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B4 Wednesday March Two receive milk awards Two Halloa milk producers rece Bold seal awards for high quality milk at the recent Committee meeting Wally of Farms Georgetown and Stan Hater of Staodale also of were the recipients Vi a ten also won a silver tray for top quality milk in Halloa NEILS MUSIC ST GEORGETOWN Phone Now forAppointment 8774919 Cathy of thinks DIET CENTER greatest SO WILL YOU Cathy in I t many other um I I coma to Dot lost Ibi in although I am only fel I fort and lot of energy on thu wail diet I neve warn hungry Now I Diet Cantor reguta for their FREE up maintenance program year to help ma man my now weight Diet Cental la eat WEU HOP YOU TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR AT DtET CarTER CAN LOSE to IN JUST WEEKS CAU A COUMSaOR WHO CARES 70 Mill St Old Pott Off li 8772900 More ways to warp a child than strapping parents screaming Back to the Basics teachers trying to remember what the basics are and Ministries of Education never letting the left hand know what the right hand is trying to do Us almost inevitable that the subject of corporal punishment in the schools is Itsaperenmal and it always good for a headline whether you arc for or against It almost as popular as capital punish ment for criminals And you have no idea gentle reader how many people including students are in favor of that I quite sure that a referendum would show a majority of Canadians would vote to re store that particular form of official mur But while criminals make up a com para lively small segment of our society rotten kids are always there in great bers And there always someone who wants to pound them vicariously through the school system I Usually the business of beating kids is seen in black or white Or black and blue On the one hand jou have the who go back to the Old Testament Spare the rod and spoil the child These people forget that several of the disciples were fishermen and that what this particular one meant was If you don let the kid use your spare rod once in a while he grow up to be a angler don t remember Jesus ever saying anything about pounding kids but I may be wrong On the other side of the are the other crazies psychologists and such who think a kid who is thumped will be warped for life mother who read articles by psychologists and former child beaters who are now Andinbctwecn as usual arcallthecon fused decent and sensible people like and me who have Riven our kids the odd belt and felt rotten about it Both the extreme camps of course are full of crap In the first group we have people who were whipped unmercifully when they were kids and now by some weird type of logic insist it was good for them They can hardly wait to spread some of this good around And in the second group are all other people who were whipped unmercifully when they were kids and are trying to prove that that is what has made them queer ever since A plaque on both their houses Most of us were whipped now and again but not unmercifully and we deserved every stroke of the hairbrush skelp of the yard stick and swish of the willow switch It warp us phys or psvcho logically It taught us something about the society we would be living in as adults and if you transgress then you take your licks My mother used to work over my kid brother and me about every two weeks whether we needed it or not She used a fly swatter which has a sting like a scorpion or a yard stick which transfers fire to the bum when we got under the bed and the fly swatter t reach It did us no harm whatever and probably saved her My dad like most men leaving the dirty work to the mother rarely laid a hand on us But when he did boy some hand He could spank your whole bottom not just one buttock at a time with that hand The same kid brother and I were in the same class in school one year and once a week our teacher would give us a good strapping along with a few other We thought the world of her and she of us Tin strappings stung but once In a while we Jerk back our hand and Old Mary would give herself a good crack on the thigh Thisdoubledthenumberoaefech hand but raised our status in the class ve smacked my own kids occasionally and the but their smoldering anger and mine never lasted more than minutes because the smacking was not done In malice and they knew tney were asking for it Beating kids in school Many parents would like it done Many others would have a lawyer on Thereare only two rea sons for a teacher to use a strap 1 he or she is a poor teacher it adds a little drama to the humdrum of the classroom In years I never seen strapping scare anybody or deter anybody There are many more Insidious ways to warp a child s personality than physical punish ment The real sadists of the classroom they are very few nowadays are those who use personal harassment hectoring and sarcasm These can do far more dam age than a good thump Ask any kid In whole debate naturally my sympathies are with the teacher There are times when would have been happy not just to whip but to strangle some kid and go to Jail for life meaning five years with good behaviour Looking back I most wish I had It s peaceful in prison But I have no time for the bully in the classroom Teachers who know their stuff and have some strength of character have a few discipline problems However let think for a moment about the sensitive young woman teacher who asks a lout to do something and he Screw jou So the punk gets a suspension for a lev days translation holiday And the teacher sits shattered among her crumbled ideals What to do d turf him out of school for a year and let his parents put up with him Serve both parlies right Any opinions Let have them Cbmputer Save up to WOO with Model III Model III system choices Set up an affordable Model III word or data processing system Just add SCRIPSIT word process or VisiCalc financial planning software and begin to computerize your business operations Radio Shack makes it easy Now the practical desktop com puter is an exceptionally cost 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