Students Spanked at Prom
I didn't do anything wrong
One of the Oxford High School students, Erica DeRamus, chose suspension because she did not want to be hit. Plus, she felt her dress was appropriate. Her mother also believes the dress was fitting.
Not my child
"Erica's mother said she was never notified of the prom dress code." That's what happens when children withhold information from their parents, or perhaps the mother didn't take the time to read the
policy.
Educators often witness this scenario all the time. There are always those parents who visit the schools in an attempt to justify their children's distasteful behavior.
Most chose to be spanked
There were 352 students at the prom, and a total of 18 did not follow the dress code. Seventeen students accepted their spanking, but not DeRamus. She chose to be suspended for three days. DeRamus argued that "We're too old to be paddled."
The rules don't apply to me
Erica DeRamus went on to say that "We are seniors. If you're going to act up, give us another option besides getting paddled, because this is not the 1940s. We don't take corporal punishment now."
The principal, Trey Holloday, said the school is not "tolerant of bad behavior or defiance."
Fantasy land
Too many children feel they can go to school and do whatever they want. Perhaps schools should let those students live in their realm of fantasy. Eventually those children will SNAP back to reality when they are arrested for trying to do their own thing.
Enough is enough
Maybe DeRamus's dress wasn't that indecent, but she needs to follow the rules. Why is it that the majority of students strive to break every rule?
Rebelling against injustice is one thing, but there comes a time when everyone must adhere to the rules and regulations.
Right and wrong still exist even though some would like to erase that reality. Too many people want to call everything right. Trey Holloday should be applauded for standing up for what is acceptable and resisting what is wrong. The rule is the rule, for they are there for students to collaborate in harmony.
Published by Stacy-Ann Facey
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4 Comments
Post a CommentYou are such an idiot. Who cares about the dress. The issue is, why is a middle aged man allowed to spank 17 year-old girls for wearing "sexy" outfits? This is institutionalized abuse, and Trey Holloday is a disgusting pervert.
First: 18 out of 352 is not a majority. Please give the young people of America more credit than you do. And, for that fact, give they're parents more credit, too. We are not raising a lawless generation.
Second: Since the offending garments were allowed to be worn into the event, the dress code seems to exist only to exist. If it was important that it be followed, then the persons wearing the offending garments should not have been be given admittance to the event. That would have been the appropriate consequence. The principal opted for "punishment" at a later date.
Third: The corporal punishment offered for wearing "unacceptable" clothing is overreaching and inappropriate. It's the exercise of authority for the sake of exercising authority. The 17 students who accepted it are either idiots for choosing it, and/or have idiots for parents for allowing this.
"The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures." -- J
You can't possibly believe that it is acceptable to paddle high school students? I hadn't heard this story, but would certainly pull my child from the school. Absolutely ridiculous!
We are unable to protect our 3 children, who we do not hit, from witnessing/overhearing classmates being threatened/Hit with Wooden Paddles by school employees just outside class for minor infractions to deliberately inflict physical pain and suffering intended to Punish them. Tennessee State Law does Not require Parental Consent or Notification for Children to be physically/corporally punished in Schools, ILLEGAL in Schools in 30 States! The U.S. Department of Education and the Tennessee State Department of Education have told us that our children's heatlh and safety in schools is left up to the local, autonomous School Board.
We made a written/verbal presentation to our School Board Members in April 2008, during "National Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month" to demand they Prohibit Physical/Corporal Punishment of Children in our Schools and to date 3/2010, we have received no response, no letter, no phone call, they have IGNORED US! School Corporal Punishment puts school di