School Paddling as Discipline: Yes or No
by Should paddling be allowed in schools?
At the beginning of each school year, there are many states and many schools that will send a form home along with the student paperwork.
This form will ask your permission to paddle your child, if necessary. The parent must check Yes or No along with their signature.
With the steady rise of “Abuse” Laws, most parents are afraid to use a switch, belt or their hands to spank their children. Yet, the schools are asking our permission to paddle them with a board.
While we would love to believe that this is a perfect world and that every adult (teachers and principals included) is caring and impartial, in reality, it isn’t quite that way.
There are teachers that should not be teachers, and principals that should not be principals. There are ones that show partiality and do not gather the evidence needed before wanting to jump the gun to discipline.
Many people do not believe that paddling should be an option. Without a doubt, the schools can use more logical forms of discipline.
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Post CommentGabrielle Brothers
On September 7, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Back when I was raising my children I agreed to corporal punishment but that was 30yrs. ago. Now that I’m raising two little foster boys I most definitely say NO. As you stated there many teachers that do not qualify for the title and the same goes for principals. If we cannot use a paddle on our kids why should the school be allowed to do so.
I vote NO on Corporal Punishment in the Schools.
YES FOR PADDLING
On December 29, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Yes It should be! I vote YES! This is why kids are so disrespectful today and think they run the home and parents. We endured paddling and we turned out all right.
YES FOR PADDLING
On December 29, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Kids today have NO respect for authority and it is time to bring it back. Especially when they can get away with hitting punching kicking teachers and administration in schools AND TALK TO THE AUTHORITIES ANY OLD WAY. Bring it back..
David
On March 31, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Many time when some person tells you not to spank your child ,they have no childern of their own.Teachers have the right to keep control of their students.People that look at paddling as abuse is crazy . There is a difference. Authority today belongs to the kids even in the homes kids are running the houses because parents have been told by law and educated fools that its wrong to spank your child.Teachers must know how to deal out a spanking in order to do it right . Guidelines must always be held. If you really sat down and talked to kids they will respect you more if you discipline them in the right order.
TealRose
On February 15, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Never ever ever!!! No spanking or hitting a child – at home or in schools – period. It is abuse. And as you say … there are MANY teachers who shouldn’t be teachers – and MANY parents who shouldn’t be parents either.
It’s utter nonsense to say that the reason children etc have no respect is because they aren’t spanked !! Discipline is the answer – and discipline means to teach not to hit. I can’t hit that idiot girl at the check out no matter how slow she is or how rude, and I can’t hit an animal either because it is illegal and quite rightly I would be put in jail. How is it that any normal intelligent human being would hit a defenceless child and think THAT will teach it anything!!!