Smoky Mountain News reports:
In North Carolina, it’s illegal to hit a prison inmate. You can’t hit a child in a day care center. Military officers can’t hit their subordinates. In workplaces, nursing homes, hospitals and elsewhere, hitting is forbidden. It is even illegal to hit an animal.
But in the state’s public schools, there’s no ban on hitting, because North Carolina is one of 19 states that still allows corporal punishment to be used in schools.
The practice, once common, has fallen out of favor, but there are still 38 school districts out of 115 in North Carolina that allow kids to be punished with the paddle. ...
A bill just passed by the N.C. General Assembly requires school districts to get parent permission for corporal punishment at the beginning of the school year, a right already given to parents of students with disabilities last year. ...
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In North Carolina, it’s illegal to hit a prison inmate. You can’t hit a child in a day care center. Military officers can’t hit their subordinates. In workplaces, nursing homes, hospitals and elsewhere, hitting is forbidden. It is even illegal to hit an animal.
But in the state’s public schools, there’s no ban on hitting, because North Carolina is one of 19 states that still allows corporal punishment to be used in schools.
The practice, once common, has fallen out of favor, but there are still 38 school districts out of 115 in North Carolina that allow kids to be punished with the paddle. ...
A bill just passed by the N.C. General Assembly requires school districts to get parent permission for corporal punishment at the beginning of the school year, a right already given to parents of students with disabilities last year. ...
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My husband and I are unable to protect our 3 children, who we do not hit, from overhearing teachers threaten, intimidate, humiliate and hit classmates just outside class with thick wooden paddles as a knee-jerk reaction to minor infractions such as not turning in homework or horsing around, without parental consent or notification, not required per TN State law. Our local school board members ignored our written/verbal presentation at their school board meeting in April during "National Child Abuse Prevention and Awarensss Month" to demand they prohibit paddling students in our schools.
If school employees hit students with wooden paddles to inflict pain as punishment in view of the public rather than within the walls of a tax-payer funded school building, they'd be arrested for assault like any parent, police officer, lawmaker or U.S. Supreme Court Justice!
Search "A Violent Education" for disturbing Facts.
Please add your voice to the National Campaign to End School Corporal/Physical Pain/Paddling to Punish Students at Unlimited Justice dot com.
By Julie Worley
07/14/2011
Barbaric, isn't it?
By Betty Cloer Wallace
07/14/2011
I guess I grew up in barbaric times. We were so barbaric there weren't even metal detectors or guards in the schools. Girls were never hit, and boys were given the choice of the paddle/ belt or having their parents informed and having the father do it and get punished in other ways as well. Of course it was never done in front of other students. Now days it could be taped and put on-line.
By uh-oh
07/15/2011
Come on, Virgina ended this in 1989.
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Blue - banned
Red - light 'em up
By mat catastrophe
07/15/2011
Funny how prisoners and the military are better funded than students in a school in America, aka the greatest country in the world (ahem). Reagan made prison a for-profit venture, and as for the military, they're not in any danger of budget cuts- ever. Guns vs. butter.
Go ahead and beat your sons and daughters in school. But don't ask why society has gone down the tubes.
By boatrocker
07/15/2011
I grew up in those barbaric times too. I didn't turn out so bad. In fact I avoided getting in trouble so I wouldn't get spanked. Maybe the bigger problem is who's holding the paddle...
By slycos
07/15/2011
And I actually think society will go down the tubes *because* of lack of discipline. If we replace physical consequences to bad behavior with other consequences, that's fine as long as they are effective and enforced. If an adult keeps saying, "I mean it...I really mean it...I mean it this time" and doesn't do anything, that is failure.
By slycos
07/15/2011