Memphis Educator Wants Corporal Punishment in 'War Zone' Schools

Fox News ^ | 6/24/10 | Todd Starnes

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Unruly students have turned some Memphis classrooms into war zones where teachers have been subjected to verbal and physical attacks, according to a school board commissioner who has introduced a resolution to reinstate corporal punishment.

“Teachers, for several years now, have been increasingly agitated by the lack of classroom discipline,” said School Board Commissioner Kenneth Whalum. “It’s out of hand, man.”

Memphis city schools banned corporal punishment five years ago. Since then, according to Whalum, teachers have been subjected to out-of-control kids. “They are being abused,” he said. “Teachers have been hospitalized after getting attacked by middle schoolers. It’s a war zone.”

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Whalum’s resolution has generated a heated debate along the banks of the Mississippi River. “Bringing corporal punishment back to the city schools is a good way to bring discipline to kids who desperately need it,” said Greg Nelson of Cordova. “There is nothing wrong with spanking for discipline. After all, it is Biblical and there is nothing wrong with that.”

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But the Center for Effective Discipline disagrees with that assessment. The Ohio-based organization wants to abolish corporal punishment. According to the center's research, 20 states, mostly in the South, still have some form of corporal punishment.

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Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) is expected to introduce a bill on Tuesday that would institute a federal ban on corporal punishment in all American schools.

[Soothesayer]

The problem is that the enemy realizes that the best way to stop us from forming a movement is to steal our money until we are too busy trying to keep our families from starving.

They have had 100+ years to figure out how to be effective dictators.