Re: Paddling Children in School
Linkat wrote:I was researching some elementary schools for my child. When looking at one school I was interested in, I noticed with shock that part of their discipline for certain infractions was paddling. They had specific details on when paddling would be used and the amount of times they would paddle on the child’s bottom. It did not even occur to me that a school would paddle a child. Now I am concerned perhaps the private school I did sign my daughter up for in the fall could possibly use this form of discipline. I did ask how they handled discipline and there was no mention of paddling, but now I feel I have to ask specifically about it.
Has anyone had experience with a school paddling a child? Is this common? How would you feel about such discipline?
My first thought is that I despise anyone who calls hitting anything but what it is.
Is "paddling" the actual word they use? Yeecccchhhh. Would they refer to "domestic paddling" in cases of domestic violence? Or refer to one adult hitting another in the street as a "paddling"? Is paddling supposed to make hitting kids sound all cutesy?
You CAN hit kids in Oz.....some "Christian" schools do it, and some parents send their kids to these schools just so they CAN be hit. They sign some sort of "you can hit my kid" thing, though I think it is being looked at, for obvious reasons, and also, I think, because some of the far out sects have been quite vicious in their punishments.
I agree with the government that hitting kids in school is not ok.