Here's my opinion on Corporal Punishment. While I did go against CP harshly in my article about child-rearing and youth rights (https://americaversustheworld.substack.com/p/youth), it was more against Authoritarian Parenting and Authoritarian Schooling than CP in of itself per se. Including striking minors with implements for minor, trivial, even completely victimless transgressions like violating dresscode, tardies, or leaving school. Though I'm cool with you guys since you're not authoritarian parents (from what I can tell) and are home educating anyways, instead of sending your kids to Prussian Day Prison.
In my opinion, the only people who should ever be allowed to give a minor CP are their own parents, as that, as pointed out in my vid, letting school teachers and other employees do it get abused, partially because the child has no leverage in the relationship, and in the U.S., partially because of immunity laws for teachers.
If my employer is mistreating me or is being unreasonable with me, and he refuses to change, I can tell him to go F himself with a cactus and go to someone else who will treat me better. If he assaults me, I can legally kill him in self-defense.
Students in (mostly government) PreK-12 schools do not have that type of negotiating power. In the Southeastern Bible Belt states where government school CP is legal and common, there are immunity laws for school employees in which they can't be criminally charged or civilly sued for administering CP to a child, even if they leave severe bruises on a disabled 5-year old. Disabled children have less protection than even death-row inmates in a sense.
"Spare the rod, spoil the child" probably meant guiding a child rather than hitting the child with implements. The root reason why this is such a problem in the Southeastern US is not Chirstianity. It's Calvinist Churchanity, which is totally different, and in some ways the opposite, of what Christ taught, but few people question that Calvinism is different from original Christianity.
YouTube won't let me post my comment, so I'm posting a modified version of it here. The original version didn't have a link, but YouTube's comment system sucks.
Here's my opinion on Corporal Punishment. While I did go against CP harshly in my article about child-rearing and youth rights (https://americaversustheworld.substack.com/p/youth), it was more against Authoritarian Parenting and Authoritarian Schooling than CP in of itself per se. Including striking minors with implements for minor, trivial, even completely victimless transgressions like violating dresscode, tardies, or leaving school. Though I'm cool with you guys since you're not authoritarian parents (from what I can tell) and are home educating anyways, instead of sending your kids to Prussian Day Prison.
In my opinion, the only people who should ever be allowed to give a minor CP are their own parents, as that, as pointed out in my vid, letting school teachers and other employees do it get abused, partially because the child has no leverage in the relationship, and in the U.S., partially because of immunity laws for teachers.
If my employer is mistreating me or is being unreasonable with me, and he refuses to change, I can tell him to go F himself with a cactus and go to someone else who will treat me better. If he assaults me, I can legally kill him in self-defense.
Students in (mostly government) PreK-12 schools do not have that type of negotiating power. In the Southeastern Bible Belt states where government school CP is legal and common, there are immunity laws for school employees in which they can't be criminally charged or civilly sued for administering CP to a child, even if they leave severe bruises on a disabled 5-year old. Disabled children have less protection than even death-row inmates in a sense.
"Spare the rod, spoil the child" probably meant guiding a child rather than hitting the child with implements. The root reason why this is such a problem in the Southeastern US is not Chirstianity. It's Calvinist Churchanity, which is totally different, and in some ways the opposite, of what Christ taught, but few people question that Calvinism is different from original Christianity.
How Christianity Changed History.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbhpUjXAfrM&list=PLkYQwSCzfVRHf5DeIK4zMsmoJ27IR3hY_&index=1
YouTube won't let me post my comment, so I'm posting a modified version of it here. The original version didn't have a link, but YouTube's comment system sucks.
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngrouplive:9/youtube-is-fundamentally-broken!:b?lid=93011209b228f97d5e6ca7cb00d8b85c95bfec9a