“Personal and parental responsibility is what’s needed, not paddles for principals.”
There is no better teaching tool for the issue of personal responsibility than a “Board Of Education” wielded by the coach.
Just who is going to cause this “personal and parental responsibility”?
The parents are even worse than the kids!
Soooo.........take away the threat of being arrested when those parents DO the paddling. Good grief...
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“They are being abused,” he said. “Teachers have been hospitalized after getting attacked by middle schoolers. It’s a war zone.”
Maybe I’m wrong here but when you have a problem with middle-schoolers attacking teachers, something more than corporal punishment is needed.
These kids need to be removed from the classroom. It doesn’t matter to me whether they’re sent to an alternative school or expelled - but something needs to be done.
If kids like this are attacking teachers, then more than likely they are causing other disruptions in class too. The classroom needs to be made a place of learning with NO disruptions.
I’m not sure the threat of corporal punishment would have much effect on some of these punks.
“Personal and parental responsibility is what’s needed, not paddles for principals.”
In principle, I’m in agreement with Thomas, at least in the matter of parents doing their job. Discipline begins (or should begin) at home. It would eliminate, or at least reduce, a number of the discipline problems.
In reality, good luck with that. I would lay odds the parents whose children are the worst discipline problems are the least likely to make any effort to correct the problem. More likely, they’ll accuse the school of picking on their precious baby unfairly.
As for corporal punishment...I went to an elementary school that allowed it, and I came out unscarred. But it sounds to me like there are bigger problems afoot in the Memphis schools than just unruly behavior. If middle school students are physically assaulting teachers, a paddle probably isn’t going to be enough to solve the problem.
What we really need is to abolish government schools. These schools keep the thugs in school because they want the state money for each warm body sitting in a seat for at least part of the day.
Public schools ruined the cities. Middle class parents who could not afford private schools, moved to the suburbs. That left only the very rich, who send their kids to private schools, and the very poor, who have no means to escape, in the cities.
Everything government touches it screws up.
Kenneth Whalum wants to whale ‘em! Might be the best solution, within limits.
In my Junior High in the early 60’s there were a couple of teachers you didn’t fool around with, and whom you didn’t want to have breaking up a fight you were in. I remember one—Mr. Hatch, who was about 6-3, 240 or 250 lbs, and more than a bit sadistic when he had an excuse. Someone like him would be borderline in a corporal punishment environment, which is what I mean by “within limits.”
That's not to say that the students aren't severely lacking in discipline and someone needs to be handing punishments down, but someone needs to clean up the Memphis City schools, first!