Is standing in the corner forbidden now?

I know that in today's "improved" public school
systems, with their hypersensitivities about
everything, and stacking the deck against the little
Anglo males, some things that were once a common part
of the education of our youth, are now taboo. Is standing
in the corner a no-no now? I can remember being sent to
the corner of the classroom in 1st grade once (1963-'64
school year) and I don't think I was too damaged in life
by it. I can remember thinking it was kind of neat standing
there staring at the corner of those cement block walls.

BTW, my 1st-grade teacher still lives (well into her 80s now)
and her home is just a quarter mile from my Mom's house.
I think I'll drop in one day and scream at her for ruining
my life for making me stand in the corner that day.

But getting back to the nutty schools now...It cracks me up
when I hear about all the "counselors" ready for the hypersensitive
kids now whenever some classmate is killed in an accident, say.
(It's no wonder that the amount of money (largely) squandered on
public education today is astronomical; and it ain't producing better
students from what I've seen...) Hells bells, kids died and got
killed when I was young too, but we never needed any "counselors."

It always amuses me when I hear some stupid TV news monkey, or
school official, blubber that students are "trying to make sense of"
or "trying to understand" how some recent tragedy could have happened.
Then of course comes the cursory mourning, complete with hugging, crying
kids in from of the cameras, and (usually) cursory roadside memorial
featuring flowers and other mementos, including a teddy bear
or two sometimes. We recently had a typical case of three teens
being killed in a car wreck. The 16 year-old driver was a junenile
delinquent whose granny (who was raising him) was about to ship him
off to military school or some such when the wreck happened. I believe
the car he was driving had also been reported stolen. Anyway, there was
the usual cooing about how the young girl (who was such a wonderful person)
in the car being killed like this just didn't, you guessed it,
make sense. Well, when a wonderful teenage girl gets into a car with
a junenile delinquent past midnight, and he takes off at 80 mph on a
residential road and loses control, it's pretty easy to make sense of
it, i.e. do something reckless and stupid, and you can likely die. But
I guess they're still trying to make sense of it.

--
Graham