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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
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Subject: Re: corporal punishment in schools
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Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 16:31:13 EDT
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> > I've discovered an odd situation here in Pennsylvania.
> > Corporal punishment, administered by a paddle, is occasionally used
> > in our local district.  It is "legal" in a curious way: is used
> > fairly infrequently: perhaps half a dozen times a year, officially.
> > But public (and private) school students are in
> > a unique legal and moral situation, where, without appeal, they may be
> > subjected to the pain and humiliation of a semi-public (it must be
> > witnessed) beating.
> 
> In Pennsylvania, public school teachers including my wife have the
> rights of a parent in disciplining a child.  If a parent can spank
> a child, then the teacher can. 

What about parents who don't believe in corporal punishment
for their children? I have spanked our four-year-old twice
so far, only as a last resort and after many warnings, but 
I don't want anyone other than my wife and me to dole out
spankings. That is my job.

> 
> Believe me, I don't envy my wife one minute spending each day in
> classrooms with 35 eight and ninth graders.  Teachers need to keep
> discipline or the taxpayers are just wasting their money on the
> teachers and more importantly, denying other children their education.

I don't envy her either. But, who said that corporal punishment is
effective? I'm not sure it is, after my experiences with my son.

-todd jones