Spanked at School

CNN reported that more than 200,000 kids were paddled at school this past school year in U.S. schools. Corporal punishment is legal in 21 U.S. States. A wooden paddle is most often used when corporal punishment is dealt out.

While some find this practice to be barbaric and old school, some parents have no problem at all knowing their children may be hit with a paddle in school by a total stranger. In most cases parents are allowed to sign a waiver if they do not want their child to be paddled.

If more parents were involved in their child's life, had better communication with their child's school and teachers, this may not even be an issue. Some parents are more likely to leave punishment up to the schools. When teachers can't control their students and know they have the right to paddle students who disrupt the classroom, they are less likely to talk about the problems and more likely to resort to physical abuse in the form of a paddle. When this happens, it shows the students the teacher has lost control, of both himself/herself and the class.

Afterwards the teacher may have more control, but only because the teacher is using the threat of physical harm to each student and not because they have control of the class. If this technique were actually working, the schools using it would'nt have to do so over and over, the kids would stop doing whatever it was they were doing to get paddled in the first place and corporal punishment would at last see it's end.

The fact that paddling is used more than once in the same school and the fact that kids are still getting into trouble and the threat of a paddle does not deter students from being disruptive or doing an offense that is deemed fit for punishment should be enough to stop this practice from happening at all.

If parents knew the mental and physical anguish that was being brought about by getting paddled, they as the smart people they are would take their kids out of the schools that allowed it or get together to put a stop to it altogether.

Corporal punishment is a primitive and barbaric way of dealing with punishment in schools, if parents hit their kids and left marks the way these teachers and principals do they would have their kids taken away from them. It's just not right. People need to speak out and put a stop to this.

For what reason would you think it's alright to cause pain, humiliate and degrade a young child for not getting a math problem right, or for talking without raising their hand. Spanking may have its place, but its place isn't in school.