A Georgia school board has reinstated corporal punishment. Misbehaving students in Twiggs County can now be spanked to curb misbehavior–with parental permission and witnesses in the room.
Amazingly, 22 states have not explicitly banned corporal punishment. “Sometimes these little ones are hard headed and you have to show them you mean business. “I haven’t used it often, but I have used it,” says one principal.
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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.