Discipline is one of those things which children learn at home from childhood.
Every parent knows how important it is to teach kids manners and etiquettes.
When the child starts going to school teachers expect him/her to behave well because they are already taught basic manners at their home.
We all know that some kids are less disciplined while others are more and a Texas public school district had enough kids who are well disciplined.
It seems the detention and suspension strategy to teach these kids discipline doesn’t work anymore and that is why the school district officials decided to take the corporal punishment route to bring back paddling.
We know that decades ago when students used to misbehave, teachers and principals taught them discipline through paddling. The punishment was not given for not doing homework or not using the hallway pass.
But the punishment was given to those students who bully others, do bad things or misbehave in front of the teacher.
The Three Rivers Independent School District asked parents to sign up if they agree with their kids to be paddled. They have the option to opt out with paddling if they want to. Most parents are in support of this decision.
Well, other schools are not happy with this type of punishment and they are not agreeing. They believe that instead of paddling, there are other ways to teach students lessons for their wrongdoings.
Some parents are worried as they think their child might feel fear of going to school because of this punishment, or maybe paddling can go beyond limits and their child end up injured.
The Texas Classroom Teacher Association defines this corporal punishment as:
”Deliberate infliction of physical pain by hitting, paddling, spanking, slapping, or any other physical force used as a means of discipline.”
John B. King Jr, the secretary of education has issued letters to schools and wrote: ”Approximately 40,000 — or more than one-third — of those students who were subjected to corporal punishment are black; black students, by comparison, make up only 16 per cent of the total public-school student population.
Similarly, in states where students were subjected to corporal punishment, black boys were 1. 8 times as likely as white boys to be subject to corporal punishment, and black girls were 2.”