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Shrykull
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If the kid hits you at that age, charge him with assault and kick him out of the house.
How would this work, you call the police, they pick him up, and bring him to juvie, then a group home thereafter? I thought you can't throw them out if they're under 18.

Also, did you ever get hit as a kid? What kind of punishments were you given?
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Shrykull wrote:
If the kid hits you at that age, charge him with assault and kick him out of the house.
How would this work, you call the police, they pick him up, and bring him to juvie, then a group home thereafter? I thought you can't throw them out if they're under 18.
I'm not sure what the cut-off age is. But regardless, the point is that a kid does not act like that at age 16 unless he was raised wrong to begin with.
Also, did you ever get hit as a kid? What kind of punishments were you given?
Of course I got hit as a kid. My parents were immigrants in the 1970s, for fuck's sake. My conclusion on this matter is based on logic and the studies I've seen, rather than the egotistical line of reasoning that says I turned out perfect therefore I must have had the ideal upbringing.
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Darth Wong wrote:So if a Grade 11 math teacher gets a class full of students who breezed through Grade 10 math thanks to a negligent teacher despite not even understanding negative numbers or basic algebra, it's his fault if the students can't learn two grades worth of math in one year, or get bad marks on his tests?
This is one advantage of standardised national testing at the end of every year. The overhead is annoying, but it does at least track actual student progress (to a zeroth approximation anyway).
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