Corporpal punishment bringing positive results?

[proud2BlibKansan]

County School District Reinstates Corporal Punishment, Sees Positive Results
By Jim Brown
April 25, 2005

Pike County Schools banned paddling back in 1993.  However, after receiving strong backing from members of the community, corporal punishment is back in use.  Pete Dunn, the principal of Western Elementary School in Latham, says since paddling was reinstated, misbehavior among students has declined substantially.

The principal notes that students are not paddled for misbehavior if their parents do not approve of corporal punishment.  But he explains that "well over half" of the parents of the students at his school have agreed that they want that as a form of punishment, and have signed a waiver giving him permission to spank their children if they misbehave.  That, Dunn says, has led to fewer problems in the classroom.

"If you don't have corporal punishment -- and your other means of taking away recess and detentions in school aren't working -- then the only other thing you're left with is suspending a kid," the principal observes.  "So what sense does it make if you had a kid that, say, skipped school; and then you're going to suspend him and give him three more days out for skipping school?  It doesn't make a whole of sense."

Dunn, a Christian, says paddling is not only biblical, but also a strong deterrent.  The punishment, he points out, can only be administered by the building principal.  "No teachers, no one else can do that.  It's someone who's detached from the situation," he says.  "It's never done out of anger.  It's always done as a way of correction."


http://www.christian-underground.com/archive/read.php?sid=1358

[Turbineguy]

1. Hmmm.......

when I was in third grade the teacher in charge of that class did the paddling. He would humiliate kids from the higher grades in front of us. Somebody must have discovered how much he enjoyed it. One fine day we had a new teacher. A darling young woman. No more sadism in that class.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I think it is insane

I would never have allowed my own kids to be spanked at school so I cannot advocate spanking someone else's kids.

[OneBlueSky]

3. I once had a teacher -- in elementary school, as I recall -- whose . . .

idea of corporal punishment was as personal amusement for himself . . . if you misbehaved, he'd put a piece of paper or some object on the desk, and hold a yardstick about eighteen inches above it . . . the miscreant was instructed to grab the object as quickly as possible, before the yardstick descended and cracked his or her knuckles (or hand, or forearm, or whatever part he ended up hitting) . . . I don't recall him ever missing . . .

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. That is disgusting

What a sick man.

[Bouncy Ball]

5. Nothing better than regressing!

:eyes:

Let's all EVOLVE, people.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. You know it is easier and cheaper

to reinstate corporal punishment than to train teachers to be better classroom managers.

[Must_B_Free]

6. maybe in S&M school...

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Science and Math??

LOL

[UdoKier]

9. I hate the use of the bible to justify paddling but I think it has a place

I would probably sign such a waiver, on the condition that I would be consulted before the paddling was administered. I would like to know what my child had done first. In an ideal situation, the principal's paddle should be so seldom used that there is almost always a good coat of dust on it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Spanking belongs at home

It is a parental choice and a parental responsibility. I just can't ever justify it as punisment at school.

[Scooter24]

11. I support corporal punishment

but only with a parents immediate consent. When none is attained, then a "NO" should be presumed and another punishment should be given. Some parents support it, some don't.

[Telly Savalas]

12. Perhaps the crime rate would go down...

if we introduced paddling for adults.

[sandnsea]

13. Sure, of course

It worked so well that we never had social problems until we stopped spanking. :eyes:

I don't think mild spankings really hurt kids, but they don't work either. Spanking means you're failing somewhere else.

[LizW]

14. "Dunn, a Christian, says paddling is not only biblical..."

So is stoning a disrespectful child, and an unfaithful wife.

:eyes: