Yes, when “I” went to catholic school, I got the yardstick across the butt by a nun and an iron ruler on the palms of my hands by a teacher. “I” never did anything to deserve it………..”everyone” got this when they would not snitch on a kid that did something wrong. So in cases like this, paddling is cruel and unfair punishment for sure.

I agree!!

That woman Carol Ely is the one who needs a good slap and she should be fired–you know these people get away with hurting children and you know what happens –the kids will retaliate and start attacking the teachers–remember when kids were bringing weapons to school and using them on teachers–can not believe society allowing this –back to the dark ages–if someone touched my kid, I would knock them into tomorrow!!!

Don’t get me wrong many kids need a paddle once in a while, but isn’t it against the law to even slap your child never mind paddle them? Maybe if the parents disciplined there kids instead of letting them do what ever they want. These children need to be taught to respect there elders. They expect respect from us that they haven’t even earned. I listen to these kids on the train every day to work and they haven’t got a clue what excuse me, thank you or even giving a seat up for a handicapped, elderly person or a preagnant person. Respect starts at home…

Weez is just preaching to the choir. Liberals will never agree.

I told my 10 year old daughter that if schools made paddling legal I would have no problem with them paddling her if she was being bad. She was shocked and went and told her teacher what I had said. Her teacher told her she and it so shocked her she got her act together and stopped misbehaving. I asked her one day if it was legal to paddle kids at school how many kids would be bad and she said in her youthful wisdom…..only one.

Better idea: When children misbehave in school, their parents should be paddled.

Are your children better behaved today than they were when they were spanked by teachers. The main decline in American schools that makes the united states dropping in its quality of education is indiscipline in schools. Cases of blatant abuse can be investigated but the only weapon to push a rude or indiscipline child to submission in the class room is the rod. Spare the rod spoil the child. Teachers are human and if we do our work they will not face problem with our kids. I spend some days at two different day care center and you can believe what i saw. Try visiting the day care centers and have an experience. Then see what the people there go through let alone in schools where the children are not ten.

Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it from him. 23:13 Withhold not correction from the child.

This goes right along with the shools in NY giving out morning after pills. Kids do not learn that there are consequences for their actions, especially in school. All discipline has been removed so that teachers have no control over their classrooms.

Anyone who wants to properly discipline their kids needs to read Dr. James Dobson’s Dare to Discipline. He advocates spanking when the need arises, and promotes teaching kids that there are consequences, yet punishment should be out of love for your child and to correct their wrongdoings and not out of anger.

I always remember my High School home room teacher in the late 50s, one of the Coaches. We worked up a deal, where when my detentions got too many, I could get paddeled to eliminate them.
Did that a few times, it hurt, but better than staying after school for several days. I’m sure it never affected my brain, and I remain a law abiding citizen.

I was a teacher in the public school system for more than 10 years, three states. Most public school are out of control. Rebellious students are those in real power. Sending a child to most public schools is child abuse. Maybe a spanking will bring the rebellious back to order. However, I cannot see most parents agreeing.

Spare the rod and turn your kid into a hip hop gang banger

I was paddled / spanked twice as a child and both times I deserved it. One time was by my 6th grade teacher by which I was sitting on a bench at recess time reading and watching kids play softball. A boy named Bobby Milton (isn’t it amazing how you can remember the names of certain people your entire life) come up behind me and pulled me backwards off the bench. I got up and squared off with him, I punched him in the jaw, he spun around and planted his face against a teeter-totter that was in such a position that was face level, causing him to have a bloody nose and a busted lip. He got what he asked for, However the monitor sent me to my teacher. Though this boy started the deal, I broke the rules of “no fighting” therefore warrants consequences. My 6th grade teacher talked to me, I told him the story and he said, “you know I have to give you a wack”. I didn’t contest the punishment and said “yes I know”. Out of all my educators from k – 12, I respected that man the most for his educational abilities and fairness and kindness.

2nd time was from my father, by which he laid out the boundary rules that I was not to cross a certain highway and go into a certain area, however I followed my older brother and his friends as they were permitted to do it and my friend and I wanted to go. ends up we stopped in some guys woods so the older kids could hide and smoke. The owner of the property seen us on his property and gave chase, capturing me and my friend. The older boys got away. He called the police and police got our address and by the time I rode my bike home, the police were at my house talking to my dad. My dad sat me down for a talk, reminding me that I broke the rules of crossing the certain road and will have to get a spanking for it. I broke the rules and their are penalties for breaking the rules, I knew that from as far back as I can remember.

Bottom line, Breaking rules, policies or laws warrants penalties, otherwise why have rules policies and laws if there is no one going to enforce them? Problem these days is that youth have no discipline and fear nothing knowing that they will receive little to no punishment for anything they do, therefore giving them the mentality that anything goes because there is no consequences aside from maybe not being able to go to the mall this weekend.

When parents and teachers were able to discipline children, children were much more compliant to the rules and policies and respectful. Problem is, there is a outrageous amount of naive parents who think their children are angels and never do any wrong and they have adopted the Obama theories of whenever possible, blame someone else for their actions and have passed that mentality onto their kids and the effects can be seen every where today in the absolute disrespectful conduct of the youth these days. Violent behavior, foul mouth, sloppy and crude dressing along with the tats and body piercings that tasteless parents let their kids to to mutilate their bodies.

These same parents want to blame video games and television for their childrens bad behavior. As a child, I too watched shows with mobsters and westerns with guns blazing up a city. I was always able to distinguish the difference between real life and hollywood, right and wrong. Kids these days know that their are no consequences for their behavior and if they do something criminal it will be a slap on the wrist and their record wiped clean when they turn 18.

Watch some videos on youtube to see how kids all over this nation conduct them self. listen to some videos from within classrooms and the foul language teachers allow to be spoken with out correction, so on and so forth.

Problem is not ability or need of disciplining children, the problem is certain parents and teachers do not know how to control their self when administering the spanking and go overboard due to their inability to control their emotions and anger and end up beating the living $ hit out of a child. That is why corporal punishment had to be removed from society because of these abusive natured people who can’t control them self.

I would be very careful because some 11 12 13 year olds and older carry guns to school over 400 guns were taking from students in one school district in one year.

Here is my biggest issue with this:
Will they punish kids for “disrespect” as the teacher sees it? If you have teachers who are teaching kids false information and a child speaks out, will they be punished for it?
I think of the boy in Iowa (I think) who got suspended for “talking back” to his liberal teacher, the boy in Oregon who refused to take of his rosary in school…will they be punished?

I paddled my 15yr old Daughter for making 6 F’s on her mid yr. Report Card, She called the Child protective services on Me, These 2 females about 21yrs old Case workers came to my home.starting BS, neither were Parents with Kids. I told them To Take My Daughter . They left without Her. she’s 29 now.

I believe that if a child is being unruly then yes appropriate measures need to be taken, when I grew up if you were sent to the principals office for bad behavior you got a spanking and when you got home you received another .. believe me that did not happen often!! Children need to be taught that if youmis behave there are consequences!!
This is why children act up in stores and back talk their parents in todays society and why juvenile courts are overcrowded!!

When I was in 2nd grade, there was a Mexican boy in my class that didn’t like me. I had never done or said anything to him for him not to like, he just didn’t like me. We had reading groups in the back of the class room. When I got up to take my chair back to my desk, he hauled off and slugged me as hard as he could in the stomach. It totally knocked the wind out of me and I almost passed out. My teacher sent us to another teacher’s room to get his paddle. She took this little boy into another room and paddled his bottom. He never did anything like that again. I was grateful that my teacher addressed this immediately, as this was very serious. I do believe that there are children that would benefit from a good old fashioned spanking. That does not mean to abuse a child, and I definitely don’t believe that any child should be struck on the hand with a ruler. I am talking about a spanking right across the butt. My parents spanked my brothers, my sister, and me when we did something wrong. I truly believe that a lot of the youth should have been spanked more in the earlier years of their lives, and maybe they would have more respect for their parents, teachers, and other people who are in authority. We were not abused by our parents as children. Spanking was not the only form of discipline used. We were grounded as well from time to time and experienced loss of privileges. I would rather spank my grandchildren for running out into the street to save them from being killed as to try to talk to them and watch them get killed by a car! There is a fine line.

That’s right you can’t punish your’e own kids so why should a teacher or administrator be allowed to do it. Then you have a bunch of perverts running around in schools today. How long do you think it will be before we hear about a rape or abuse case!!!! I think they should worry more about educating our children first!!

No, I do not think that a teacher should ever be allowed to use corporal punishment, BUT, I do think that no teacher or school should ever have to put up with a BRAT kid. That kid should be suspended from school unless and until the parents and teachers can meet and tell the parents that certain behavior is expected in the classroom and IF the kid does not respect said rules then that kid will absolutely be DISALLOWED from attending that school. Yep, that is exactly what I said. We CANNOT allow those kids who have NO respect for either the teachers or the classroom to even be in that classroom. We cannot EVER allow brats and violent kids (who SHOULD be disciplined by their parents but most are not) to attend our schools where they only intend to foist their violence upon others. That violence, by the way, includes the abject slander that comes out of some of our kids mouths.

When I was in the 1st grade, back in 1955, I attended a Catholic school. One day, Sister Eugenia, my teacher took my hand and smacked it with a ruler, To this this day, I have no idea what I had done to deserve such a punishment. That night, I went home and told my parents what had happened. The next day, my mother went to school with me and read the riot act to that nun and told her that she had better not ever lay a hand on me again. If I misbehaved, she or my father were to be told and they would punish me. She did this right in front of my classmates and it was funny watching this nun, who stood at least a head taller than my tine 5 foot 2 inch Italian mother, cowering from her. It’s the only time I was physically punished in school. I do not believe schools should have the right to physically punish students, particularly since parents can go to jail for spanking their own kids. So, why should schools be allowed to do it?