Corporal punishment is illegal in the majority of the US, but remains legal in 21 states. Kelly Wallace reports on a new study that shows some children are more likely to get hit than others.
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Corporal punishment is illegal in the majority of the US, but remains legal in 21 states. Kelly Wallace reports on a new study that shows some children are more likely to get hit than others.
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#1 by YouthFreedomFighters on July 8th, 2010
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I can’t see why in their right mind any high school student would allow themselves to be paddled.
#2 by jmbhottie23 on July 8th, 2010
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The reason more minorities are being victimized by corporal punishment in schools is because its more likely a black, native american, or mexican being disrespectful and breaking school rules. Not because the school/teachers are racsist. I go to school with all different races and i mainly see black and native kids being disrespectful snotty little fuckheads who deserve to get the shit kicked out of them. But i dont think it should be allowed at school or home. Doesnt teach kids anything, at all
#3 by CodaCola on July 8th, 2010
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@fongwongchew I sympathize with you. Junior high kids can be shitheads, but the reason why corporal punishment doesn’t work is because it doesn’t teach the child WHY their behavior is wrong. Kids are humans, and all humans eventually start questioning why they should or shouldn’t be doing things they’re told, and if the threat of physical pain from the parent is the only thing keeping them from misbehaving, there’s nothing stopping them from misbehaving when that threat is no longer present.
#4 by fongwongchew on July 8th, 2010
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I’m in Jr. High, and I think corporal punishment in school should be legal. To many kids in my school aren’t affraid of being punished because nothing happens, and they NEVER learn their lesson, and just do it again until they’re suspended.
#5 by psvloverke on July 8th, 2010
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Even if my parents would agree with beating my (they won’t) I won’t! This is my body and if a teachter would beat my, I would beat back! Maybe that’s the diffrent between Dutch and American students..
#6 by Penguindog55 on July 8th, 2010
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On my last day at Primary School I was spanked by a cunt of a dinner lady
#7 by 1401JSC on July 8th, 2010
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What has the teacher who spanked a three year old with a paddle (what exactly does that mean? Bruises? Trauma? Redness? Pain?) to say about it?
Is 3 a legal school age? Shouldn’t a child of this age be at home with his mother?
How many parents spank their kids?
Aren’t teachers “in loco parentis” and entitled to do what a reasonable parent would?
#8 by 1401JSC on July 8th, 2010
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“Majority” = just a little more than half. But the word makes us think that it’s at least two thirds, therefore “representative”.
Its use is manuipulative in this context, though strictly speaking true.
Black kids beaten more than whites? Aren’t there more blacks in jail than whites?
Is it a comportmental issue? A racial issue?
Boys beaten more than girls.
In the name of equality, shouldn’t we be beating more girls?
Is it a comportmental issue? A sexist issue?
#9 by LHOTPFAN95 on July 8th, 2010
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i hate tennessee and these floods are not going 2 make them better
#10 by simon1812 on July 8th, 2010
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bah! military schools! feel sorry for those there, I grew up going to regular schools and high school I wouldnt trade that for anything in the world, nothing beats looking at the face of your first girlfriend listening to a biology teacher while taking on the subject of sexual education. kids have no use for military schools men do.
#11 by simon1812 on July 8th, 2010
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Beating a kid will make him grow up into a angry person, punishing him for misbehaving will forge character and humble him up. jail u say? though it can be a turning point in anyones life thats for criminals and transgressors I would not recommend that over corporal punishment, counseling? fat chance most ppl into counseling suck at it, especially the ones inside most schools they can end up doing more damage than anything else.
#12 by screwyootube1 on July 8th, 2010
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@simon1812 You’re so full of shit. I know PLENTY of people who turned their lives around with counseling! And I know plenty that managed to turn themselves around because they needed jail time. Likewise, plenty of kids grow up to be career criminals BECAUSE that’s all they learn from being beaten on!
And military schools raise fine young men that have no homosexual tendencies whatsoever! You stupid right-wing asshole… You don’t turn people gay just because they’re kept away from girls.
#13 by simon1812 on July 8th, 2010
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or the kid only need the belt in the back of his knees, two hits, and the assurance that the punishment will be repeated if behavior is not corrected. arrested? a waste of tax payers money. counseling? all those guys will do is prescribe Ritalin and convince there is something wrong with the child. sent to an school with no girls? good that along with no physical punishment you will be rising a little fag@ot,parents that avoid corporal punishment r just underestimating their kids.
#14 by StinkyKnobcheese on July 8th, 2010
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@screwyootube1 Exactly how hard is it to google women commit 50% domestic violence?
Come back to planet reality, you can still be cured of the vile feminist disease!
#15 by screwyootube1 on July 8th, 2010
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@simon1812 If it was an older kid, I’d have him arrested. If it was a younger kid, he needs counseling. If he’s a repeat offender, maybe the kid cannot be trusted to go to school with girls, and should be sent somewhere else. YOU people that support hitting kids like it’s your God-given right make cannot get it through your heads, that there’s other ways to get through to kids than pounding on them!
#16 by screwyootube1 on July 8th, 2010
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@YouthFreedomFighters Not everybody in high school are “huge kids”. I was 6′ 2″, but skinny… There were a couple of teachers and administrators that were DEFINITELY big enough to intimidate MOST of the kids in my high school. (Not that they were allowed to… they didn’t hit high school kids in California when I was in high school, ’80-’83, just grades K-9, and that stopped in the late 80s or so).
#17 by YouthFreedomFighters on July 8th, 2010
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@screwyootube1 Its kinda hard to physically force somebody to take a paddling if they’re just as big as you, if not bigger.
#18 by screwyootube1 on July 9th, 2010
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@YouthFreedomFighters – As I understand it, they don’t “force” high school kids to take a paddling, but they are given options that are detrimental to their future (things like ISS, or “in-school-suspension”, that goes as a black mark on their permanent record, and affects their ability to get into a good college). In other words, kids feel they are forced to “take a paddling”, because the alternative is even more unacceptable.
Then again, I don’t know that some aren’t physically forced anyway
#19 by 2Luke on July 9th, 2010
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@YouthFreedomFighters lets just say i didnt go to high school in the US.
#20 by YouthFreedomFighters on July 9th, 2010
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@2Luke Luke, they had corporal punishment in your highschool, up through your senior year? Lets be realistic now, I seriously doubt a big teenager in highschool would let anybody paddle them.
#21 by generalcrash777 on July 9th, 2010
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@aarongatescarlton
How do you know?
Using your logic, there’s a difference between reasonable shoplifting and shoplifting, the former is not harmful and there’s a difference between spousal abuse and reasonable chastizement of a disrespectful wife. the ladder keeps the marriage running.
Spanking as constructive punishment:
I don’t think so, according to the mountains of evidence to the contrary. What leg do you have to stand on to prove your point?
#22 by wickedjpan on July 9th, 2010
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oh they hit my little brother on my daddy’s side my daddy is in jail for murder because of that he murdered the principal
#23 by fitasafiddle123 on July 9th, 2010
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@MyDollBabies0388
I have to agree somewhat MyDoll, i really dont have a problem with Mom or Dad giving their son/daughter a spank to get away from the hot stove or road etc,,,but to allow a TEACHER to pick up a board and strike someone else’s child to cause Pain?
Not my child…….
#24 by aarongatescarlton on July 9th, 2010
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just like guns can be used to murder, or kill in self defense, spanking can be abusive, or it can be used as a constructive punishment.
#25 by generalcrash777 on July 9th, 2010
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@2Luke
You are the definition of ignorance.
“I was paddled and it works”
Just like I can make the excuse that I smoke and I don’t get lung cancer, therefore what scientists say about smoking doesn’t matter.
“It makes you think twice”
Fear and bullying are the cheapest ways to get students to behave because once the they outgrow the bully tactics, who’s going to paddle them next, their boss? Professor? Policeman? Good thing their other ways to discipline where violence is out, look them up.