Do you support the use of corporal punishment in public schools?

How about never?

Who's to monitor this paddling? How hard? How often? What if the child has an undiagnosed disorder like Asbergers or ADD?

Gail and adam AMEN!
We grew up without corporal punishment in home as well as in school.
We turned out to be useful and respectable members of our communities.

Our daughter had one spanking in her life. After some odd 50 years she still remembers it.

It’s difficult to wrap my brain around the idea that our country unapologetically endorses torture, or at best, torture is occasionally the subject of “debate.” I worry that brutality will come to define us as a nation. The increased lust for more creative blood-sport was a hallmark for the collapsing Roman Empire, (along with untenable debt and the inability to sustain a military that had grown to paranoiac dimensions.) I trust that Gail was being provocative suggesting a cage-fight solution, because knows very well that the kids most likely to get paddled in school, are the same kids who are the most paddled at home, they are ‘acting out’ as a result of being brutalized by their parents. What’s next, giving electrocution devises to policemen? wwjd?

Swift-
Let's see the evidence for your irrational claims. In fact, the evidence disproves your claims. Discipline works to teach your children right from wrong, how to avoid danger, etc. This is a good thing.

In the last 50 years, liberals have vilified parents who lovingly discipline their kids, with an occasionally, controlled paddle. We are not talking causing physical harm here.

The results of this villification (by peer pressure and law enforcement) is a generation of undisciplined, increasingly violent, ungrateful, permiscuous, and selfish young adults.

And Mommy and Daddy constantly tell Little Johnny he's the next best thing to sliced bread. They also complain about his teacher in front of him.

When teacher doesn't treat Johhny like a King, he's going to act up.

I don't like the corporal punishment but if Mommy and Daddy supported the teachers more, perhaps it wouldn't be considered.

swift:
"I worry that brutality will come to define us as a nation.."
I disagree with the future
tense.

I agree with Fran B that the parents often are the root of the child's bad behavior in the class room.
But since we can't hit the parents we just hit the children. Kind of the sin of the fathers etc.
Fran B that's unacceptable because it is unfair.

I recall that the principal had a paddle and I believe that fact maybe caused some students to behave better. Since I am a proactive parent I don't need anyone else to discipline my child. TAhe schools say they have a zerro tolerance for everything but they just ;let everything ride just like many parents do. Consiaztency is the key not paddling.

I'm pretty sure if I provided the voluminus body of evidence that supports my thesis, Peaches wouldn't read it anyway as it would cut into his Fox/Rush time. I can however, offer this anecdotal evidence; my 3 children never spent one moment of their precious childhoods worrying that someone might strike them and they NEVER had any disiplinary problems from kindergarten through college graduation. On the other hand, I was a beaten, child, (no rod spared,) and I was constantly in trouble for fighting with the other beaten kids at my elementary school...I can't determine your gender Peach, but I assume you're an adult. Try to imagine being "lovingly paddled" by somebody that stands 9'7".

Any parent who would put trust into a school system that allows spankings should be castrated for the betterment of society. There is a small population of nuts within every profession, putting the paddle in one of these peoples hand is going to screw a lot of kids up. How about we paddle the parents of students who do not do well in school? Watch parents get envolved overnight! And any person that endorses this plan must sign their name to it. If they are ever caught cheating, lying, driving recklessly, committing spousal abuse, child neglect,acts of AADD or displaying obvious signs of ignorance, will result in a spanking for them as well.

Ahhh...Red again with those pesky liberals who have totally screwed up the country. Everything wrong today is certainly their fault. Unbelievable.

Let's keep in mind that how one punishes their children knows no political side, and that not everything is red and blue. I know many conservatives who would prefer that others don't freely and willfully beat on their kids without their consent. Personally I'm not completely against spanking my children if they know that it's coming and is a direct result of their actions, but I certainly don't want anyone from school doing it on their terms and whenever they decide it's ok.

Is there not a differenc between beating (causing physical injury to a child) in a fit of rage, and a gentle paddle to correct a childs behavior?

No one here is advocating causing physical injury to a child, for any reason what so ever.

I especially don't want to allow that because it can be such a fine line that many don't realize when it is too much or too hard.

I totally agree! Where is that "fine line" of "too much or too hard?"
And on the socio/political side, the forbidding of corporal punishment in schools....it means no lawsuits or other court actions for child abuse
or even for battery.

Euphorically calling it paddling does not change the aggression in it. It is a tit for tat, with the adult having the upper hand from the start.

We found it a much greater
punishment to be barred from taking part in the games, or to write a hundred times I must not do (whatever) by next day, signed by a parent.

Hit the parents in the wallet when they don't get their kids in school and make it mandatory for them to bring and sit with kids on Saturdays for school. so they can learn to and when you make them lose their weekend time they will get things done. Kids with bad behavior can do fix up the school projects as punishment.