Corporal punishment in schools? (and a little follow up) - Page 2

In North Idaho I haven't heard of anyone being paddled since I was a kid.

It says it is legal in IN but I have never seen/heard anything about it in our public schools. In our religion based schools yes. There is one locally here that if you refuse to sign the form to allow paddling then your child is denied entrance in that school. My friends kids went there. Her children were regularly paddled. Most often for being tardy (which I'm sorry isn't always their fault since there are no busses and they can't drive but have to rely on mom and dad) or late/missed homework. They also got them for uniform issues. This friends son got swats because his socks were black instead of navy blue 3 times in one semester. I wouldn't allow my children to be swatted. I remember being sent to the office in third grade for swats. I kept correcting the teacher on my name. She kept calling me Rae and I always said my name was Rae MARIE. Principal promptly walked me back to class with my file nad informed the teacher that my name was not Rae adn that I had the right to be called by the name on my birth certificate as my parents had noted on the registration papers. Boy did htat teacher hate me after that! Good thing I only had her for reading! I routinely would get sent to the office in HS for correcting subs on my name. I never went. I just wandered the halls for the rest of class. 

Yikes!! Its says it's legal in NC!! No way I'd allow anyone to be paddling my children!!!

I didn't hit my child and I damn sure wasn't going to let anyone else.

Ah Cookie, that picture of the Palouse was taken in the late summer. I lived on the Palouse during college, in the spring, it simply is beautiful. All of those fields are green, green, and more green. My home is North Idaho, true North Idaho because I know Moscow is considered North Idaho too , but I will always have a soft spot for those rolling fields. And winter wise, Boise roads are pretty equal to North Idaho on nasty winter conditions.

And for those of you reading this and have no idea what I am talking about, the Palouse consists of Washington State and Idaho.

Same in WI. You can't even physically restrain a child here now mostly.

Paddling is still allowed down here, but it's rarely done.  The principal always calls the parents first to see if they want their child paddled or if they would prefer an alternate punishment. ( I have talked to a few moms who've told me that they asked for their kids to be paddled in lieu of a different punishment.)  There is an op-out form that parents can sign too.  And like Cookie's example, there are a series of milder punishments that happen first before you get to the paddling.  A kid has to do something really bad in order to get paddled.

 

I'm the odd one out on this -- it doesn't bother me.  My dd asked me one time to sign the no paddling form and I told her I'm not signing it because she shouldn't be doing anything bad to get herself into that much trouble.

 

As far as I know, paddling has always been around in this state.  I remember some of the smart-a**ed kids I went to school with.  Suspensions and other non-paddling punishments were nothing to these kids.  Paddling was the only thing that kept them in line.  It's probably the only thing that keeps some of dd's smart-a**ed classmates in line too.

To be honest I don't even know if it's done here or not, but I doubt it. I've never heard of a single person who had a child that got paddled. I never really worried about it because my kids just didn't get into trouble. They neither ever in their 12 years even got sent to the principal's office, so I just didn't worry about it.