Reader submitted item from The Washington Post
In an era when students talk back to teachers, skip class and wear ever-more-risque clothing to school, one central Texas city has hit upon a deceptively simple solution: Bring back the paddle.
Most school districts across the country banned paddling of students long ago. Texas sat that trend out. Nearly a quarter of the estimated 225,000 students who received corporal punishment nationwide in 2006, the latest figures available, were from the Lone Star State.
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Add to that, the influence of the media, and the conduct of some of the mega sports icons that are idolized even though they are very poor role models, and you get the recipe for what we currently have today -- a society that gone gone to hell.
Personally, I would be in favor of corporal punishment in the schools, but under conditions that could be subject to some type of monitoring of more than one school official, while it is being administered... Also, I would be highly in favor of the schools taking away some of the opportunity for kids to use schools, as a totally social environment, without any care for getting an education.
Stern discipline is needed, and a 'somewhat', but not a totally military-like environment in dress codes and behavioral conduct requirements. It's either that, or more moral decay and behavioral problems on the way.
If I were a betting man (which I am not) I would bet "the boys" are a part of the problem, not a part of the solution.
But wait, I forgot, nothing is the fault of little angels like this so...... the person who wrote this must be at fault.
No, it can't be the fault of the parent,,,,I know, the Teachers are at fault.
The big bad Teacher that is doing his/her best to teach the "the boys" but probably spends more time keeping order than teaching.
Any Teacher from Middle and High school, what do you think? In favor of paddling?
Now before you ask,let me answer the question that some bleeding heart is bound to ask, "How do you know "the boys" are trouble makers? Well, the post that I am replying to implies that if paddling were brought back, "the boys" would get it.
Maybe the manager from McDonald's will not have to use the paddle on "the boys" in order to get them to ask "would you like fries with that?
Teachers are better than they ever have been, and unfortunately, there are no jobs for unskilled, illiterate graduates who refuse to participate in their own learning. These students are not sophisticated enough to be nihilists; they are emotionally immature individuals who think they are owed something by the rest of us. They can pay for cell phones, cigarettes, and cars, but not health insurance. They can pay for satellite or cable TV, but not books or college tuition.
I am exaggerating a little, but corporal punishment is not going to fix the problem. The problem is parents who do not read, parents who are absent even while there, parents who are openly hostile to educators and education, and parents who do not want a better life for their children. The solution is not to spank the kids; the solution is to teach discipline, not administer it.
Do you really think paddling a sixteen year-old will make her not steal from her classmates? Do you really think paddling a middle school boy for acting up in class or huffing some solvent will make him behave? The problems we face as a society far more complex.
I just don't understand. They dont' want paddling, but then wonder why kids are so bad, PLUS can't they see that what they are (or not) doing IS NOT WORKING!??!?!
People say that spanking kids will make them be violent. But I have NEVER heard of ONE person that was spanked say they turned out to be this way.
As for 'your not touching my kid', if parents would make the kids behave, then the school wouldn't have to 'touch them'.
Schools say the kids are out of control. They say parents need to disclipline them. But what they DON"T do is cooperate with the parents and disclipline them too.
Just as teachers want parents involved in their childs education and 'help them out' (the teachers)
Then the teachers should return the favor.
WHY do the schools and parents think there's so much bullying, suicides, killing in schools? Cause the kids KNOW they can get away with causing this stuff to happen!!
What LOTS of parents don't know is that schools do NOT disclipline kids because if they did, and made written reports, they would NOT get MONEY from the NCLB laws/act.
If anyone wants proof of this, just let me know and I'll post the exact legal statutes for this.
I think if parents KNEW that schools are CAUSING and ALLOWING the kids to get KILLED because they want this MONEY, there would be an OUTRAGE!!!
As for this post -- Do you really think paddling a sixteen year-old will make her not steal from her classmates? Do you really think paddling a middle school boy for acting up in class or huffing some solvent will make him behave?
YES I DO. Let me ask YOU a question. Do you REALLY think that the 'discipline' that is given today to children is working? If so, I surely don't see it. I just can't get the naysayers of paddling, when they can't come up with a better way. They THINK it's a better way. If it is, why are the kids nowadays so crazy???
She is now 27 and never touched them.
"The solution is not to spank the kids; the solution is to teach discipline, not administer it."
How in the Hades can you teach discipline without administering it, and expect it to be effective...? Boy, that's an all time great idea, right there...
The 'Good Book' says... "Spare the rod, and spoil the child." Sounds pretty simple, but to the point to me.
No one will spank my child!! We have evolved from the days of stoning people and beating children with rods.
If you want to blame something for the mess the country is in, then take a look at the greed that has overtaken America. Children are spoiled.
Do the research over the last 10 years as to how many teachers or faculty have bitten the dust with relations with students or inappropiate acts with them. I can give you a list of people(faculty) at LCCHS prior to 2001 that could have lost their jobs for stuff that went on. Some things happened in surrounding counties too. I know a lot of info and was in the middle of some of it (student) and saw it.
If the children continue to get in trouble expell them! make the parent pay for them to go to a private school and when they threaten to kick the child out and the parents are out of a few grand then it becomes reality. Send them to a school that is set up like a boot camp. There are ways around it other than faculty perverts touching childrens butt cheeks.
Discipline has become a "now don't do that again speech" and they get sent back to class with candy in their mouth. I have personally seen this a few times at school (the child that was sent out comes back with a smirk on his/her face with eating candy the principal or asst principal gave them.)
These children have no respect for anyone and the parent's don't care and won't do anything about the "LITTLE ANGEL'S" behavior even if they really are little demon's that the parents unleash on the world so they don't have to be bothered. If these parents would get off of their butt and do some parenting instead of wanting other people to raise their child then things would be different. Don't give me that single parent rant either because I know lots of people and children that come from single parent homes and they know how to behave and have respect. I know plenty of adults and children from 2 parent homes that are total monsters and we are waiting of the police to show up and carry some of them off.
My parents had to sign a waiver for me to be paddled at private school. Do the same thing for our public schools and then if the child still can't behave with either the school or the parent giving out punishment. Put them in a little room with cubicles and that's all they get to do. Sit there and do school work with a teacher to show you how to do it but no one to play with or show off for because you won't be seen.