Leather tawse and a rattan cane. By Deanna Paul Deanna Paul Reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow February 28 at 5:12 PM As a 10th-grader in Jefferson County, Ky., Tina was caught cutting the lunch line. She would be disciplined, a school official told her, but he gave her a choice: detention or two “licks,” a sugarcoated term for two strikes with a wooden paddle.
“When someone is doing something wrong, the most important thing is to change their behavior. There are more effective measures to change students’ behavior than striking them,” Riley, a former high school principal, told The Washington Post.There’s been a national downward trend in corporal punishment in schools, according to research by Kids Count Data Center. In 2016, the Obama administration called for an end to the practice in all states and school districts.
Of those 17 districts, five accounted for 85 percent of cases. Bell County reported 129 incidents, the highest in Kentucky for the academic year. Clinton County, the second highest, reported 128 incidents, a figure more than seven times the 17 incidents reported during 2016-17. Neither county schools superintendent responded to The Post for comment.
I'm regularly confronted to people from USA telling me that paddling it's abandoned since decades. Even people from states where it still common like Mississippi or Texas it seems there is a don't ask, don't tell policy. Immunity laws are making impossible lawsuits from parents.
What’s wrong with paddling students? Kayaking is good exercise and a great way to experience nature.
It kept me in line a couple of times, and it was warranted. Usually got it again when I got home. But that was 1970s. And back then you respected authority unlike today.
Talked with someone who had a high school daughter spanked by her male principle in Alabama. IN 2018!!!! I couldn’t believe it. They give the student a choice between detention or spanking and the student had to work.
NOBODY BETTER HIT MY KID!!!!
Or we can ban government schools and allow parents CHOICE
My school had a split baseball bat with holes in it. We survived.
EvelDick
EvelDick Good maybe we can whoop the school shooter out of some of these students
I wish a mothrfrcka would.
Anyone laying a hand on my kid is going to regret it.
I have deleted my previous post. It should have read: discipline should never mean physical punishment.
Liberals need a paddle
Give them all a trophy instead.
The state should not have this power.
My mother never let another person lay their hands on me. She always said she KNEW she didn’t hit me in anger, she won’t trust someone else not to do so. You wouldn’t allow that same person to drive your car but this person can hit your child?!
I got paddled quite a bit. Only problem I have with it now is, it's not done near enough or hard enough.
It's child abuse, and assault and battery.
Beat their ass. “They bad” ♠️
I was surprised when I thought it read 'in third world countries...'
'Spare the rod, spoil the child'. I and my 3 brothers were spanked as children and we all turn out great. Not a beating ok, a spanking. There is a difference. spanking
You said paddling I’m triggered
Some kids really need a good woopin'
Good. Bring back a little discipline via corporal punishment.
Can we not ban this in whole country.
'Paddling'? Seriously? They aren't floating down a river. Be more accurate, please! You have the room. It's 'hitting children with a paddle.'
My Maryland elementary school had a paddle hanging on the wall in the principal's office. This was in the early- to mid-70s.
Perverted.
Sorry but I think that is a disgusting practice, especially in education. Personally I don’t believe in that by parents either. It just has not been ok or needed in my world. Better ways exist to discipline and educate children.
What I find interesting is the same people who are against corporal punishment probably have no issue with killing infants (late-term abortions). We've turned into a very sick and twisted nation of lunatic liberals.
Usar palavras de sabedoria para ensinar e doutrinar crianças e adolescentes funciona com mais eficácia do que métodos primitivos.
Jim_B60 Kentucky again. Please at least get with the 20th Century! (It’s already the 21st)
Maybe that’s why NRSC Mitch McConnell acts like he does! He’s the result of too much paddling!
I grew up in south florida and was never paddled . I had heard of kids actually getting their fannies warmed but I feel like it was more of a deterrent than anything else .
Mannnn....I was paddled by a nun, Sister Barbara Ann, in Catholic school in the late 60's...Made me pull my pants down too. She was mean!
All being paddled as a kid did for me was get me pissed off at the person that did it and make me motivated to figure out ways to push their limits.
Gotta say that when I was growing up I deserved every school paddling I got!
Remember those days. Believe me I never made that mistake again. Chewing gum! It was disrespectful! Remember that to this day. Another reason I Love america! This country taught us respect back in the day.
Paddling does not encourage learning. In fact it encourages violence. It should be banned.
First school official to lay a hand on one of my kids better hang on to that stick - they’re going to need it!
Im not for this parents are the only ones that has a right to. Was told when I was in junior high the vice principal said he had the right, I said yes he did but I had right to hit him with a chair if he did so go ahead.
I’m gonna go ahead and guess where those states are. The backward ass part we should have let secede?
It should be banned. I’m 41; I was paddled when I was in the third grade because I committed some now forgotten minor infraction. All I remember is that wooden paddle hurt like the dickens.
That is SOOOO medieval!
It’s called physical abuse
I got paddled with a board with many holes in it to improve its aerodynamic performance.
Can they still paddle their Senators? Preferably, upside the head.
I got paddled in Alabama in 1982. I’m stillmad about it.
I have all those implements in my toy bag. However, they're for consenting adults. Unlike people in Kentucky, I don't believe in beating up kids.
Corporal punishment needs a come-back.
Wow if they'd done it sooner we could have been spared senatemajldr McConnell. Speaks volumes.
Searching for the 'I was paddled in school, I turned out ok' argument....
it should be imposed Nationwide
lots of kids need a good ass whippin-i include myself in that group
Respect
If only we could also get lawmakers concerned about *shooting* students.... 😶
We need to teach these kids that violence is always the answer. The winner has the biggest stick !
Bannin' paddlin'? Well...
Karma is sweet
If we’re still debating that then no wonder we can’t tackle climate change
Which is why I have a fetish for dominant white women
Ha ha 'I'T
BRING IT BACK to ALL US STATES!!! Too much UN-discipline in most youngsters.
Take your pick delinquency will not be tolerated
So that's why those people became deplorables....
Some students do need harsher discipline than just time out, but i don’t think paddling their ass is the right answer.
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