Georgia school to bring back paddling

[pnwmom]

21. That's what you think. I went to two schools with different policies during the same time period,

unlike you, who is clearly looking back at your experience of vicarious child abuse with rose colored glasses.

In my first school it was legal, and happened, and as a child who never got into trouble, I was HORRIFIED by the paddle on the wall of the classroom and hated the teacher for using it, no matter how "guilty" the offender was.

In my second school in another state it was not legal. The students there were every bit as well behaved as the kids in the first school where the teachers engaged in abuse.

There is no data at all that shows students are more well-behaved in schools where corporal punishment is legal. In fact, the data shows the opposite -- as borne out in my own experience. There are much better ways to encourage students to behave than by using the threat of brute force.