Post #271

story time admin was once in charge, with some other adults, of devising a punishment for a group of teenagers, 17-19yo maybe. they basically went out of their way to do things they werent supposed to do, and ended up arriving over an hour late to lunchtime, where a lot of other people waited for them to arrive for over half an hour before starting the meal the "adults" group had a brief meeting about what could be an appropriate punishment, and over and over again, they would think of bad punishment. "we could make them eat under the sunlight instead of under the shadow". "how about we leave them without dessert?". "tomorrow we will make them wake up an hour early". those all were rejected because you arent supposed to fucking harm kids. no physical punishment. no playing with the food access, under any circumstances. putting them under a summer sunlight in high heat hours was, definitively, not acceptable. and it was made clear the sort of punishment ideas that were going to be rejected, yet still mostly everyone kept returning to them, because they had a hard time to think of an actual real, normal, acceptable punishment. and admin thinks about that experience often. everyone who is in charge of other alive beings should constantly reevaluate what they do. it is extended practice to limit access to food to kids as a punishment, even if it is just "no dessert", but sometimes they lost access to a whole dinner for example. and that is not acceptable. if anyone here, at any point, has thought that food is a privilege that kids, or adult people, or animals, can lose just because they did something "bad", they need to reevaluate themselves