I thought the holes were so that it semi-pinched on the skin upon impact to give an "extra" kick...

On 6/16/20 7:41 AM, Bill Prince wrote:

Most of the teachers in grade school carried a paddle whenever we had a large gathering (like when we were in line for lunch). Some of the more aggressive teachers drilled large holes in their paddles to allow them to swing harder.

I was never sure of the effectiveness of that.

bp
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On 6/16/2020 7:35 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
I remember teachers getting into fistfights with kids in HS.  Teacher was never in trouble.
*From:* Adam Moffett
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 16, 2020 8:31 AM
*To:* af@af.afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: batcrazy

One thing Steve pointed out that I can attest is a very real thing right now: _teachers can't touch the kids at all_.  Not just corporal punishment, but you can't push, pull, grab, manhandle, restrain, or anything of the sort.  They can't touch the kid at all.  My wife was doing before-school daycare at the elementary school (for parents who need to drop the kid of early and then get to work), and same rules applied to her.  She let one of the fifth graders in on the secret that the only thing she can really do to a kid is talk sternly.  She needed the bigger kid as an ally to set the tone of behavior for all the other kids.  If some troubled kid went berserk the only thing she'd really be able to do is call the police.

So I don't think it was about school shootings.  I think they just need someone around who is allowed to do something if a kid gets out of control.

On 6/16/2020 10:19 AM, Bill Prince wrote:

It's all about the escalation of threat. Somebody shoots up a school, then we have to arm all the schools (what's wrong with that idea?). Give them MRAPs too. That's a good way to spend money.

bp
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On 6/15/2020 8:11 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

When did they start having cops in schools?  Never once in my K-12 days did I see a policeman in my school.  I’ll have to ask my kids if they ever did.  Maybe I led a privileged life.

College had “campus cops” but they were kind of a joke, mostly relegated to writing parking tickets.

*From:* AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com *On Behalf Of *Bill Prince
*Sent:* Monday, June 15, 2020 9:45 PM
*To:* af@af.afmug.com
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: batcrazy

Not around here. That must be an Illinois thing. I left that place sometime around 1967.

bp
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On 6/15/2020 7:42 PM, Steve Jones wrote:

    you ever seen a podunk meth dealers arsenal?

    On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 9:33 PM Bill Prince
    <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:

        I think one of the things they want to do is de-militarize
        the police. Local podunk PDs have no business buying
        million dollar MRAPs.

        bp

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        On 6/15/2020 7:29 PM, Steve Jones wrote:

            the problem is the defund the police folks dont
            understand economics. there isnt enough money as it is
            for maintaining the police presence for the criminal
            side of things. taking that money and paying for a
            bunch of counsellors doesnt lead to having enough cops.
            Removing police from schools is a 1 percent thing, the
            other 99 percent will pull their kids out without
            resource officers. Mental health still will need
            police, they dont go to a hot environment because they
            dont have arrest powers if it goes downhill, and you
            dont want jonna the counselor having to fight the loon.

            They want to disarm the police. thats a big no,
            complete non starter. They consider the bullet proof
            vests to be a mechanism of intimidation, anyone who has
            actually had a vest do its job would never let somebody
            else go in without one.

            Maybe they try an actual wholistic approach, stop
            making everything illegal, and you immediately have
            less criminals

            stop overcharging for pleas, Mike flynn being an ally
            example I wish they would recognize. The media says if
            he wasnt guilty, why would he take a plea? I can find
            you thousands of young black men who can answer that
            question without skipping a beat.

            Get rid of plea bargains all together, make DAs
            actually work for their conviction rates at trial, bet
            you see a less burdened court and prison system right
            quick.

            Prisons cost 30-70k annually per inmate. Thats a whole
            lot of dough to put into those other programs, and over
            time that cost goes down as guards age out and dont
            need to be replaced because the cells are empty.

            defund the police is targeting a symptom of a virus and
            giving it an antibiotic (its the wrong treatment)

            On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 7:38 PM Ken Hohhof
            <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:

                For many people, that seems to mean stop funding
                the police to deal with issues like mental health,
                homelessness, domestic disputes, street vendors,
                routine discipline in schools, etc., and instead
                use that money to fund specialists, and let the
                police handle murders and robberies and stuff.

                I had a discussion with someone who is all for
                defund the police and I said if that’s what they
                mean, the term really sucks, because it conveys
                something totally different and many people are not
                going to support something that sounds like disband
                the police and then nobody handles murders and
                robberies.  Rather than saying reform the police,
                or narrow their focus, or move some of their
                responsibilities to other agencies.  But he said I
                was wrong, without really explaining why I was
                wrong.  I think he meant we can call it what we
                want to, who cares if it’s unnecessarily
                provocative.  Or maybe he really does want to
                disband the police.

                *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of
                *justsumname .
                *Sent:* Monday, June 15, 2020 6:14 PM
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                *Subject:* [AFMUG] OT: batcrazy

                is it just the 'news' that I'm reading or are
                things really going totally bathshitcrazy ?!?    
                "de-fund the police" .... is just ONE thing.

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