Spare the Rod?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

I think that's an appalling thing to do to child. T-shirt included.

That doesn't surprise me.

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Give me that leather, metal grommeted belt and let me wail on you for just a minute, for one goddamned minute, and THEN stand up and tell me you weren't injured.

I've had worse and so have you. Whether it works or not, is debatable, and has been at length. I'm not qualified, nor have the desire, to dictate to parents how to raise their kids.
I probably would, however, take the position they aren't allowed to eat their young... as least their own young.

[Pico and ME]

I like the t-shirt idea, but highly doubt that the girl actually wore it while at school...she definitely had a spare in her backpack. Making her post it on her Facebook page? IDK, it might have an impact.

The belt whipping? Probably way too late for the offense. The parent should have know problems were occurring much sooner than the report card. So yeah, bad parent. But she should not have been arrested! That girl is lost forever now.

I had a similar problem with my stepson...he did bring home a card that had all 'f's. It wasn't entirely surprising at the time because we had been struggling with him for months and months before, but it was a rude awakening that nothing we were doing was getting to him at all. I did change our attack angle and it improved his school performance pretty quickly. He was a social butterfly (like this girl), so we had him bring home a paper with teachers signatures that he turned in his homework and maintained a C average. If he missed just one signature or didn't have the paper, he was grounded for that night from everything. Seriously, it worked like a charm.