Worse still are those who rush to judgment on the basis of prior knowledge of a student or hearsay accounts of an event that leads to wrongful paddling that is irreversible and even worse are those who paddle in proportion to their spontaneous outrage. Thanks for starting this thread. IMO TWP II was getting inundated.
MIGHT IS RIGHT
A GUNG-HO ATTITUDE
If I attempted this sort of critique in any high school in your country, I’d probably be deported as an undesirable alien. If YOU attempted it, you’d be lynched.
This has been exacerbated by 30 years of right-wing governments run by the military, a Supreme Court packed with ultra-conservatives(great idea of Ronnie Reagan’s)with the one guy who could have tackled it too busy having fun with Monica Lewinsky.
there’s a difference between being sentenced by an impartial judge after being proven guilty, beyond reasonable doubt, to the satisfaction of a jury of ones peers, and being sentenced by one’s accuser. We don’t live in constant fear of being wrongly gaoled because the protections provided by the criminal justice system make that event extremely unlikely.
Some teachers will give a child a fair hearing, and the benefit of any doubt, but not all will. If the police had the power to just arrest you and send you straight to gaol, without having to worry about trivialities like evidence or a trial, would you be confident they wouldn’t abuse that power? Wouldn’t you be even a little fearful that you might be wrongly targeted?