Posted on 11/21/2016 9:20:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
Education Secretary John B. King Jr. is urging governors and school leaders in states that allow student paddling to end a practice he said would be considered “criminal assault or battery” against an adult.
King released a letter Tuesday asking leaders to replace corporal punishment with less punitive, more supportive disciplinary practices that he said work better against bad behavior.
More than 110,000 students, including disproportionate numbers of black and disabled students, were subjected to paddling or a similar punishment in the 2013-14 school year, said King, citing the Education Department’s Civil Rights Data Collection.
Corporal punishment is legal in 22 states. …
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We need mandatory corporal punishment for politicians and bureaucrats.
Spare the rod, spoil the brat
What happened to the last education secretary from Illinois who was nothing but a shill for common core and socialist school reform? I must have missed the transition.
That's because they disproportionately misbehave.
MORE PADDLING!!
Thought this went out the window decades ago as child abuse.
Not of the kind they might enjoy, though.
As of April, it says 19 states allow it: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.
If you’ll note, all but Colorado voted for Trump. Quite telling.
In 28 states, apparently so. Not this other 22.
Whip ‘em first and then hang ‘em from a tree.
That was my immediate thought!
Paddling the school canoe, you better believe that’s a paddling.
He’ll make an exception for this
Hmm I don’t think it is a good idea to let commie teachers in charge of paddling...
They should be expelled, sent home, disciplined by their parents and allowed to return when they behave. When the parents realize their obnoxious children will not be allowed in school, they will solve the problem themselves.
Putting the problem in government's hands is not the solution. Teachers should be teachers, not disciplinarians.
Which is no surprise at all when you consider that they have rarely if ever been made to follow the directives of their elders and betters since they were toddlers and were thus small enough to easily hauled around.
Their social worker won’t make them behave, their ‘mother’ (usually better called an irresponsible girl or an unpaid prostitute) won’t or can’t for fear of the social worker, the cops can’t make them behave until they break too many laws to be ignored...so then who does that leave to make them do what they don’t want to do and need to do? And then is it any wonder they ‘disproportionally’ need their little monkey-butts paddled?
>> all but Colorado voted for Trump ...
Well, let’s just say that all but the Peoples Republic of Boulder and Denver voted for Trump.
Black children need fathers in the home. Increase it to the level of Whites and Asians and magically watch as the rate of criminality, misbehavior and illegitimacy declines. Such a simple and obvious solution the left doesn’t want solved.
Quite so.
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