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>>>Sorry.. I was talking about the law on corporal >>>punishment in schools since Tom makes the connection >>>between church practice and caning in schools. I was >>>just trying to make the point that the use of a >wooden >>>spoon for disciplining children was very common in >>>community way after corporal punishment had been >>>banned in schools... so it's not just a case of the >>>church following the social practices of the day as >>>Tom seems to be implying. >> >>Well ..... what can I say? I have two kids - I never >>did it. My friends in the JA had kids ..... they never >>did it. Soem kids I know who grew up in the JA [you >>still about Jodie ;)] have openly said it happened to >>them but whether it happens now is debatable. >> >>I was simply saying that in times gone by, even in >>wider secular society, such punishment was acceptable. >>How much of that is brought in by proxy and how much >>is actually taught in the JA is what I am trying to >>ascertain. >> >>Again all I can say is that I was never taught it and >>I would not have done it awyway as to me it's >>tantamount to child abuse - end of. Knowing many >>younger parents the very idea would have been as >>abhorrent to them - hence my comment about it perhaps >>being a generational thing. > >I can accept that you and your friends never used a >wooden spoon but I find it hard to understand why you >were unaware that this was church teaching. It was >definately JA teaching and was not just a generational >thing. Parents I knew who were in their 20's >threatened their kids with wooden spoons and used >them. And they were doing this because of what they >had been taught in the JA - it wasn't something they >had always done and others on here have testified to >this. It may have changed now, because of new laws but >this was the teaching in the past. It's funny how you >are so quick to assume Noel is not talking literally >on the video when you have not seen it - sorry if this >offends you but you do seem to be a little >over-defensive about this.
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