More than 200,000 kids spanked at school
By kellys3ps
@kellys3ps (3723)
United States
August 21, 2008 3:16pm CST
According to this article from CNN,http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/20/corporal.punishment/index.html?
more than 200,000 children were spanked or paddled in U.S. schools during the past school year.
According to the article Corporal punishment in schools remains legal in 21 U.S. states and is used frequently in 13: Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida, according to data received from the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education and cited in the report.
What are your views? Should this be allowed in our schools?
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2 responses
@zeny_zion (1283)
• Philippines
21 Aug 08
if im one of the parents in that school. no! i wont allow it to happen. cause i dont spank my kid. we are paying their school to teach our children and not to hurt them. whatever problem they are encountering with the kids they must call the parents attention and not to hurt them. if that will happen to my daughter ill surely let them taste what are they doing to my kid and file a suit legally.
@jessigirl116 (848)
• United States
21 Aug 08
If we still had our parental right to discipline our kids, the schools wouldn't have to do it. I think the parents should be invited to watch the spankings. It should be held in the gym, in front of the whole student body and all the staff. There might be less problems in school if we were still allowed to whoop our kids when necessary. I whooped my son when he was about 2 1/2. He threw a huge fit, threw himself on the floor, kicked his feet and screeched really loud. I picked him up and whooped his butt. He didn't do it again. If we were in public and he started something, I whispered in his ear- 'I will take you to the bathroom and beat your butt!!' Effective. So effective that it worked on his sisters, too.
The punishment should fit the crime.
