Only a one year suspension?

Here is the background on the story. An elderly bus monitor, Karen Klein, was verbally assaulted and insulted by middle school students. These insults were not simply “you are ugly”, they went so far as to say things such as “If I stabbed you in the stomach, my knife would f***** go through like butter, because it’s all f***** lard” (quote Daily Mail article). Yes, you read that correctly. A group of 7th graders said this to a 68 year old woman.

In what world do teenagers even remotely begin to think it is okay to lodge such insults against an elderly person? Not only that, but in what world do teenagers even speak like that to anyone? While I hold the young punks responsible for their action, this would not occur without the failure of their parents – I am using “parents” quite loosely. Although I was raised in a secular and quite permissive household not exactly known for its high morals and refrained language, never would I nor my sister dare utter such words towards an elder, and at least speaking for myself, against any other person.

It seems to me the argument in favor of corporal punishment grows louder each and every day. This applies not only to the classroom but also on the bus. Set the rules, make them well known, be clear there will be no tolerance of violation, and inform all of the consequences should there be any violation (which there would be). Any who break the rules receive a nice ass-whooping in front of all their peers. But of course the school board will defeat that because of the obnoxious parents which virtually govern the body because it is subject to election. Ideally this would be eliminated and school attendance become voluntary so that they may properly punish a child by banishing him from attending if physical punishment does not work.

Yet this all seems to fall back onto the parents. We see adults of all stripes doing ridiculous, childish, and rude things which make us want to see them punished too. At least I do. And what better way to do this than to subject them to embarrassing punishment among their peers? I agree wholeheartedly with The Mad Monarchist when he said we should even use corporal punishment on adults.

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