美国是我国深受应试教育影响的学生以及家长、老师向往的地方，很多羡慕美式教育的家长甚至不远千里将孩子送到美国读书，好像在我们的印象里，美国的教育是和谐的，课堂上师生互动，课外活动不断，其实在美式教育下，体罚也是存在的。我有一次听G君和M君聊天，G君兴致勃勃的聊起他上学时被体罚的经历，曾经的痛苦如今已变成茶余饭后的谈资。
It is not teachers. It is only the principal, because it is illeagal for teachers. When I was in school, I skip a class and they would catch me and send me to the office. "which one do you want, two days of morning detention or two legs, two paddles". I said, "shit, give me legs, give me paddles, because a paddle, it's over, fuck it over, your punishment over. Okay, now if you take detention, you have to wake up fucking early and be there at the school early, you know for at least an hour before school starts everything. So you're robbing yourself asleep. It's harder to do that than to take two paddles. Your ass doesn't hurt that long. You know what i'm saying? Like twenty minutes, your ass is done. It's all good. I sit down whatever.
Shit, I remember me and my friend Court. We went to the pricipal office one time to get paddles , and we were laughing when we walked out of there, laughing loud. And it's funny because all the person, like the secretary, whatever you know. When we come out laughing and they're like, what the fuck? They you know, they didn't really know what happened. You know, you're not supposed to come out laughing, getting a spanking. I don't even know what we did. But whatever it was, I watched my friend the pale look on his face. I was laughing my ass off and then he started laughing too, and then we just both walked. I am sure probably the assistant principal laughed after we left the room, you know, because they can't laugh in front of us or whatever.
Mr. Palmer, he didn't like punishing kids. When he would give you a paddle. It was like..., yeah, you don't see, it didn't hurt at all. Mr. Miller was the principal. Mr. Palmer was the assistant principal. And Mr Palmer, he was big. He was this big. I don't want him to be mad. But he would never really give you his all. Man, you know, he's just a sweet. He's like a big teddy bear, almost.
Mr Miller, he was smaller than him, but he wasn't small. He is just average size man. But he would whip your ass. My mom told him if I have anything on any papers, I gotta go to the principal office to get a paddling.
M: "Oh, she allows him?"
G: "Yeah, she told him personally, hey, after lunch, you need to go to Mr. Miller's office. So I got fucking paddling, man.
我上学的时候，体罚是很普遍的。除了罚站，被老师揪耳朵，拉头发都时有发生。如今，在大上海，据我所知，体罚已经相当少了，只是偶尔有学生被罚站。相比之下，美国的体罚是有过之而无不及。而且从上文看，不论是G君的妈妈，还是G君自己，其实都并不反对体罚。也许对调皮捣蛋的孩子实施一些轻微的体罚比如罚站，并不是坏事，您说呢？
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