Corporal Punishment in the news

Postby truly_trussed » Thu Sep 27, 2012 3:52 pm

Go to your favorite search engine and type "AP Springtown Texas" and read about how Springtown, TX enhanced its policy on CP in the school system.That article should appear in quite a few sources. Perhaps someone could make a link to that. CP (paddling) by adminstrators is allowed in 19 of the 50 states. By contrast fraternity hazing which often involves paddles is a crime in 44 states. Geographically, legal CP in the schools is for the most part confined to the hinterlands in the South East and South Central states. Of the 100 largest school districts in the U.S., it's banned in 97 of those districts.

Feel free to opine especially those outside the U.S. I believe the UK outlawed CP (especially caning) in the State (what we in North America call Public) Schools in '83 and the "public" (what we call private or parochial) schools in '98. How enlightened is it in your neck of the woods?

Better yet, was anybody out there actually on the receiving end of a paddle or cane? love to hear your thoughts. Again, if someone could post or paste the article, I'd be grateful. What say you?

Re: Corporal Punishment in the news

Postby xtc » Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:20 pm

Talk about getting priorities wrong: in England (Scotland has a different legal system) caning school children was still allowed after corporal punnishment had been banned in prisons!
It makes me feel ashamed but I'm disgusted that beating young people is still legal anywhere in the USA; but what can one expect from a country that imprisons teenagers with no hope of release and still subjects people to judicial murder?
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Re: Corporal Punishment in the news

Postby Kyle » Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:40 pm

Paddling as a school punishment is a joke. When I was in school it was the same kids who almost always got paddled. Very few of them cared. Many saw it almost as a badge of honor. It's just pointless.

I never got paddled in school. I came close one time but got off with a long writing assignment. I wish I'd gotten paddled and just gotten it over with instead. And that's the problem with it.

Re: Corporal Punishment in the news

Postby truly_trussed » Fri Sep 28, 2012 5:01 pm

If you don't mind me asking Kyle, what was your transgression?

Re: Corporal Punishment in the news

Postby Kyle » Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:01 pm

truly_trussed wrote:If you don't mind me asking Kyle, what was your transgression?


Making too much noise in the library.

Re: Corporal Punishment in the news

Postby Jason Toddman » Sat Sep 29, 2012 8:08 am

I never got paddled but had my hands slapped with a yardstick once in 8th grade. I simply smiled at the teacher and got her so irritated she broke the yardstick in one of her whacks, and then exiled me out into the hallway. Ironically it was my science teacher, and science is generally my best subject - but she was a lousy teacher. I was being punished for correcting her about something she got wrong - something she did often enough that I mocked her about it. I was a real prick at age 13. Luckily I had much better science teachers in high school.
Oh, and here's an easy link to the new story truly Trussed mentions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... story.html
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Re: Corporal Punishment in the news

Postby drawscore » Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:07 pm

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