After Getting Consent From Parents, School District Brings Back Paddling In Controversial Move

Aug 27, 2018 by apost team

Opinions about paddling vary across the nation, but this school district put it back into practice. The parents consented to it.

The war against corporal punishment in parenting has been going on for quite some time. A lot of the states have made laws that prevent parents from disciplining their children the way that they believe that they should discipline them. Those laws carried over to the schools too. However, there are still some states that do allow corporal punishment, and there are some schools that implement it as well.

Three Rivers Independent School District just decided to reinstate paddling after many of the childrens' parents consented to it.

Paddling is an old-school practice that schools used to partake in before all these new laws kept popping up. Paddling was not designed for children who get a bad grade now and then. It was to discipline unruly children and set examples so that other children would not follow suit and be unruly like the other ones. Parents used to implement paddling in their homes and other types of corporal punishment. It wasn't until maybe the past 10 or 15 years that society started looking down on parental discipline.

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Not all modern parents are supportive of this concept, but the school district is sticking with its decision. Some of the parents took to social media and voiced their opinions about it. Some parents were appalled by it. Other parents were okay with it. A third group of parents felt that if parents didn't want the school district disciplining their children, then they could prevent this by disciplining them appropriately at home.

There was a mixed assortment of views from different people on this matter. 27 other school districts practice paddling discreetly. Some of the other districts fear that it can harm the children physically or cause a school phobia.

At the end of the day, it is up to the school district to make that decision, as corporal punishment is still legal in some states and counties.  

Tell your friends and loved ones who have parents about this story and voice your opinion on paddling in school. How do you feel about it?