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Re: Is this for real?
Posted by anon on 5/22/08

    And Arkansas is ranked where in education? What a bunch of fools!
    Does that make the teachers feel good to paddle? Your so much better and
    bigger with a wooden implement now, arent' ya? Be ashamed. Somebody needs
    to paddle some educators. Then and only then will you change your tune.


    On 5/21/08, John wrote:
    > On 11/26/07, Ryan D. wrote:
    >> On 11/24/07, Paddling is common in my district, and if the parent wrote:
    >>> On 11/24/07, Not an Arkansas teacher wrote:
    >>>> I'm not trying to flame or be disagreeable; I'm really curious about
    >>>> this. Paddling is technically still allowed in my state (Texas), but
    >>>> I don't know of any place that still does it. I guess some of the
    >>>> very small, rural districts may still swat. I haven't seen a paddle
    >>>> in a school in over 20 years.
    >>>>
    >>>> Is it common in most Arkansas school districts? How often is a swat
    >>>> actually given? Is the possibility of one enough for most kids?
    >>>> No parents have tried to sue over it? The "Nospank.org" people
    >>>> haven't been picketing?
    >>>
    >>> doesn't want their kid paddled, they can take their sweet, little
    >>> darlings home with them. No suits that I know of. No picketing by
    >>> anyone. maybe they should picket to make parents do their job of
    >>> PARENTING.
    >>>>>> I can tell you from experience that paddling is for real. I came
    >> back from Thanksgiving holidays today. The gym floor had been redone and
    >> three of my students decided to walk on floor with street shoes. They
    >> ignored the sign that told them to not walk on the floor. I felt like
    >> they purposely walked on the floors. I had them to come to my classroom
    >> during lunch and I gave each one of them four licks each for walking on
    >> the floor.Word traveled fast because I told them I was going to paddle
    >> them for walking on the floor. Paddling works because we did not have
    >> another student walk on the floor.
    >>>>>>>I got paddled in March at my schol for not obeying a sign that
    > stated not to walk on the gym floor. I got caught by the custodian He told
    > me that he was going to turn my name into the office. My PE coach the next
    > day called me to his office and told me that he knew about me walking on
    > the floor and he thought I needed a paddling for it. I bent over his desk
    > and he gave me 5 swats with his paddle. I had to also sweep the gym floor
    > for one week every day during sixth block.I will not ever walk on that
    > floor again with my street shoes after it has been varnished.

     
     

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