On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:44:37 GMT, Lew Hodgett
wrote:

I had my rear end kicked by my coach, a 6'-4", 250 lb, former pro
football player, when I was a freshman in high school.

I knew better than to let my parents know what happened.

I kept my mouth shut and got on with life.

If a teacher tried that today, they would be in court defending
themselves from a lawsuit filed by the parents.

Times have certainly changed, and not necessarily for the better.

Agreed 110%.

Almost everybody has turned into a goddamn sissy-
we need more kicks in the ass, and less sensitivity. Nothing corrects
abject stupidity quite as quick as a crack in the mouth- put an end to
the stupidity, and we'll all have a nicer place to live, city and
rural alike.

And it never took politicians to legislate that before. Parents can
do it just fine, as long as they're not threatened with jail if they
spank a kid for lighting the neighbor's cat on fire. Whiny,
self-indulgent kids grow up to be whiny, self-indulgent adults. Even
if they're good kids, they need to learn acceptable risk taking
behavior on the playground- or they grow up to be weak and timid.
Everyone used to know this crap, I don't know how it all got turned
sideways like it has.

It's ironic that as we as a species continue to breed like rabbits,
there are some idiots working as frantically as possible to make sure
that not only does every single person *survive* as long as possible,
but that we take extra care that no one need suffer anything worse
than a paper cut.