Corporal punishment in schools? (and a little follow up)

I thought paddling was illegal! I haven't encountered it in schools since I was about 8 (a million years ago). None of my kids has ever been paddled and if they were they would be out of that school in an instance!! Police would more then likely be called.

As far as I'm aware it's not even an option. I have never seen it mentioned in the handbook, or heard of it mentioned in any meetings. I've never been presented with a conscentual form that does or doesn't give someone permission to hit my kid.

 

I don't recall that ever being an option when I was in school either, although I had an English teacher that would chuck a pencil eraser at you if you weren't paying attention lol (I heard that a few years ago some kid went home and said she "hit him" when the teacher did this and she was then suspended and let go )

I would be curious, does every single teacher follow this discipline path or do some not send kids to the office at all for a paddling?  As a teacher, I would have been mortified to send one of my students to be paddled, so I would have figured out another way to handle it myself and not have it included as a discipline option in my class (even if I had to do it on the sly and not be able to officially state it).  I wonder if there's a way to find out which teachers do it, or even threaten kids with it (even that would bother me), and which don't.

 

If that was my ds (such a great, loving kid, but soooo wiggly), and a teacher/principal pulled that crap, we would be out of the school. We would go to the poor house paying for private school or homeschool if it was regularly used and accepted in our public schools. I don't hit my kids or threaten them with violence and sure as he!! won't let someone else.

 

There's got to be an opt out form, it wouldn't make sense legally to not provide one. But I would still be bothered by it.

I wonder if there is no opt out from a strictly logistical standpoint. Can you imagine if you opted out and they paddled your dd? Either from misplacing a form, not looking it up first, etc. They could end up in a lawyer riddled hell extremely fast.

I'm still trying to figure out why you decided to move to Mississippi when your other option was Washington. I read in that other thread all the things you considered as a family to make this move, but I keep reading about how Mississippi has some of the worst schools in the country and it is such an extreme bible belt state...I can't see how anyone would choose to move there unless they were moving back to be with family.

Wow, I can't believe it s still legal in so many states. I know if I laid a hand on a child (as a school. Employee) I would be fired in an instance!!! I know when I taught in a daycare we fired a lady once when she swatted her own child while working. It is not tolerated at all in Minnesota!

My boys would not be going to any school that allowed that. Thankfully, that's considered child abuse around here.