[Vision2020] Something has got to be done . . .

[Nicholas Gier]

A little historical perspective and synchronsity is instructive on this
point.  In 1648 Sweden abolished corporal punishment in its schools, but in
the same year the Puritan fathers of Massachusetts made child disobedience
a capital crime.  The Old Testament requires that a disobedient child be
stoned to death in the town square.

That Puritan "blue" law was on the books until the sometime in the 1960s.
Recently, Sweden has now banned corporal punishment of children to every
single home and barn in the country.

America has a cruel underside that will take decades to clean up, and our
children will continue to suffer until that is done.

nfg

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Sunil Ramalingam <
sunilramalingam at hotmail.com> wrote:

> The laws might still be on the books, but do any Idaho school districts
> actually use corporal punishment today?
>
> ------------------------------
> From: starbliss at gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:40:38 -0700
> To: moscowcares at moscow.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Something has got to be done . . .
>
>
> If it is against the law to strike an adult (battery), and can land
> someone in jail, I fail to comprehend the logic (legally, morally or
> psychologically) in allowing legal "battery" against children!  And
> sponsored by the State, in public schools, on top of that!  Adult prisoners
> guilty of horrible crimes, snared in the justice system, who it might be
> argued are candidates for behavior modification via inflicting physical
> pain, are legally protected against such treatment!  Yet it is acceptable
> to treat children in this manner?
>
> The legitimization of physical violence in our culture is a subject which
> of course could fill a tome or two.  But the practice of legal state
> sponsored violence against children in public schools in the USA is
> barbaric, and a symptom of pathological social/political dysfunction.
> ------------------------------------------
> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
> wrote:
>
> "Many states have outlawed corporal punishment in schools, but it remains
> legal in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
> Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North
> Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming."
>
> *CBS News*
> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/corporal-punishment-still-used-
> in-many-us-schools/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab6a&linkId=28019626
>
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>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares"
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
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understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.

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