Realistically though, it seems like a great way to garner animosity of students against their teachers, and teachers against their handlers. Will also teach students how to more effectively and discretely break rules and disrespect power structures.
Raised more by toys and strangers than parents or extended family. I dare say real communities.
The consequences I face on the Internet - good or bad - are largely self imposed. Best wishes to anyone navigating this madness alone... yet that's largely what they get.
We don't punish consistently or provide healthy upbringings in many facets and have 'unruly' adults to show for it
Exactly — studies have repeatedly shown that consistent punishment is what gets results. If you ignore most transgressions and then randomly impose an arbitrary severe punishment you solve nothing except creating a culture of “it’s okay to commit crimes as long as you don’t get caught multiple times in a row.”
The only think being punished as a kid ever taught me was not to take the person punishing me seriously and strategies for avoiding that person.
We should do what forms them into successful adults and not worry so much about likely unattainable subjective ideals. We do far too much of this top-down imposing of ideologies with little to no data backing up their effectiveness. There is much knowledge encoded in the status quo that shouldn't be discarded lightly. Generations of kids have and continue to suffer under misguided ideology.
Eg a flick of the wrist when a toddler doesn’t listen so that they do listen when it’s a car they are about to run in front of.
I have thought about the car thing and wondered if I do the punishment wrong and make them run into the street faster.