A Georgia public school has decided to bring back the paddle after an absence of many years.
Liberals labeled corporal punishment as child abuse. I believe the rise in bad behavior in schools coincides with the elimination of the paddle. Bringing it back is an idea whose time has come. I remember very well when the paddle came up, attitudes self-adjusted. One teacher, Mrs. Randall used a ping-pong paddle on your hand. That hurt me… Many many times. I had two major faults in school. I was the worst behaved kid and two, I had perfect attendance. It drove my teachers crazy.
The Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics (GSIC) – a kindergarten through grade 9 charter school in Hephzibah, Georgia – has sent home consent forms to parents informing them of the reinstatement of paddling as a form of punishment for unacceptable behavior.
“In this school, we take discipline very seriously,” said Jody Boulineau, superintendent of GSIC, reports local CBS affiliate WRDW. “There was a time where corporal punishment was kind of the norm in school and you didn’t have the problems that you have.”
“It’s just one more tool that we have in our disciplinary toolbox that we can use,” Boulineau added.
According to the report, parents received a “consent to paddle form,” requesting permission to hit their child with a wooden paddle.
The school must have a parent’s permission, also they will be operating on the three strike rule. You get the paddle the third time you misbehave. That might be a little too lenient. If you know the paddle could be broken out at any moment, it works better. Nothing like the board of education on the seat of understanding.
From WRDW:
GSIC is going old school with a new policy for this year.
“There was a time where corporal punishment was kind of the norm in school and you didn’t have the problems that you have,” the Superintendent said.
You heard that right. Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics, a K through 9 charter school, is bringing back paddling students as a form of discipline.
Parents got a “consent to paddle form” asking them if they’re ok with administrators hitting their child with a wooden paddle.
“There’s no obligation, it’s not required. A parent can either give consent for us to use that as a disciplinary measure or they can deny consent,” he said.