Do u think that schools should let teachers spank kids?

Question

In Kentucky teachers are allowed to spank kids if their parents sign a permission slip saying yes. What do u think about that?

Answer 1

Violence is never the best way to discipline a child so I do not feel that this is apropriate. Parents shouldn't be spanking their children so why should teachers.

Answer 2

I thought the laws in Kentucky allowed for administration to spank with permission, but I didn't know that teachers were allowed... I'd be a little skeptical about that. At any rate, I'd think that a teacher shouldn't spank because that puts the teacher in a very different role. That' why we have assistant principles and administration, to deal with the side of education that leaves marks so that teachers can rule simply with their word and not with their fist.

Answer 3

No. As a teacher, I have seen a great deal of verbal "picking" on students. The same kids getting in trouble while others get off free. Can you imagine if we started smacking kids again, it would be just a matter of months before someone got the idea to use Tasers!

I remember hearing about teachers, back in the day, when they could swat, how they would use one kid as an "example." If your child were the one being used as an example and coming home beaten everyday, you would be mad. We don't have statistics of how many kids suffered serious injury, 75 years ago, but anecdotal stories from people back then can confirm that they did witness severe and brutal "lickin's" often for "crimes" never commited.
As for the statement, "Spanking was good for me." I am so happy it was for those writers but there are thousands of us who never had to spank and our kids came out O.K. too- not mass murderers but up-standing citizens.

Answer 4

I grew up in KY and this must be new or some private school or certain county b/c my parents never had that option to sign one. Either way, I do not think that should be allowed. I think spanking should be saved as a last resort when all else fails. Too many parents hit and spank out of anger, not to discipline.

I just looked it up and 23 states still have laws in their books allowing it:

http://privateschool.about.com/cs/forteachers/a/beating.htm

Answer 5

only 29 states ban corporal punishment.

This is what your involvement in schools and the electoral process is about. Make it an issue with your legislators.

Each of those school districts have local control and very specific rules on how and when it can be used. Often school councils decide this and ask for parent input on the matter. Specifically in Kentucky, school boards must have parents as part of a local school committee that makes decisions on school discipline among other things. So it does not matter what you or I think, Schools have local control.

Here is the link to one of the discipline statutes for Kentucky.
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/KRS/160-00/345.PDF

Answer 6

I've heard in Canadian schools kids used to get the strap on the plams of their hands, in England the cane on the hands or on the bum, and in the USA the switch or hickory stick to the backside.

Sure am glad the Canadian schools don't still use the strap -- I'm sure I wouldn't like it!!! But since I'm not in the USA, and certainly not in Kentucky, I can't see any reason why the teachers shouldn't "spank" those who don't sit straight, be quiet, and do their studies.
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Answer 7

OK let me answer this from a teacher's and a student's point of view...I was raised just as many kids in the south...with a good ole fashioned spanking...and to this day many people do this...99% of my students are spanked at home...in fact I have parents who tell me to tear their *** up..I DO NOT...but that tells me that , that is the method used at home...I repeat that I DO NOT SPANK in my class room...My teacher's assisstant does only because seven out of 20 kids in my room are either her nieces, nephews or cousins and to me that is her business...now as for me and what I do at home with my kids...they get spankings, just like I did and I did not turn out violent or mean ..I have respect for my parents, I have a college education, I have self control and I am a well rounded human being...but that's just me..

Answer 8

I think that's a fair rule. Although I don't have a problem with spanking unruly children, I would NEVER sign a waver ok-ing it unless I knew all of the teachers and their character. When a parent spanks a child, it should be out of love and wanting the child to learn that actions DO have consequences. When I was a child, spanking was implemented as the main source of punishment, and I thank my parents for it. I'm 23 and have never had a grown-up spanking (jail time, std's, unwanted pregnancies, financial disasters, etc...) because thanks to my parents, I learned at a young age that negative actions WILL have painful, negative consequences. My parents were never angry when they spanked me or my siblings. Sometimes they would wait an hour before spanking us to make sure. My mother used to bawl her eyes out when she had to spank me and I usually felt even worse for making her cry than I did for the pain.

NEVER should a child be spanked when the person doing it is angry, as the teachers might very well be prone to be. A teacher will not love the child like the parents do and will more than likely do more damage mentally to the child than good.

Answer 9

Generally, they should not, particularly in America, which is multi-cultural. Spanking is a formative discipline which transmits culture and social-class level, among other things. It should be largely reserved for parenting, and children should be considered to be pretty much exclusively parent property until the eighteenth birthday. School discipline is much, much less intimate. It's easy. First and second offense -- one hour detention. Third offense -- trip to assistant principal. He gives one week's detention. Fourth offense -- see the principal. He tells the kid: "Go home. Don't come back without your parents."
If I were teaching in a public school today, I would have the email address of every parent of every kid in every class, and the kids would know that I had them. Sometimes I'd email the kid's parent right then and there, even during class.

Answer 10

I don't think that's right to do physical abuse to kids for doing something wrong, and what parent in the right mind would sign a permission slip agreeing to that? and what teacher would actually do that to a student?

Answer 11

at the beginning, i do no longer think of that maximum individuals belive that spanking is "the superb way of diciplining". only because of the fact somebody spanks their baby would not recommend that's the only way they dicipline... I basically use spanking whilst no longer something is working, or if my baby places his or somebody elses wellbeing into jeapordy (runs into the line, tries to the touch the range, does somthing risky to sister) i believe that i'm the ascertain, no longer the college. If my baby gets in hassle at college, then they might touch me and enable me settle on what ought to be accomplished. (besides the actuality that an incredible variety of the spanking in my house is only accomplished whilst he wont stay in holiday, or is screaming uncontrolably, no longer possibly for a form of punishment, greater of a fashion of having his interest) colleges should not be diciplining my baby in any way shape or variety, that's MY interest....