@SeaGreenEyez I have never come across it and I have two children who went to school her, both in the private school system and governmental one. Neither have I ever heard of anyone being punished in that way anywhere here. But one never knows.

@SeaGreenEyez I think that the article is now out of date perhaps.

@SeaGreenEyez You could be right.

Yea me included. I went to Parochial School. Them nuns were vicious. The paddle, the pointer on the rear……

LOL……nothing surprising!! Let’s be careful what we say here…….next thing they will want to reinstate workplace corporal punishment. Uh oh. Lol.

Maybe that’s the reason Blue Democrat controlled cities have more crime than anywhere else, law discipline.

And here in the US!! I was taught as a kid that that happened in then Communist countries, authotarian ones.

Sadly it wasn’t true.

That must have been terrifying for you.... to feel you had no safe haven... no one to defend you. When I was a child, it was unthinkable for a teacher to hit a student.

@TheoryNumber3 We all have our challenges mine are from a time when a girl could be suspended for wearing pants, so a more primal struggle perhaps but all the hate comes from all the same places and all the same people.

@Willow_Wisp I can't argue with that.

Hopefully the serial sadists got theirs somehow. All of them.

@SeaGreenEyez .....the 800 pound gorrilla question that none of our " au courant cognoscenti " ever ad to this equasion is what persent of the paddle worthy infractions does that 13% generate. without an honest and forthright confrontation of this issue, statements like this will remain hot house posturing. and making a federal case out of school paddling is itself the most ridiculous of posturing.

That fucking bitch needs her ass kicked, then fired! This shit of abusing kids in schools needs to be stopped NOW!

@SeaGreenEyez . ............ that is exactly " what on earth im trying to claim". the claim is backed up by crime statistics, and the testimony of all from my generation with eyes to see, who went to or have knowlege of their integrated urban or suburban schools. im speaking of the mostly intra black violenmce that was documented by harvard sociologist tanneberg and elkins in their landmark monogram SLAVERY, ...... now supressed. or again in the landmark congressional MOYNAHAN REPERT of the 1960s, .....now also supressed. socviologist routinely noted the uncheck violence of a minority of black thugs agasinst predominently their own race. today this has no place in the fake dialog. the question of corporal punishment is separate from who if anyone should suffer it, but to equate the mild symbolic nonsense of paddle sting with the very real and viscious violence that the worst of these kids dish out routinely to those they subjugate...well, its panglosian nonsense. maybe we need body cameras in schools, like the cops now have, to sort out whats true in the alice in wonderland world of today's npr fed wise women. not that that, or anything else, would disuade them.

@holdenc98 Your word salad on both of your posts makes commenting impossible.

@Leelu That's cawse he went to one of those gud skools

@holdenc98 It's interesting that the reports you cited were both suppressed. I wonder why that was.......???????

@holdenc98 By the way, Holden, tweets, memes and anecdotal evidence are not FACTS

@TheoryNumber3 .......... et tu bruta? are you mocking my spelling and punctuation? thats from my old age and a learning disorder perhaps. the open mockery from your side is off pioint and it seems a bit ad hominem. definitely beneath you., less than i assumed you were.

@TheoryNumber3 .......perhaps you should focus on the actual "the reports i cited" themselves. the historic monograph SLAVERY, by tannenberg and elkin was perhaps the most famous and often cited work on american slavery (compared to the physically more onerous south american slavery) from the 1950s. the MOYNAHAN REPORT was the world famous congressional report on the collapse of american black family structure, the committee that created it was chaired by daniel moynahan, senator from new york and before that a world famous harvard sociologist. the report was of such importance that the new yorker magazine made it its feature article. 18 papes of 6 collum fine print, emensely dense with facts. this famous and landmark social research into the problems of black americans is not "tweets, memes.and anectdotal evidence" as you seem to think. these 2 works were in fact the intellectual underpinning of lyndon johnson"s " new society" program, the first federal attempt to elevate blact culture with money and social programs. .............. we hear nothing of these "reports" in todays media, despite the fact that BLM generated stories dominate. i also agree that "its interesting that the reports (you) cited were both repressed. i wonder why ???? " do you think thought control has arrived in the land of the free and the home of the brave? read my fellow commentators, right here, and then you tell me.

@TheoryNumber3, @Leelu .............. .odd how for some people anything beyond monosylabic confrormist grunts of agreement becomes "word salad"

@TheoryNumber3, @Leelu, @SeaGreenEyez ...............you are embarassing yourself

@holdenc98 I called your posts "word salad" because it makes no sense. It's unreadable.

@Leelu . .............. point of order, madame chairman. we need a ruling from the continuoum on that.

@Leelu, @SeaGreenEyez ,......... # stop pontificating from your butt

@SeaGreenEyez ..........youi don't understand the workings of agnostic.com's posting comments

What’s worse is that it implants in a young mind that violence is fine, if it’s for the right reasons. Very often the abused becomes the abuser.

@CuddyCruiser Facts!

@SeaGreenEyez Some teachers had a paddle. I got paddled a couple times when I was a kid. I remember one parent made a big stink about her son getting hit and transferred him to a different teacher. Mom hit me harder than teachers would dare to. Don't get mad, but I preferred getting paddled over having to do detention.

Yea they certainly like the “Good ole’ dayz…..

@CuddyCruiser Some kids need discipline. From their parents, not from the school.

@barjoe That’s true. I myself have never been a parent though.

@CuddyCruiser Me neither. I don't think anymore than a spanking at a very young age.

I never hit my son and he turned out to be a fine adult. It's a ridiculous practice to hit children. I remember how it made me feel when I was hit.

@TheoryNumber3 My dad never hit us. My mom didn't hit me hard. She went for distance, with just cause.

@barjoe My mom went for the belt. Not often, but occasionally.

@SeaGreenEyez I completely agree with everything you said, but we live in a world where people are basically unqualified for most of the responsibilities they have.... starting with top government

Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming

you guys are acting like trained poodles. yes, they have what we need. but don't ALWAYS cave like dixie cups before steamrollers

@holdenc98 Your comment requires an explanation. What does it mean?

@yvilletom.............. i see unmerited obiessance going on toward that babe in the red coat. the same kind of obeissance weve been serving up for at least the last half million years, and that turned their thinking brain lobes into jello through disuse. we don't demand excellence from them, and we don't get it.

There’s more crime in Democrat controlled cities than anywhere else.

@Trajan61 and correlation is not causation.

@Trajan61 Per capita? or raw numbers. More people = more crime in many cases

my friend, youre joking of course. but we can't see your smile

@holdenc98 I don't think he's smiling.