My parents did not allow our teachers to strike us, period. My mother felt that if our behavior was so out of line that it merited corporal punishment, the teacher could call her about it. I guarantee you, we would have received a punishment that was greater than anything the teacher could do.
She also told teachers that, unless we were guilty of some 'crime' in school, no mass punishments. However, if we "did the crime' we did the time."
Why? Because she knew that sometimes the teacher was out of line. Since I know I had one BAD teacher, I can vouch for that. However, if "we did the crime, we also did the time" - at home.
500 sentences in one night is overkill. My son had to do the times tables (all 12 of them) as punishment and became so overwhelmed by the number of times he had to do it, that he could not get it done. The original # of 10 times tables (that was 12 times tables, each 10 times) was because he missed a question in a 'math bee'. When he couldn't get it done, 10 more times was added. I politely informed the teacher that my son was never going to write anything as punishment again - especially since he did nothing wrong in the first place. That teacher was also informed that he was making my son hate to go to school because of all the punishments for just participating in class.
So, although the teacher meant well, he was a bad teacher.
Last edited by cathyvv; 02-27-2018 at 05:44 PM.