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| Balrog0 03/16/18 11:06:44 AM #26: | LightHawKnight posted... Isn't illegal to do that? not here in arkansas https://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2017/03/15/bid-to-eliminate-corporal-punishment-in-schools-fails Sen. Joyce Elliott (D-Little Rock), lead sponsor of Senate Bill 610, said that corporal punishment should be a parent's responsibility and that allowing corporal punishment in schools sends the wrong message to kids. "It should be the mission of our schools, I think, to teach our kids ways of resolving conflict other than there having to be physical conflict," Elliott said in an interview. During questions, Sen. Alan Clark (R-Lonsdale) asked Elliott if she believed corporal punishment "never works." "We can talk about my experiences with corporal punishment," Clark said. "I'll just say, I found them to be quite effective." Clark relayed one experience he had in which a principal paddled his son in seventh grade for "horsing around in the football dressing room." The handbook said the school should suspend the boy for three days, but the principal opted to punish with the paddle instead. "I got fire in my eyes, y'all have seen me that way, and I said, 'If you had suspended my seventh grader for three days for horsing around in the dressing room, I would have been mad.' So there are different value systems here," Clark said. Elliott responded, "I think you were in that position because you've been forced into a false choice" between suspension or corporal punishment. --- It's one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues . . . allow them a language as lousy as their lives ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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