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There is nothing more horrid than this type of punishment. I can recall being hit with a ruler, paddle, pointer stick, having my mouth washed out with soap, sat in the corner, made to stand in front of the class (just stand nothing else), slapped, however I cannot recall why these things happened or what I did. Not only did this happen at school it happened in my home with the same result, I had no idea what I had done. As an adult I never laid a hand on my child. If something needed attention I talked it out and used other ways to punish besides hitting. My child knew what they had done because I talked to them instead of hit them. It takes way more self control to talk than to hit. There is never ever a reason good enough to hit a child.

I am a product of the 1950s-60s DC public school. When corporal punishment was legal, teachers had more control over the classroom and communities were "calmer" -- little-to-no gang affiliations, community participa-tion and communication -- the quality of life was just better ... we did a whole lot more with a whole lot less primarily because we learned at a very young age that there were consequences to our actions. I do not believe it is that teachers wanted to "beat up on the kids." Rather, because the teacher had this leverage the child knew to act and/or react differently. I believe we lost a lot when we gave that up. Children were smarter because they knew the adults cared about them; because I am from a family of teachers, I'm told we tested better back then. I truly believe that corporal punishment had a positive impact on producing quality adults. I say bring it back.

Excuse my english, but I'm not a native speaker. I am a math teacher and here laws are pretty odd.
In school we are not allowed to send out of class a student if he/she is disturbing the lesson, we don't have detention, we can suspend or expelled a student for bad behaviour (like drugs, beating, sex) but only after a council decide this.
But in most cases this doesn't resolve the problem, because we don't have the support from the parents. For the student, this is only another holiday.
If they are expelled, their parents will sue the school and the student eventualy will come back to school (because the law says that it is mandatory to finish 10 grade.)
Few months ago, one of my collegue was slaped several times by a pupil, in class The result.... the teacher was faired because she also hit the pupil, the parents had to pay 100$ fee, the parents sued the school and he will be student again at the same school in the next year. Sorry, I don't say that I agree with the corporal punishemnt in school, but in this cases I will hit as well because I believe that I have the right to defend myself.
As a child, I was never punished, grounded, beated, yelled by my parents, but at school I was punished (including corporal punishment) and I'm OK, I don't hate that teacher, I don't think that he harmed me in any way, I learned my lesson and I respect him for that.

The article should have a date, though the reference at the end to www.stophitting.org will bring the reader up to date on the latest info. The Oho legislature voted to end all corporal punishment in public schools, and last Friday, July 17th, 2009, the Governor signed the bill into law. It is about time, and now we need federal legislation to end it all over. 109 countries have done so already, including every developed country in the world. All Diocesan Catholic schools, and all order-operated Catholic schools in the U.S also prohibit all physical punishment now, except for one New Orleans high school, St. Augustine. We would not tolerate people hitting pet dogs with board, or nursing home patients, and we should not tolerate this legal beating of children either. Good school discipline is instilled in the mind, not the behind.