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For many years now, educators have been forbidden to physically discipline a child at school. In fact, teachers are continually reminded not to even touch a student except to protect another student or for self protection.
Well, guess what? The state legislature is at it again. As if there weren’t enough state issues to contend with, a new bill coming down the pike is reaching into your family’s home.
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, a Mountain View Democrat, is preparing new legislation that would prohibit parents from spanking their own children. The bill she is drafting will be broadly written, she explains, making striking a child a crime punishable by up to a year in jail or a fine of $1,000.
What better authority than Ms. Lieber, who has never had children of her own and no experience whatsoever in child-rearing? However, she explains, she does have a cat named Snoop which she apparently puts in “time out” for clawing the furniture or for poopy...
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