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Originally posted by Oaktree
reply to post by Agarta
What is the difference between this and a "Scared Straight" program?
Scared Straight programs are targeted at groups of juvenile delinquents, to show them possible outcomes if their behavior doesn't change.
In this case, the children were talking out of turn, hardly delinquent behavior.
Individual six year-olds (not a group) were handcuffed, isolated, and told they would never see their parents again.
Had they been told that their disruptive behavior could someday lead to more dire consequences, then we might have a comparison to Scared Straight.
How many of you parents have had a child throw a fit in public? What do you do? Spank them in front of everyone? Remove them until they calm down? Let them throw their fit without giving them attention disrupting all those around?
The answer would be "Remove them until they calm down".
In my child's school, it is called a time out.
They are not, however, cuffed and isolated, while being told they will never see their parents again.
I feel the parents could have sat their children down and helped them learn that this is what happens when you cause a public disturbance or break the law.
There was no law broken, and even causing a public disturbance (as an adult, not a six year-old) does not carry this type of penalty.
. And why can it not be done in an individual basis?
Scared Straight programs are targeted at groups of juvenile delinquents, to show them possible outcomes if their behavior doesn't change.
Originally posted by eywadevotee
So it's OK to inflict permanent psychological trauma on children by the state, but it's not OK to to spank your own children if they rightly deserve it without risking child abuse? What is this world coming to?
Originally posted by no special characters
Whehe land of the free my *ss. You guys seriously have messed up your country. Guards at school, WITH handcuffs ??? Maybe even a nightstick or a GUN ???
Damn, police state anyone ?