Spank him!

[Prudence]

If that really is the school policy, I find it astonishing that other parents thought it was a good idea to allow the school to dictate the manner in which the parents would discipline their own children. Does the school also set bedtimes and monitor after-school snacks?

[€uroMeinke]

I can't help but think of Milgram's controversial experiment in which test subjects would give presumably leathal doses of electric shocks to another presumed test subject all under the direction of a man in a white lab coat.

Of course the experiment demonstrated the danger of obediance and authority, but the test was conducted among presumed stranges. How much easier it is to hurt strangers than loved one's? I think we should turn this principles office into a test lab to answer that question.

Fascinating the things you can get away with when people think you have power.