Fight the Paddle Texas State Capital Dec 3rd, 2010

[stopschoolpaddling]

Run time: 15:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXh3qFZyhYg   Posted on YouTube: December 06, 2010 By YouTube Member: paulaflowe Views on YouTube: 120   Posted on DU: December 10, 2010 By DU Member: stopschoolpaddling Views on DU: 389

 
The Bill HR 5628 Ban Corporal Punishment in Schools Act is good as dead as of yesterday.

I will not stop until this is over.

NO MORE SCHOOL CHILD ABUSE!

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[Devil_Fish]

1. My baby is 1 year old. Fortunantly, I live in CA where teachers are not allowed to assalt our kids.

If, however I ever end up in a state where this type of thing occures, I will make it clear to the teacher that if they so much as invade her personal space, I will personally return the offence X3.

[Ishoutandscream2]

2. Sad that this is happening in some school districts in Texas

I work in a suburban district outside of Dallas, and corporal punishment is prohibited. Quite a few districts don't allow it. Unfortunately, when you get to the more rural areas, you find the use of the board is very acceptable. A lot of old fashioned beliefs in "spare the rod and spoil the child."

I was actually a good kid when I went to school in the 1970s. But I was always in fear - I feared most of my teachers rather than respected them. Many of them kept paddles on their desks. When a student got "out of line" the teacher would grab the paddle, take the kid out in the hall, get another teacher as a "witness", and then bust the kid's rear end. You could hear it in all the classrooms down the hall.

Licks for having your shirt tail out. Licks if you missed throwing a piece of paper in the trash. Licks if you left your book in the locker. Licks, licks, licks.

Luckily, again, I work in a district that doesn't do this. And my kids, thank God, attend schools that don't do this, either. But I know there are still some out there, but the number has decreased, even in Texas. However, it needs to be outlawed in all districts. And those districts that tend to use the board the most are those in more rural areas.

[stopschoolpaddling]

3. In our school district the figures are disturbing, for instance, on the ADE website it's recorded

that last year with just 925 students, they reported using corporal punishment 583 times. I have no reason to believe that this figure is even close to being accurate since last year I requested the corporal punishment records from our superintendent and according to his records with roughly the same amount of students it was used 611 times and on ADE it only shows 250.

Unfortunately, former paddling school districts are not much better off when it comes to replacing the paddle and punitive punishment is used more often than not to solve behavior conflicts. My children attended Richardson School District right outside of Dallas and in that school they color code the children and their behavior. (Green=you're perfect, Orange=not perfect, Yellow= more unperfect, and Red=you are bad and going to the office) Whenever there is a misbehavior the children have to go in front of the whole class and publicly move their names to the lower color. This teaches children to solve conflicts with others by taking someone down a notch and stealing a bit of their dignity. (Bullying) Other forms of corporal punishment were normal such as forced exercise. When I tried to explain that having a child assosiate misbehavior with exercise could have serious consequences for them later in life, I was dismissed.

It is astonishing to me that most school staff can not make the connection that they are modeling bullying behavior and then surprised when the students act that way. Right after being shown a paddle and threatened being hit with it by her teacher, a kindergartener went out on the playground and hit her classmate for not complying with her requests. The punishment for this little 5 year old? The principal hit her with a wooden board.

Without ending the physical abuse in the form of corporal punishment, we can not move on to the next level. Richardson School District in Dallas, Texas thinks it is doing a great job with the children in their care and they will continue to believe that as long as some schools are still beating children.

[stopschoolpaddling]

4. As you can see by this video there have been many attempts to bring this issue

into the public eye where it belongs. If it takes mentioning Obama so be it.

I am for ending corporal punishment in schools and then moving on to the next level.

If Obama want to address school bullying, then he should address the people who are

modeling the behavior for the children in the first place.

Otherwise, you are just making an already bad situation worse.

No more "cover-ups."