Posted on 11/30/2016 3:54:28 PM PST by BBell
The federal government has cast a spotlight on corporal punishment in schools this year. Updated statistics came out this summer, and Education Secretary John B. King Jr. chose as one of his final moves to urge Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, Education Superintendent John White and the leaders of 21 other states to ban paddling Nov. 22.
Though all districts in metro New Orleans have abolished the practice, it's still strikingly common statewide: More than 1 in 5 Louisiana schools paddled students in the 2013-14 school year, according to federal data.
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Nationally, corporal punishment is dealt out disproportionately to students of color and children with disabilities, and King cited studies that found physical punishment by parents actually made children more aggressive. The American Academy of Pediatrics has been urging a ban for more than three decades.
The Louisiana Education Department does not promote the practice. Its website encourages schools to use a well-known non-physical discipline system, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, which emphasizes rewards for students who follow the rules.
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And what they call a disability these days is usually a student who does not know how to act right or refuses too, and I don't mean because of mental issues.
I am not in favor of paddling, but I am even less in favor of the Feds sticking it’s nose where it doesn’t belong.
Was really helpful to me.
Helped me get my mind straight.
Did you or do you use the same with your children if you have any?
And the federal government has authority over this, how?
How are going to get their canoe loads of guns across the lake?
Same here from my parents if I misbehaved. I was a pretty well behaved kid. Understood respect for elders pretty well.
Fed has absolutely no business in this issue at all.
I got paddled in school, and when I did, I got it all over again when I got home...but even worse. Straightened me out and made me respect discipline, law and order. BTW, my kids got the same treatment. So far, none of em are blocking roads, robbing banks, shooting cops or playing knock-out games with the elderly...just sayin’.
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Paddling is a purely symbolic punishment.
It does no physical damage, but evokes attitudinal adjustment.
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LOCAL ISSUE...
Well when I was in one of my many schools I went to they had paddling. The biggest effect it had on the kid who was paddled was the embarrassment.
We got swats in junior hight back in the mid 70s i got a few and one extra the PE teacher gave me one “ I could not stand that guy” after the swat I told him my moms swats hurt worse the next one was harder I told him now thats respectable ...good job
Interstate commerce clause, it covers everything :-)
Ya, cuz eliminating discipline in schools has worked so well for the last 40 years.
That and the anticipation it was always a few days after the event so you got time to stew about it
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True!
And that is the chief value of paddling.
definitely NOT a federal government “delegated power”
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