Poll: get spanking out of our local school, please vote HELP!

[WuWei]

Our local school still has corporal punishment. The newspaper is having a poll. Please vote to get hitting children out of schools!!

To spank or not: Gaston one of few school districts still using the paddle


thanks, Pat

P.S. Can only vote once. So, everyone please HELP!!

[greenmansions]

unbelievable. I voted (against of course) but also read some comments that were pretty disturbing. I also saw that the vast majority thought more spanking was needed on the poll responses. I wonder how many of those respondents have children in the schools there.

[WuWei]

Corporal punishment is severely used in the community. So, I'm not surprised by the vote. I've reported a horrible situation before where the child was repeatedly hit with the flexible plumbing tubing that the Pearl's advocate. He had broken skin on his legs due to the beating. This was a 12 year old child.

The schools are not as severe as the parents, in a lot of cases. The community is prone to choose violence in conflicts between adults too. But, the schools certainly don't need to advocate, perpetuate and model this type of "conflict resolution"!


Pat

[WuWei]

Thanks for voting.

Pat

[St. Margaret]

Yikes, votes for paddling are dominating the vote. So sad.

[columbusmomma]

Just added my no

[WuWei]

Originally Posted by St. Margaret

Yikes, votes for paddling are dominating the vote. So sad.

We are gaining !! 47% to 45%!

Please vote!! (scroll about 1/3 down the page, the poll is toward the middle)


THANK YOU!

Pat

[dachshundqueen]

I voted and then it crashed poor firefox.

Liz

[WuWei]

We are now ahead!! 47% to 45%


Pat

[Dr.Worm]

Just voted

[pianojazzgirl]

I just voted - it's now 50% in favour of banning corporal punishment at the school! (39% in favour of increased corporal punishment. )

[mamahart]

Just voted. Its 50/40 now for no paddling. The comments are scary and sad to me though, and I live in a small rural town where spanking is relatively normed.

[bluebirdiemama]

59% against paddling.... keep us updated please.... I can't believe they are doing that in school...!

[allical1284]

Just voted! When I used to teach, I remember my kids not wanting to go home because school was the only place where they felt safe. How sad that there are other kids out there that can't even go to school without the fear of corporal punishment.

[aidanraynesmom]

I tried hard not to read the responses, I wish I would have tried harder

62 to 37 though!!

[kittykat2481]

When I was in high school we had corporal punishment (10 years ago). Not sure if they still use it. The parents had to sign a consent for it, otherwise you had some other punishment like suspension or something. I'm not 100% sure what the alternative punishment was because I never got in that much trouble in school lol.

[WuWei]

Parental consent is not required in North Carolina.


Pat

[Jaesun's Dad]

Note sure what changes a newspaper poll will bring about but doesn't hurt to click.

Originally Posted by kittykat2481

When I was in high school we had corporal punishment (10 years ago). Not sure if they still use it. The parents had to sign a consent for it, otherwise you had some other punishment like suspension or something. I'm not 100% sure what the alternative punishment was because I never got in that much trouble in school lol.

I graduated high school in 1986 and there wasn't any spanking or paddling, ever, in any American public school I attended from grade school through high. This includes a few different school districts, albeit all in New York State. A few teachers would make empty threats but I'm pretty certain there were actual policies on the books that specifically stated that corporal punishment was not tolerated.

I was going to wonder aloud if this is backward regression or just a regional thing, and though it wasn't effected until I was nearly out of school looks like New York was one of the earlier adopters of a ban:

Thirty U.S. states and the District of Columbia have banned corporal punishment from use in public schools. The states, in chronological order of the year they banned, are:
New Jersey - 1867
Massachusetts - 1971
Hawaii - 1973
Maine - 1975
District of Columbia - 1977
New Hampshire - 1983
New York - 1985
Vermont - 1985
California - 1986
Nebraska - 1988
Wisconsin - 1988
Alaska - 1989
Connecticut - 1989
Iowa - 1989
Michigan - 1989
Minnesota - 1989
North Dakota - 1989
Oregon - 1989
Virginia - 1989
South Dakota - 1990
Montana - 1991
Utah - 1992
Illinois - 1993
Maryland - 1993
Nevada - 1993
Washington - 1993
West Virginia - 1994
Rhode Island - 2002
Delaware - 2003
Pennsylvania - 2005
Ohio - 2009

[LynnS6]

It's up to 62% no.

I'll try again from my home computer. Sometimes different IP addresses let you vote twice.

[JayJay]

Oh my God... So what (in the law) is the difference then between "corporal punishment" and child abuse???

Also....

A little birdy told me that if you have multiple browsers, like Firefox, Chrome and Internet explorer, you can open up the web page in each browser and vote again. Why not submit a vote for your significant other, mother, or other person in your family?