Corporal Punishment Taken Too Far, Says Mother in De Queen
By: John Kushmaul
Updated: June 6, 2012
A De Queen parent is accusing local school officials of taking corporal punishment too far with her teenage girl.
Vickie Bailey says a school official in the Sevier County town paddled her eighth grade daughter back in April, causing bruising.
Although she signed a corporal punishment waiver, the mother says her child was abused.
"I feel like I need justice done about it, and I don't like it," says Bailey.
School district officials say they can't directly address the allegations, citing student privacy law, but a spokesperson says no student has been unfairly subjected to corporal punishment.
Comments
http://www.nospank.net/paddler.jpg
Marjorie M.
June 7, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Currently in the U.S.:
When an adult does it to another adult, its [censored] battery:
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/12/va-beach-restaurateur-pleads-guilty-[censored]-battery:
When children do it to adults, its a "deviant [censored] prank":
http://www.theday.com/article/20101207/NWS04/101209750
When an adult does it to a person under the age of 18, its "good discipline".
Research/recommended reading:
Spanking Can Make Children More Aggressive Later
http://tulane.edu/news/releases/pr_03122010.cfm
Spanking Kids Increases Risk of [censored] Problems
http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2008/feb/lw28spanking.cfm
Use of Spanking for 3-Year-Old Children and Associated Intimate Partner Aggression or Violence
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/126/3/415
Spanking Children Can Lower IQ
http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2009/sept/lw25straus.cfm
Plain Talk About Spanking
by Jordan Riak
http://www.nospank.net/pt2010.pdf
The [censored] Dangers of Spanking Children
by Tom Johnson
http://nospank.net/sdsc2.pdf
"Spanking" can be intentional or unintentional [censored] abuse
http://www.nospank.net/101.htm
Marjorie M.
June 7, 2012 at 4:43 pm
In light of the Judge Adams video,
We often hear from those who fight to uphold this practice for those under the age of 18 (even to the blaming of the social maladies of the day on a supposed "lack" of it), but we rarely, if ever, find advocates for the return of corporal punishment to the general adult community, college campuses, inmate population, or military. Why is that?
Ask ten unyielding proponents of child/adolescent/teenage-only "spanking" about the "right" way to do it, and what would be abusive, indecent, or obscene, and you will get ten different answers.
These proponents should consider making their own video-recording of the "right way" to do it.
Visit Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education to learn more.
Marjorie M.
June 7, 2012 at 4:43 pm
I bet she wont do whatever it was that she got in trouble for again, the problem is people have no fear of the consequences these days because the know if they do something wrong nothing bad will be done to them in return
lloyd b.
June 6, 2012 at 2:20 pm
If I acted up in school then I was punished. I got the same thing when I got home. Kids have it way too easy now days.
Heather H.
June 6, 2012 at 1:16 pm
This does not fall on the mother it falls in the school. That is like blaming the mother if the child is riding on the bus and gets hurt in an accident. WEll she sould not had let the child ride the bus. It is the school's responsibilty to make sure the punishment is done without it becoming abuse.
William S.
June 6, 2012 at 10:35 am
then maybe the mother shouldnt have signed the paper
lloyd b.
June 6, 2012 at 6:59 am
