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Do you think paddling should be allowed in public schools? Discuss your opinions and thoughts here.

-Jessica

FOX16 Web Content Producer

Yes!  The way I remember it from my school years was that the school sent home a permission slip for your parents to sign.  The thought of being sent to the principal's office and getting a paddling was enough for most kids to do as they were asked.  Chances were then that if you got a paddling at school, you were getting one at home.  Who wants that?  If the mere threat of getting a paddling would deter most bad behaviour then, who's to say that psychology has changed even in this day and age?

ABSOLUTELY!!!!! I am the daughter of a teacher and the niece of 3 teachers. The Bible says that if you spare the rod, you spoil the child. Apparently, a great many parents have been sparing the rod, as evidenced by the current state of our public schools. Kids are being allowed to take over, and they know that there is really nothing that can be done to stop them. Principals don't support teachers; parents won't support teachers. Teachers are left out on a limb without any further recourse. If corporal punishment is brought back as an option, teachers will have more recourse, and they can spend more time teaching and less time fearing for their lives or impatiently waiting for retirement. I had one paddling, when I was in 3rd grade. One was all it took. In my day (like my day was so long ago, I'm only 28), if you got one at school, you bet you got one at home. Today's kids are running wild with no direction and no real consequences. Since many parents have left the schools in charge of raising their children, then the schools should be allowed to incorporate corporal punishment in the rearing. Perhaps if the parents would incorporate some corporal punishment, it wouldn't be necessary at school.

- Chrystal D. White, M.Ed., LAC

I personally disagree with paddling in schools did any one watch Montel Williams show last week. Not only for that reason, as a mother I feel it is my job to discipline my child. the problem is the government keeps butting in telling us how to discipline our child. so when they act up in school it falls back on us parents. well let us do our job and raise our children ourselves and if we cant do it then we should not have become parents. there is no reason for someone else to hit my child if i have done what i needed to do. so no do not bring back paddling. if my child gets hit by some one it should be me. you call me and let me handle them. why would i want someone else to raise my child.

this won't change a thing their going to fear for their lives even more because over half of the teens these days are busy joining gangs and it goes you hit me i have the right to hit back. i work at school also and this i see everyday. so paddling only brings more trouble for some.

If you look back at when the doctors started giving out drugs for ADD and ADHD it was about the same time thatthey really got started taking paddlings out of schools. I was spanked in school and im better off for it. It was the way they got my attention and it worked. My oldest boy is in school now and he tests his teachers at the start of every school year to see what hecan get by with. The teachers that will spnk him or send him to the offise to get spanked GET HIS RESPECT. He hasnt been tested for add or adhd and im not going to have him tested. I dont know of any person that has been tested and passed. I dont beleve in druging kids into submition what dose that teach them?

Hi Jessica,

Your comment is exactly why they need to have parents sign permission slips.  Not all parents, like you, feel that the school should be paddling their children, and that's all right.  You should have an option to opt out.

jessicanrio:

I personally disagree with paddling in schools did any one watch Montel Williams show last week. Not only for that reason, as a mother I feel it is my job to discipline my child. the problem is the government keeps butting in telling us how to discipline our child. so when they act up in school it falls back on us parents. well let us do our job and raise our children ourselves and if we cant do it then we should not have become parents. there is no reason for someone else to hit my child if i have done what i needed to do. so no do not bring back paddling. if my child gets hit by some one it should be me. you call me and let me handle them. why would i want someone else to raise my child.

I agree that is up to us parents to disaplin our kids but we cnt allways be there to do what need to be done when it need doing. If you can then that is differant. I am fortunat to live in a small community and know the teachers and princapal. They will call me if my kid gets into trouble and asks what I want done about it. I trust them that they wont over react and that they will tell me every thing that has happend and what they are required to do. They dont like to use spankings to disaplin they kids in the school but they will do it if it get the child learns from it and changes his or her behavior. It is also up to the parent to whether they are allowed to spank your child. I know from my experiance it works for my oldest son and time outs work with my second son. I use what ever works for the child.

i think they should to get them to listen and obey thier teacher

I completely agree with paddling in public schools.  When I was in school I had my fair share of paddling from both the school and my parents and I believe that it has helped turn in to a better person.  Today's children are getting away with way to much because corporal punishment is not allowed anymore.  I believe that if corporal punishment was allowed in school again, it would help the violence in schools decrease.

Bill

If they hit back that is where the SRO (School Resource Officer) comes in and arrest them because if they hit back they deserve to go to juvenile detention for hitting an adult and they apparently don't deserve to be in their parent's custody because apparently their parents are not doing something right.

jessicanrio:

this won't change a thing their going to fear for their lives even more because over half of the teens these days are busy joining gangs and it goes you hit me i have the right to hit back. i work at school also and this i see everyday. so paddling only brings more trouble for some.

 

I think paddling children in school would make them take it more seriously.

Anthony

I am the father of four. I do not believe that the school board should even entertain the idea of allowing corpal punishment back in the school. How is it possible to be legal, for the school to punish in that form, but not allow the parents the same option.

Jeffery

Yes I do think paddling should be allowed in public school for most part because if you mess up at school most of the time you will get it worse at home when mom or dad or both of them find out what you did.  But also in conway schools I know how they are since I went there my whole school life.  They pretty much do what they want to when they want to.

Jeremiah from Conway