He then stated that it was a lesson he never forgot and from that day forward when the music started to play his hat came off and he stood up.
Nothing severe, or extreme, just a tap on the back of the head and a question, and he never forgot the lesson.
If that were to happen today, there would likely be a few lawsuits against the school district and the principal, and the principal would lose his job; all for trying to teach a child to respect the flag and our nation.
I’ve mentioned this before, and will likely do so many more times, our society today has gone too far. The authority has been taken away from people who should be authority figures, and then the same people who chastise those who would discipline our children throw their hands up in dumbfounded amazement and confusion as to why children in the schools today are having so many disciplinary issues.
Somewhere along the line, someone thought it would be a good idea to empower the youths of today long before they are mature enough to manage that responsibility.
To some extent, even parents have had their responsibility of disciplining their children taken away from them. Years ago I can remember seeing a woman in a store with a rowdy toddler, and another woman asking the young mother to please control her child. When the mom grabbed the child, the same woman then rebuked the mom “Don’t you grab that child and abuse her in that way!”
I’m sorry people, but you can’t have it both ways. If you want to see well behaved children, keep your noses out of how they are disciplined.
Now, by no means am I intending this to be a blanket statement which would allow physical abuse to go on. I admit I have spanked my children in the past, and if they engage in behavior that warrants it, they will be spanked again. But this is not abuse. I don’t have the children line up for nightly beatings. Bad or disrespectful behavior = a few swats on the butt and possibility a grounding. It depends on the behavior.
Yes, there are some children out there who will never need to be spanked. These are the few children who for whatever reason, were born with good behavior. If they are told no, they don’t try whatever it was they were trying again. If they are asked to stop doing something, they stop. I should note here, that children like these are freaks of nature. Most children do NOT behave in this fashion. Children are driven by curiosity, and that curiosity often leads to undesirable behavior. It is the responsibility of the adults in the world to correct that behavior. If the behavior continues, the correction needs to be a bit more attention getting than before. This, my friends, is called discipline.
Embrace it, and accept that if it is not used in our schools, our homes, and anywhere in the world that a child may misbehave, we are going to have a generation of children that will be feared.