http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/07/21/spare-the-rod/ Closing the Achievement Gap: Teaching Content Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:17:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/2008/07/21/spare-the-rod/#comment-4326 M. McNeece Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:31:14 +0000 http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/?p=640#comment-4326 No teacher or administrator in the real world wants to ban corporal punishment. Sure, it can be misused, but I suspect that it rarely is. Paddling is just one of a range of penalties for misbehavior. Sometimes it works and the misbehavior stops. Time-out sometime works, but not always. Behavior contracts sometime work. No one penalty ALWAYS works. That is why we need choices in our pocket when we attempt to modify negative behavior. Those who want to ban paddling just don't live in the real world. No teacher or administrator in the real world wants to ban corporal punishment.
Sure, it can be misused, but I suspect that it rarely is.
Paddling is just one of a range of penalties for misbehavior. Sometimes it works and the misbehavior stops. Time-out sometime works, but not always. Behavior contracts sometime work. No one penalty ALWAYS works. That is why we need choices in our pocket when we attempt to modify negative behavior.
Those who want to ban paddling just don’t live in the real world.

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