BPR: Misbehaving “Lone Star State” whippersnappers best watch their booties, because according to reports, at least one school district in Texas is bringing back old-fashioned corporal punishment like spanking come next August.
Late last month, the Pampa Independent School District board of trustees voted 4-3 to reinstate a deprecated student discipline policy from the 90s that had allowed teachers to handle misbehaving students with some old-fashioned corporal punishment.
The decision didn’t come lightly.
“It was a hard decision, we deliberated for about six months,” board president Richard Qualls told local station WOAI.
“The corporal punishment is a controversial topic because some people are for it, some are against it,” district superintendent Tanya Larkin added. read more
h/t Grandpa Whoopsie.
Out in the Panhandle where the original TX still resides.
Nope. Too many “educators” are Leftist ghouls who would exact punishment against conservative kids, and judging how out-of-control too many of these teachers get, I would be worried about them laying a hand on my kid.
Mete out punishment with some military-style “justice”; if a kid gets out of line, punish the entire class. Let peer pressure kick in. Or punish with detention or suspension. There are other ways of making kids behave.
Also, weed out of public school the kids who are so developmentally or emotionally disabled they don’t know right from wrong, or don’t care. Those kids will never gain a thing from “mainstreaming”, and schools are turned into asylums because of that model. This was cooked-up by Districts and Unions to get more slops from the Feds.
Let me guess, Minorities exempted?
It wouldn’t end well for someone if a teacher or school administrator put a hand on my grandkids. And the way things are going it would probably be me that it doesn’t end well for. Stinking lefties!
Sounds like a good decision to me, especially for elementary. As they get older maybe a different approach.
A few parents need the corporal punishment as well.
Schools, like our government have been overtaken by leftists. If you look at the insanity we have been witnessing from the left it’s clear why the kids act out.
Another problem, many teachers are not intelligent enough to be teaching anything.
I returned to school as an adult to take more advanced classes. I had a handful of horrible teachers, then two who were so outstanding that I continued to take their classes. One was from Taiwan the other from Italy. The difference in the way students reacted to the horrible teachers and the great teachers was obvious. We need a complete overhaul not a paddle.
I got it in NC in the ’70’s… and it was ALWAYS a “3-for-1 SPECIAL” in MY day…
ONLY happened twice – once in elementary school; once in Jr. High. School called my mom first, so when I got home, I got a SECOND paddling. Mom of course, had already called dad, so when HE got home, I got ANOTHER paddling!
3-for-1 SPECIALS, would cure a LOTTA this country’s ills… 🤔
Dang. I happily jumped to the wrong conclusion and though that it would be OK to smack the teachers around. Imagine my disappointment!
I’m all for corporal punishment, but the problem I see with it today is there are few if any intelligent adults in public schools. The adults are more like the kids they’re supposed to be educating, so I could see them getting their jollies out of beating a kid they don’t like and allowing a kid they do like skate punishment.
Back in my day and even my older kid’s day a paddling was more about the fear factor than the actual paddling, but then I also knew and she knew once you got home you were going to be in trouble again. Today far too many kids go home and parents blame someone else, even if their kid is in the wrong.
What I do know though is suspension has never been an answer, because to kids that is a vacation from school.
The true answer is to end public schools and start once again raising kids to know there are consequences for their actions and kids and adults alike need to learn life is not fair, so learn to live with it and quit always wanting to be a victim and a snowflake over every little thing.
In seventh grade a kid in class hit me in the eyeball with a rubber band. I jumped out of my desk and headed across the room with the intention of putting my knuckles into his but was headed off by the teacher. The teacher escorted both of us to the principals office. The principal asked what happened and the other fella admitted that he had shot a rubber band and hit me in the eye. The principal then gave the perpetrator a few whacks with the paddle he kept on hand for such occasions and sent him back to class. Suddenly he told me I was next at which point I informed him he was out of his mind and I wouldn’t comply. He then called my mother who had to leave work to come to the school. So my mom is angry when she arrives. The principal tells her what happened and that I was being insubordinate by refusing my punishment. My mom went off on him and went up one side and down the other for wanting to punish me for something someone else had done while pointing at me with the obviously red, swollen and teary eye and I began to smirk as I was enjoying the hell out of it. Never got paddled by the principal but did get grounded for smirking when I got home. Was never more proud of that little woman.
Its about damn time.
Those who do not listen, must be made to feel.
Beat that little red ass if appropriate.