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Three Arkansas high school students are PADDLED by staff after they participated in walkout ...
DAILY MAIL UK ^ | Mar 20, 2018 | Jessa Schroeder For Dailymail.com

Posted on 03/20/2018 10:38:50 AM PDT by Morgana

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1 posted on 03/20/2018 10:38:51 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: metmom

ARTH,

and GOOD the schools did something right for a change


2 posted on 03/20/2018 10:39:20 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

3 posted on 03/20/2018 10:40:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Morgana

Universities can give a pass on somethings, but they can’t take the sting out of corporal punishment.


4 posted on 03/20/2018 10:40:55 AM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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To: dfwgator

You beat me to it (no pun intended :-)


5 posted on 03/20/2018 10:41:20 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" as conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: Morgana

Clearly, their time would have been better spent protesting paddle violence.


6 posted on 03/20/2018 10:41:42 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead

Or protesting government violence.


7 posted on 03/20/2018 10:42:30 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: Morgana

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.


8 posted on 03/20/2018 10:45:31 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: Morgana
In junior high (it was called then), we got swats on our hands. Ouch!
9 posted on 03/20/2018 10:46:29 AM PDT by donna (Chelsea Manning is Obama's legacy.)
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To: Morgana

punished by ‘swatting’ with a paddle. Otherwise, they had the choice to get a two-day in-school suspension.


Interesting choice they took. From the article if they had taken the suspension I think their peers would have ridiculed them more. It is all about peer pressure.


10 posted on 03/20/2018 10:47:02 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: thoughtomator

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.


11 posted on 03/20/2018 10:47:48 AM PDT by dead
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To: Morgana

Good on them !



Paddling is not abuse.



Parents have rights and some pretty cool parents live in Arkansas.


12 posted on 03/20/2018 10:48:45 AM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Morgana

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!!


13 posted on 03/20/2018 10:53:07 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: Morgana
I think this is good because maybe it'll make parents realize they've surrendered their rights by sending their children to school - in loco parentis- and that the Communist Manifesto is alive and well in America.

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.

14 posted on 03/20/2018 10:55:02 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Morgana

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.


15 posted on 03/20/2018 10:57:24 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Morgana

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.


16 posted on 03/20/2018 10:59:26 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Morgana

Corporal punishment deterred me from doing the wrong thing. Admittedly, it never changed my attitude toward anything.


17 posted on 03/20/2018 11:00:16 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: setha
Universities have their own version of paddles:

18 posted on 03/20/2018 11:04:50 AM PDT by miniTAX (au)
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To: so_real
I don't know what's more stunning...that the parents chose to outsource their responsibilities to the government. Or the parents traded their child's private property rights for 15 mins of fame.

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.

19 posted on 03/20/2018 11:09:52 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Morgana

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.


20 posted on 03/20/2018 11:14:38 AM PDT by livius
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