So, let me get this straight: Texas still paddles high schoolers?

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So, let me get this straight: Texas still paddles high schoolers?

And instead of punishing the VP, they changed the rules the allow paddling of girls by men?

The parents are supposed to request it but the v-principal makes the girls call home and get permission?

How is this right?
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/25/texas-school-district-changes-corporal-punishment-policy-after-complaints/

Comments

Gaythia Weis said…
I think that the school needs to implement alternative,  much simpler, methods for punishing students who copy other's work.  This student apparently opted for the paddling as an alternative to an in school suspension. This may indicate some interest in actually being present in class to learn something.  Learning something ought to be the objective.
September 25, 2012 at 8:59 AM
Gaythia Weis said…
Do they learn the value of learning or merely something about the ability of those in power to be abusive?
September 25, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Scott Loveless said…
I had a band director who made liberal use of the paddle.  He'd have the offender come to the front and grab their ankles.  I swear to the FSM, he tried to knock them over.  This would happen a couple times at the beginning of each semester and then it was nice and orderly.
September 25, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Lynne Goodwin said…
Nolan L ... It amazes you that a kid chose to take a lick or two rather than be stuck in in-school suspension all day? Seriously? Corporal punishment hurts for a short time, then it's over - or should be. In-school suspension drags on... and on... As a mom of three kids, I gotta tell you, this makes total sense to me.

What does not make sense is an adult feeling it is okay to hit someone hard enough to leave blisters. Honestly, the idea that someone in education thinks corporal punishment is effective at the high school level leads me to be concerned about the quality of education given in that locality in general.

Idiotic.
September 25, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Lynne Goodwin said…
Whatever Nolan L ... no grown man should hit a teenage girl hard enough to leave injuries - regardless of whether they've received permission by parents, teen, God, or the government.
September 25, 2012 at 9:28 AM
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