Posted: Apr 17, 2010 3:48 am
Texas city revives paddling as it takes a swat at misbehavior
TEMPLE, TEX. -- In an era when students talk back to teachers, skip class and wear ever-more-risque clothing to school, one central Texas city has hit upon a deceptively simple solution: Bring back the paddle.
Most school districts across the country banned paddling of students long ago. Texas sat that trend out. Nearly a quarter of the estimated 225,000 students who received corporal punishment nationwide in 2006, the latest figures available, were from the Lone Star State.
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I'm highly amused by this.
Not only does paddling cause students to loose any respect for the administrators who does it, but it's still the easier and quicker way out of punishment.
I wish that had paddling in my schools! I'd had taken that over being stuck in a class room, doing nothing but paper work in silence all school day.
Of course, a student may decide to just punch the teacher back in self-defense of course.
