Corporal Punishment

[Guitar_Raph]

I saw this on World News with Diane Sawyer.

In Alabama, some 13 year old got a paddling from a teacher because he didn't misbehave, but failed his science class! His mother wanted to press charges, but can't. When an ABC News reporter went to that school to interview the school superintendant, he threw him out!

20 states allow corporal punishment in schools (Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona, Indiana, Missouri & Iowa).

Is this ridiculous or what?

[chad]

This is the craizest news I've heard as of late. Don't think they should have paddled the kid, the school should have just told him to study more. So yes I think it's ridiculous.

[Samhain]

This sounds bogus. There is no way they are legally allowed to do that. Especially in all those states.

[deadpoolRKO]

There is no way they are legally allowed to do that. Especially in all those states.



maybe not in a public school , but i live in WV and i got suspended a few times in middle school so for my first two years of high school my parents sent me to to a private christian school.


At that school , they paddled kids left and right. From elementary through 6th grade.

They could paddle them for failing classes , being late to class a few times , cursing , ect.

[Eiko]

I have no idea what happens in American schools. But here in Australia that
kind of stuff is not allowed in any school. The cane got banned years ago.

[Guitar_Raph]

A few years ago in an earlier post about Spanking, I mentioned that I had a junior high school coach who hated me!

He told me that if he ever caught me crying no matter what, he would paddle me to death! All the bullies would celebrate my paddlings!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QqN9glbl-s

Or beter yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in9tezK8ns4

And when I left that junior high school, I hummed this theme...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU9xDNpwxgQ&tracker=False

Now I'm being ridiculous!

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I have no idea what happens in American schools. But here in Australia that
kind of stuff is not allowed in any school. The cane got banned years ago.

Sweden banned it at school in 1958 (primary schools, secondary schools were much, much earlier) and at home in 1979.