Opinions wrote:
The Christian Science Monitor probably said it best a little over a
year ago. "When it comes to spanking, there's no such thing as a
consensus in America's schools." The paper also called it "another
symbol of the nation's red-blue divide. Most states that still allow
the practice are in the South and Midwest."

I have a lovely surprise for you at the end of your delusional wishful
meanderings, lil 'o'. Read on, do please.

"Between 1980 and 2000, the number of students struck in US public
schools declined from 1.4 million to 342,000, according to an analysis
by the Center for Effective Discipline of data from the US Department
of Education." What remains unclear is whether the numbers reflect a
linear decline or a parabola approaching a nadir.

"parabola approaching a nadir?"

It's not the least unclear you are bonkers and sit around ruminating and
fantasizing a great deal about a world of happily paddling parents and
teachers and submissive frightened subservient children.

You ignore that along with those come many that will strike back when
they are able. They are our criminals and violent madmen and madwomen.

Only New Jersey and Iowa ban paddling in private schools.

Sad, isn't it. It makes it appear, regardless of facts, that schools are
being created to intimidate and terrify children. Bad PR for all private
schools..as many do NOT allow paddling regardless of state law.

The Monitor also pointed to the Le Moyne College Masters of Education
program candidate who was expelled from the program last year for
writing a paper endorsing paddling in schools. So much for academic
freedom!

There have also been some quirks in public schools.

"Quirk" would be a very good label for what follows.


The Pike County, Ohio school system banned paddling in 1993 and
reinstated it a little over a decade later. According to an interview
with then principal of Western Elementary School in Latham, misbehavior
in the school declined as a result.

All program launching is followed shortly with the good news that 'it
works.'

Time will tell, as it has on paddling.


With the backing of the local newspaper and over the objection of the
superintendent, Georgia's Lanier County Board of Education restored
paddling to its schools about a year ago.

Then, there was the case of the 18-year-old Texas student who got
paddled in high school. The student argued that she could not be
paddled because her parents had NOT given explicit permission. She
attorney claimed assault. The school system argued that her parents
didn't need to because she was still a student AND past her 18th
birthday! While I could never find out what the outcome of her appeal,
a lack of no-spank propaganda probably means the school district
prevailed. At least that has been the judicial trend for well over a
decade.

......snip...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6613146/

As paddling in public schools decreases we find that violence in those
schools is also going down, extremely.

Odd, isn't it?

"Overall in 1992 there were more than 3.4 million crimes in school
against students between 12 and 18, the report estimated. That included
more than 2.2 million thefts — by far the most common serious crime in
school — and over 1.1 million violent crimes.

By 2002, the report found the total number had dropped to 1.7 million
crimes: just over 1 million thefts and about 659,000 violent crimes."

Must be something in the water. 0:-

You might want to review some of the "feminazi propaganda" on the
subject of bullying and paddling in schools. 0;-

http://www.stophitting.com/answers/

Then there's this charmer, with accompanying pictures that according to
LAW are the same as spanking...protected as the caregivers right to
inflict.

But thankfully the truth is also told on this page above:

" Myth: US Schools that allow CP perform better than non-paddling US
schools because they have “better discipline.”

Truth: States that have abolished CP perform better than states that
allow paddling in school. Not one of Newsweek’s 2003 best schools in the
US, for example, was a paddling school.
"






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