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| Subject: The Importance of Corporal Punishment in Christian Education | |
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Author: Monty |
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Date Posted: 19:04:46 11/14/23 Tue To those of you have children enrolled in a Christian school, did have children enrolled, or are considering enrolling, how important is it that the school use corporal punishment for a quality Christian education? When my eldest was entering the first grade, my wife and I took a tour of a local Christian school, which was about to start its first year of operation. We learned that they used hand spanking as a form of discipline. I was surprised by this, as the public schools as well as the local military academy had ceased corporal punishment years before. My wife and I spent many hours discussing and praying on the matter. We determined that our main concern was that the school was untested, and opted to send our children to public school. I am old enough to have seen first hand the rapid decline of corporal punishment in school. When I was attending school, every teacher had a paddle and they had a tremendous amount of freedom regarding its use. There were no requirements for a set number of swats, that the teacher be of the same sex, or having a witness. As you can probably imagine, there was no “opt-out” mechanism either. Some teachers would take you into the hall, while other made you take your punishment in front of your classmates. Some paddled rarely, other teachers so frequently that it seemed that a day did not go by without some poor soul being on the receiving end of the paddling. Some wrote notes home to parents, some didn’t. I even had two teachers who would make you sign the paddle, so that your punishment was memorialized through the ages. In those days, no one questioned this way of doing things. It was accepted that teachers had the authority to spank and if you were sentenced to a paddling, the only thing you could do was bend over and hope they had mercy on you. We also had a smoking lounge for the high school seniors, just to give an idea of how different things were. Some years after graduation, in my mid 20s, I became a middle school teacher in a district about an hour away from where I attended school. At that school, only the principal had the authority to paddle, and I believe its use was rare. In my second year of teaching, they began requiring a witness. In year four, they started sending opt-out forms. By year five, my final year as a teacher, the principal deemed the whole process so cumbersome that he opted to discontinue paddling. The sanction remained on the books for a few years before being officially banned. Looking back, it is shocking just how quickly attitudes towards corporal punishment changed. I hear stories of how out of control classrooms are these days, and I could make the argument that it all could be fixed if they would just bring the paddle back. Although, it is hard to say if that is objectively true or just the opinion of an old man reminiscing on days gone by through rose colored glasses. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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