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Re: Is this for real?
Posted by Laura on 4/06/08


    I have taught high school for over 20 years. Paddling works better than
    any alternative to change behavior that interfers with the chance other
    students have to learn. We give students a choice of detention or
    paddling, almost all take the paddling and it is over and done with.

    When I first taught in the 1980's, I wasn't so sure about corporal
    punishment and whether it was too harsh. I really wondered, so I asked
    the assistant principal to administer a paddling to me, to find out. I
    was 23 years old and weighed 105 pounds at the time. I got five licks
    full on, just as administered to students. Yes. it hurt like CRAZY--my
    buttocks was still bright red two hours later when I got home and it
    hurt to sit or even jog for a week. But it is not unreasonable; just
    very effective.


    On 4/06/08, sharon wrote:
    > On 4/03/08, To Susan wrote:
    >> Susan -- I have a couple of questions for you.
    >>
    >> 1. Do you have children?
    >> 2. If so, do you paddle them?
    >> 3. Do you know any other way than paddling?
    >> 4. HAve you tried any other behavior management method?
    >> 5. If not, would you try?
    >>
    >> Regards,
    >> An onlooker that is pretty appalled
    >>
    >>
    >>
    >> On 11/22/07, Susan wrote:
    >>> I guarantee schools that paddle have less classroom problems than
    >>> ones that don't. It is not fair to good students to have teachers
    >>> constantly trying to gain control of a rowdy class in a non-
    >> paddling
    >>> setting.
    >>>
    >>> How would these educated FOOLS feel if the Parents had a Chart with
    > infractions on it that state 15 Swats, by a Parent, if You, the
    > Teacher, hit MY CHILDREN?!!!!!!
    >>>
    >>> On 11/21/07, Yes, some Arkansas schools still paddle and we do
    >> wrote:
    >>>> On 11/18/07, Not an Arkansas teacher wrote:
    >>>>> On 11/14/07, Paddle in the Saddle wrote:
    >>>>>> If you hang a paddle on the wall in your classroom with a
    >>>>>> list of infractions and the number of corresponding whacks
    >>>>>> to go with each, and use it, you will find very few
    >>>>>> disciplinary problems.
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>>
    >>>>>> On 11/13/07, Susan wrote:
    >>>>>>> Hi, I am thinking of doing a discipline chart for classroom
    >>>>>>> management. I will first give a warning to a student to
    >>>>>>> correct behavior. If they disobey again, they get an X on
    >>>>>>> their chart...3 Xs equals one swat with the paddle, 6 Xs
    >>>>>>> equals 2 swats. They can earn Xs by not doing homework,
    >>>>>>> talking too much, swearing, etc etc...
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>> I am convinced now that paddling is extremely effective. I
    >>>>>>> have watched it work with other teachers as I was reluctant
    >>>>>>> to use it much. Thoughts?
    >>>>
    >>>> not, for the most part, have the major problems other states
    >>>> have. At least I don't think we do. At my school the paddle
    >>>> cannot be left out in sight.

     
     

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