Posted on 03/20/2018 10:38:50 AM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Three Arkansas high school students are PADDLED by staff after they participated in walkout protesting gun violence
At least three students at an Arkansas high school say they were swatted with a paddle for participating in the nationwide walkout protests to promote stricter gun laws.
The incident happened last Wednesday at Greenbrier Public Schools after the teens returned back to classes.
Jerusalem Greer, the mother of one of the students, Wylie Greer, posted what happened on her Twitter page.
'My kid and two other students walked out of their rural, very conservative, public school for 17 minutes today,' she wrote. 'They were given two punishment options. They chose corporal punishment. This generation is not playing around. #walkout'
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ARTH,
and GOOD the schools did something right for a change
Universities can give a pass on somethings, but they can’t take the sting out of corporal punishment.
You beat me to it (no pun intended :-)
Clearly, their time would have been better spent protesting paddle violence.
Or protesting government violence.
Just like when I was in high school in Oklahoma. I learned that the wrestling coach with the paddle taught a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
punished by ‘swatting’ with a paddle. Otherwise, they had the choice to get a two-day in-school suspension.
The students opted to be paddled with their parents consent. They all knew that detention wouldn’t make international news. Now they can all go on Ellen and Zuckerberg will give them scholarships.
If you want a taxpayer funded education for your child, you should agree to corporal punishment of your child by certified school authorities immune from prosecution in accordance with strict requirements. If you don’t agree— get the hell out!!
I don't care if the kids were right or wrong in walking out. Suspend them, detention..yeah sure. But does anyone really give a cheery two thumbs up to a government bureaucrat hitting their kid?
If these kids were paddled because they DID NOT go to a school-mandated assembly on Planned Parenthood, we'd be up in arms. Accordingly, to support the government hitting ANYONE'S child over light and transient causes is antithetical to individualism and the family being THE core unit of society.
Those paddles work wonders.
Our high school phys ed director looked like a pro football lineman and had what looked like a short handled canoe paddle with holes drilled in it.
In four years I only saw him apply it to a couple of students rear ends after they bent over and grabbed their ankles.
Needless to say everyone got the message that they behaved in PE.
My eighth grade P.E. teacher (Mr. Allen 1966) wielded a size 15 tennis shoe when warranted. He also chain smoked Camel non filter cigarettes during all outdoor activities. Nice guy if you behaved, scary if you didn’t.
Corporal punishment deterred me from doing the wrong thing. Admittedly, it never changed my attitude toward anything.
It is hard to get my arms around the concept of a parent being OK with a government official striking their own flesh and blood.
LOL! I agree. They’re acting like spoiled brats, and they need to be treated that way.
BTW, I’m not a gun fanatic and while I think guns should be available to all within reason, I honestly don’t see the need for the AR whatever the number. However, the problem isn’t the guns or even a particular type of gun - it’s that the kid in Florida had already been declared dangerous and recommended for involuntary hospitalization (strangely enough, by the same sheriff who stood outside the school and did nothing to stop him). Hospitalization had also been requested by his mother and another person that I don’t recall (perhaps somebody in the school?), but nothing was ever done about this. If he had been “Baker-Acted,” which in Florida means a 72 hour involuntary hospitalization for evaluation, it would have appeared on his record and he would never have gotten the gun in the first place.
So they’re not only spoiled brats, they’re ignorant and easily manipulated spoiled brats.
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