USATODAY

        I swear if someone hit my kid with a board, I would reciprocate.

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