You’d lose the farm. This isn’t 1940, 50, or 60 anymore. Your type of child-hating abuse will soon land people like you in the slammer where you get to be “punished” (read, taught a lesson) by Bubba, Snake, Rocky, and Hammer, you stinkin’ adult American idiot.

There are a lot of unruly adults in the world. If corporal punishment is such a great teacher, lets put corporal punishment back on the table for everyone. Caught speeding again? Drop yer drawers, yer gonna get a azzwhup. Late for work? Drop ‘em! Late with your paperwork? Drop ‘em! I think YOU deserve corporal punishment for the ridiculous idea that corporal punishment is good for kids. So DROP ‘EM!!

Sorry honey, caring, nice, respectful teachers don’t beat up kids. When they do, they should no longer be called nice, caring and respectful. They should be called criminals, because that is what an adult who assaults minors is. I hope you kids learn soon to stand up for each other against school and home assaults, instead of believing your authorities who say hitting is a teaching tool. Hitting does not teach. Hitting is abuse. Nice people don’t do it.

Good idea. It could read “This man assaulted a kid and is now in jail. Please don’t beat your kids, or you will be in jail too.”

Living in fear of your parent and school is no way to grow up. It makes sheeple out of people. In fact, you are still so afraid and so brain washed, that you support adult assaults on kids. It’s no wonder America’s kids are messed up. People like you with your attitude messes them up. I hope you don’t have kids, and if you do, I hope they don’t live in fear like you did.

Thanks to the social engineers, the Frankfurt School, John Dewey, Antinio Gramsci, the U.N. and the communitarians

And who is responsible for the “feels good do it” philosophy? Why that would be the kids of the sixties, wouldn’t it . And where are the kids from the sixties now? In our schools, beating up our kids for being like they were back then. I’m not surprised you couldn’t handle it and lasted only a week. Are you a savage from the 60s, with no sense of right or wrong? You certainly are clueless when it comes to what is right and good for kids. Gawd, please save our kids from savage adults.

I want to beat you with a baseball bat, for being stupid and condoning violence against kids by adults.

And teachers are supposed to teach, not assault their students. The teacher is also an ass. I say jail him, sue him, and fire him.

Most people are very confused about the difference between discipline, punishment, and assault. Are you suggesting the parents should have assaulted this kid more often like this non-teacher loser abuser did? Probably the reason this out-to-lunch kid acts out is because he IS disciplined at home, but in the wrong way. Physical punishment, I imagine.

What the teacher did has absolutely no relationship to discipline. It’s called assault, and assault is a crime, unless you assault a child or teenager at school. Then it’s called discipline? What a joke! No member of society should be subject to legalized assault. That’s just sick, and all it does is create extremes in people: people who are afraid to do or say anything or ever speak out against anything (sheeple) and people who are so enraged they will do anything (criminals). Love your children America. Stop showing he world how much America hates her children by beating them up.

JL, there is truth to what you say, but we have made a big mistake by taking all disciplinary authority away from teachers. Of course, we cannot allow teachers to abuse students, but the students know that the teachers cannot really do anything if they misbehave, so, surprisingly, they do it frequently. I went to school in the 50s and 60s when teachers still had the power to physically discipline students. I never saw a teacher abuse the privilege, and, the students who received correction later admitted that they were out of line and the discipline was justified. The result was that we knew the limits of conduct and had no doubt what would happen if we exceeded them. This led to a school and classrooms that were orderly and under control so that we could get the education that the taxpayers were subsidizing. In my opinion, not a bad system at all. This is not just nostalgia for the “good old days,” since the schools, for the most part, actually worked very well then.

We only hold the parents accountable for childrens’ actions in school when we untie the teachers’ hands and let them have the power to discipline bad behavior the right way….stop this “positive reinforcement” nonsense. It doesn’t work and decreases what little respect students have for their teachers.

Mr. Oram deserves a prison sentence for his actions. Either that or he should drop his drawers and let his principal beat on his ass? Children are not adults and you cannot expect adult behaviour from a kid. Any moron should be able to realize this. But we should expect adult behaviour from adults, especially teachers. Oram did not act like an adult, he acted like an adult criminal and should be jailed with the other, violent, out of control adults. I’m sure they know how to “discipline” unruly criminal teachers who think the class room is a cage fight.

“my own teenage children stand a foot taller than me and wouldn’t DARE even roll their eyes at me”

You must beat them fairly soundly for them to be that FEARFUL of you. I taught my children to question authority, and that NOBODY, even mom or dad may lay a hand on them EVER. My kids are both successful working grads living positive lives. Never ever had a discipline problem with them when they were kids.

When you strike any person, you are going to raise anger and hatred and fear in them. If you think that is respect, your wrong. It’s very easy to abuse a child and then make them think they deserved it and that it was good for them.

Fire the teacher and never let him teach again, and put the student into therapy to deal with his problems and the assault, otherwise, this kid will drop out as soon as he can and become either a french fry chef or drug dealer.

Yes it is a big difference – for the better. I let my children’s school know that if any teacher ever touched my kids that way that there would be serious legal problems. I also told my kids repeatedly that no one can hit them. I never had a problem because my kids learned to SPEAK OUT not LASH OUT.

The problem is that most American parents, like most Canadian parents, are simply too undereducated to understand the harm that spanking does, and too undisciplined to get the education they need to be proper parents.

If you spank, you are a child abuser in many countries. Non-spanking IS coming to North America, so you spankers better go get a course or you might end up doing time for child abuse. Which doesn’t bother me one bit.

This is 100% correct, in biblical terms the rod was used by the shepherd to steer the sheep. The sheep in this case is the child, so if you spare the rod, you spoil the child. So thanks for itterating that we should be firm with the children or they become uncontrollable.

Glad I wasn’t in school at that time. The 80′s and 90′s were hard enough on me when my parents were good friends with my teachers and they communicated everything with each other. There was no way I could get away with anything. If I did one thing wrong, I was sent to see the principal and call home (as required of any misbehaving child). That doesn’t happen with my child who does even worse than I did in the classroom.

Properly punish? What era are you living in? Right, the 70s. Seems to me the kids of the seventies were no better or worse than any other generation. Every generation says the same thing about the generation before. Researchers have shown a direct correlation between hitting kids and negative adult outcomes like chronic depression, anxiety disorder, attachment problems, post traumatic stress, alcoholism, violence, and drug addiction. Children who were never spanked showed fewer of these outcomes consistently. It’s been proven – spanking doesn’t work and leads ultimately to negative results in adulthood.

Art, you sound like a nice guy. It’s too bad though that more teachers don’t follow your lead. If you can’t cut it in the classroom, then you did the right thing.

Yeah…sure….how about put the teachers in jail for not reporting the bad behavior to the parents so they can correct the behavior. Not every child will listen to instruction whether it be from parents or teachers.

If you consider an adult who assaults and batters a kid a hero, then do the world a favour, Fred, and don’t have any kids. You’d only be passing on to them your belief system which, in this post-modern reality, might lead them to be arrested for battering a minor. Those days are GONE sir, you cannot beat up children anymore.

Giulia: you couldn’t possibly be more wrong. The students are, and always have been at the bottom. Children have no rights – not even the right to be free of assault. Children are the only citizens of the United States that you can legally assault. That’s makes them less than dogs, because there are probably laws protecting the dog, but nothing for kids.

Also, I see nothing wrong with coming to school like a heathen. If you were to walk into a church of a religion that you don’t believe in, then you’d be the heathen. Anyway, I don’t see what not believing in your particular faith has to do with this. Go Kelly Oram? Yes go. Go to jail.

There are some real punks out there…. Too bad for that teacher! The kid will continue to be a problem. The parents have someone to blame for a minute… But eventually, The kids Karma will bite him in the butt!

There is a big difference between punishment and assault. This kid was in no way punished: He was assaulted and battered by an out of control bully teacher.

The reality is that corporal punishment, which you have mistaken for discipline, does not work. In fact, it’s been proven that corporal punishment leads to poor outcomes in adult life. Kids who are physically punished become criminals, not the other way around. You can’t teach respect by being disrespectful yourself, and hitting a kid is very disrespectful to the child. Most criminals WERE spanked as kids.

Not always….especially with the strong-willed child that won’t listen to the instruction of his/her parents. Then Little Johnny goes to school in a state where laws say that teachers have to use positive reinforcement and aren’t allowed to tell them that what they’re doing is wrong. Instead of being sent to the principal’s office to call home, they’re told, “Hey…instead of having a temper tantrum, throwing scissors, and hitting the teacher…lets use our words and talk about our feelings. Then we have to get back to school work.” My kindergartner is starting early in life as a bully. Sent to principal’s office 3 times in a private pre-school and has thrown scissors and hit the teacher’s aid in the public school kindergarten class. The parents can’t correct at home what’s not reported to them from the school. I litterally have to be digging for information. After finding out what my child did, I wonder what other “minor” infractions my child commits on a daily basis in the classroom. If they keep up, we’ll probably start homeschooling.

me too!!

Yes! I also bet its some nonwhite kid too.

I’m a fellow minority so no funny business sent my way!

Me three!

but if the teach desrves it and a kid kicks a teachers ass defending oneself then ya’ll are all up in arms. hide behind the rules of tyrants. so whom is the bully in that scenario.

I’ll take the bet.

I was gonna post the same thing. You’re probably right.

whites are the minority now

Maybe if this happened more often the public school systems would have students that would shut up and learn. Good for the teacher.

He did. The kids are horrible. Setting fires cursing and actually hitting the faculty of the school. I should know I go everyday.