School Nurses

[GoldenRivet]

I remember when i was in elementary school, when i would come down with some stomach ache or headache.

I would go to the nurse, nurse would give me a peppermint and call parent, parent would say "give him a tylenol and send him back to class"

The end

neat story

but yes i understand the litigation standpoint...

what i dont understand is that we can put a man on the moon, submerge a tiny submarine to the bottom of the ocean and make a robot drill holes in the surface of a planet 35 million miles away

but we cant make a list of kids who are ok to take one advil, one tylenol or one anti-diarrhea pill

which brings me full circle to spankings

why are we not doing that at school anymore? I remember getting my butt paddled at school and the sinking realization as the day drew to a close that i was going to have to get another butt paddling when i got home.

you wanna know where we went wrong as a nation... look no further than that right there

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

why are we not doing that at school anymore? I remember getting my butt paddled at school and the sinking realization as the day drew to a close that i was going to have to get another butt paddling when i got home.

you wanna know where we went wrong as a nation... look no further than that right there

This is in my humble opinion nonsense. During the Nazi time we've had corporal punishment in schools and it obviously didn't makes us better people (ask the local Poles and Russians about that...). Is the current generations of Germans worse than my parents generation? By all accounts of the older ones yes. Funny fact is that my parent's generation already had no corporal punishment in school anymore so it can't be the cause of that.
Besides corporal punishment will open the gates for (sexual) abuse. There are actually (not so few) people who sexually enjoy beating others and I would not want my children to go to a school where someone might beat them on the rear for whatever reason especially not if a male person can spank a female student.

[August]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

This is in my humble opinion nonsense. During the Nazi time we've had corporal punishment in schools and it obviously didn't makes us better people (ask the local Poles and Russians about that...). Is the current generations of Germans worse than my parents generation? By all accounts of the older ones yes. Funny fact is that my parent's generation already had no corporal punishment in school anymore so it can't be the cause of that.
Besides corporal punishment will open the gates for (sexual) abuse. There are actually (not so few) people who sexually enjoy beating others and I would not want my children to go to a school where someone might beat them on the rear for whatever reason especially not if a male person can spank a female student.

When did you stop corporal punishment? There's bound to be a delay in seeing effects one way or the other.

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by August

When did you stop corporal punishment? There's bound to be a delay in seeing effects one way or the other.

It was abolished in 1949 in the German democratic republic and discouraged in west Germany at about the same time. West Germany abolished it completely in 1973 but at that time it had already pretty much ceased to be used anyway from what I hear. My parents who went to school during the 50ies and 60ies were not hit in school in Lower Saxony.

[Oberon]

Blimey, we didn't stop ours officially until the 1980s, but I think it had been stopped by most schools unofficially before then.

[Platapus]

I think the purpose of a school nurse is primarily to fulfill the requirement for a school nurse.

Beating kids is totally legit, don't worry everyone!
The pope says so!

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Blimey, we didn't stop ours officially until the 1980s, but I think it had been stopped by most schools unofficially before then.

You also drive on the left side of the road so you're excused.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

You also drive on the wrong side of the road so you're excused.

Fixed.