Word: swats
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...Gore treatment is equally controversial. He wants to send educational "SWAT teams" armed with extra cash into failing schools. If after two years that hasn't turned the schools around, states would have the power to shut the schools down and reopen them with new teachers and administrators...
...Gore treatment is equally controversial. He wants to send educational "SWAT teams" armed with extra cash into failing schools. If after two years that hasn't turned the schools around, states would have the power to shut the schools down and reopen them with new teachers and administrators...
...that of my considerably better-behaved younger brother) without dispensing a single spanking. They sent us to our rooms, sure, and grounded us or withdrew telephone privileges. But they never hit us. And even now my mother says that while she doesn?t see anything wrong with a quick swat when a kid really pushes the envelope, she just never thought of spanking as a way to deal with parent-child conflict. And most parents they knew felt pretty much the same...
...study coordinators admit spanking is a sensitive subject (no pun intended). Many parents are torn between carrying on their own parents? tried-and-true disciplinary practices and their discomfort with the idea of hitting their kids. Fierce opponents of spanking compare it to child abuse - although logically, a quick swat to the rear-end is hardly analogous to the horrors of beating a child. Fair-minded people can disagree on this - as long as we?re actually talking about a quick swat, rather than a "let?s you, me and my belt go out behind the woodshed, son" scenario...
...such callousness pales before the epic ineptitude of the German authorities, who by the account in "One Day in September" could arguably be held at least partly responsible for the athletes' deaths. With no SWAT team to call on, they assemble an unfortunate-looking squad of volunteer policemen disguised as athletes, except that the World War II-era steel helmets and submachine guns undo any camouflage effect created by their gaudy Adidas track suits, and put them into position to storm the Israelis' besieged compound. They call off the raid at the last moment, and only then realize that...