Corporal Punishment

Ugly Parents

Charlie Capen | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Corporal Punishment, Abuse, Parenting, Child Abuse, Activism, Parenting Advice, Spanking, Discipline, Howtobeadad, Hitting Kids, Parents News

I can't take it anymore so I'm writing this down ... on my phone. I'm watching a dad. He's the ugliest thing I've ever seen. Grotesque.

Read Post

Who's the Pervert? Is Hitting a Child More Acceptable Than Holding Her?

Erika Christakis | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Parenting, Spanking, Child Abuse, Child Care, Schools, Gay Parents, Parenting Techniques, Corporal Punishment Schools, Corporal Punishment, Paul Rusconi, Culture News

Single fathers -- gay fathers, no less -- seem to be under special scrutiny lest their loving attention veer into unsavory territory. Are we so uncomfortable with male nurturing that we assume something perverse about it?

Read Post

Spanking Still Allowed At Some Florida Schools

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Spanking, Corporal Punishment, Teacher-Spanks-Student, Spanking in Schools, School Spanking, Corporal Punishment at Schools, Student Spanking, Video, Education News

While punishing students by spanking them with paddles at school seems like a scene from Little House on the Prairie , it's still a reality for studen...

Read Whole Story

Counting On Us: Release of New Civil Rights Data Is the First Step in Helping Our Kids

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Aclu, School Discipline, Arne Duncan, Department of Education, Corporal Punishment, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Children's Rights, School Disciplinary Policies, Education News

Reliance on practices like suspensions, expulsions and arrests decrease academic achievement and increase the likelihood that students will be pushed out of school, oftentimes into the criminal justice system.

Read Post

If You Don't Hit Your Children Are You Giving Them Permission To Riot?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: British Riots, Spanking, Corporal Punishment, Hitting Children, Child Abuse, Smacking, Discipline, Parents News

Rather than find a way to lift a family out of poverty, or improve discipline and order in the schools, or provide activities and hobbies to poor children the job of the government is to make it easier for parents to hit their kids?

Read Post

7th Grade Teacher Accused Of Spanking Students

AP | Posted 02.06.2012

LAKE WYLIE, S.C. -- A South Carolina middle school teacher has turned himself in to authorities to face assault and battery charges after he was accus...

Read Whole Story

Three Dead Children, Three Accused Parents, All Adopted. Just A Coincidence?

Lisa Belkin | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Corporal Punishment, To Train Up a Child, Spanking, Child Abuse, Spanking Deaths, Michael Pearl, Why Spanking Is Bad, Adoption, Parents News

In three cases where children were apparently punished to death, all the victims were adopted. Merely grisly coincidence? Or cause and effect that society needs to face?

Read Post

Why Are We Still Beating Our Kids?

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Spanking, Corporal Punishment, Judge William Adams, Child Abuse, Youtube Videos, Domestic Violence, Discipline, Parents News

Seems the only difference between Judge Adams and a whole slew of other parents is their kids' lack of access to a camera. Whatever the justification, whatever the weapon, whatever the amount of force, hitting your child is still what it's always been: violence as punishment.

Read Post

Making School a Safe Place for All Students

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Corporal Punishment, Aclu, Carolyn McCarthy, ACLU Corporal Punishment, Corporal-Punishment-of-Children-Studies, Education, Corporal Punishment Minority Children, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Bv-Money, Bv-Parenting, Black Voices News

No child should be subjected to corporal punishment in school, but what's even worse is that corporal punishment is being disproportionately applied against African-American students and students with disabilities.

Read Post

To Spank or Not to Spank, That Is the Question!

Robi Ludwig | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Spanking, Parenting Tips, Parenting Help, Parenting Advice, Disciplining Children, Corporal Punishment, Parenting, Parents News

This child didn't need to be given reason; he needed parameters. One could even argue that he needed a firm hand. Sometimes, children push so hard because they need to know their limits and, on some level, want those limits enforced.

Read Post

The Conflicted Role Of Religion In The 'Rights' Of Children

Katherine Marshall | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Child Protection, Unicef, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Child Soldiers, Washington Network on Children and Armed Conflict, Search for Common Ground, Orphans, Corporal Punishment, Religion News

Making child rights into something that helps the children who need them most means hard, collaborative work by often unlikely partners.

Read Post

Mississippi School Sued For Allegedly Shackling Students To Poles For Hours

AP | MOLLY DAVIS | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Corporal Punishment, Jackson Mississippi, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Mississippi, Mississippi Schools, Civil Rights, Capital City Alternative School, Southern Policy Law Center, Education News

JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates have filed suit against Jackson's public school district, claiming officials at one alternative school r...

Read Whole Story

Corporal Punishment In Our Schools -- Teaching Through Terror?

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.04.2011

Read More: Corporal Punishment, Paddling, Early Education, Education, Academic Achievement, Education Reform, Education News

What does humiliation and pain teach in an academic setting? Apparently not academics.

Read Post

Saudi Girls Flogged For Orphanage Attack

Reuters | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Flogging, Saudi Arabian Girls, Saudi Arabia Islamic Law, Saudi Arabia Females, Saudi Arabia, Medina@Depressing, Saudi Arabia Women, Corporal Punishment, Saudi Girls Flogged, Physical Abuse, Saudi Arabia Girls, World News

(Reuters) - Six orphan girls aged between 12 and 18 were flogged in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of attacking the head of their orphanage, a...

Read Whole Story

Believe It or Not

Mike Farrell | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Corporal Punishment, Violence, Religion, Politics, Beliefs, Education, Children, Politics News

Consider the possibility that, primed by a barely-C-average-and-proud-of-it ex-President, a simmering anti-intellectualism has taken flight; facts no longer matter.

Read Post

Thank You New Mexico For Banning Corporal Punishment in Schools

Marc Ecko | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Corporal Punishment, New Mexico Governor, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Marc Ecko, Marc-Ecko, Marc Ecko Fashion Designer, New Mexico, Susana Martinez, Marc Ecko Enterprises, Education News

The time has come to abolish corporal punishmen, ending the threat of children being hit by adults and freeing children from the hostile environment this threat creates.

Read Post

Supporters Petition Archbishop To Keep Corporal Punishment

Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Corporal Punishment, Archbishop Gregory Aymond, Archbishop of New Orleans, Paddling, Catholic Schools, St. Augustine High School, Catholic Schools Paddling, Religion News

By Kari DeQuine Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS -- More than 500 students, parents and other supporters of St. Augustine High School marched Saturd...

Read Whole Story

Corporal Punishment In Public Schools -- There's An App For That

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Education, Child Abuse, Children, Corporal Punishment, Teachers, Tiger Mother, Teaching, Physical Violence, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Education News

If public school teachers in so many states are permitted to exist in a "do as I say, not as I do" world, what hope do we have of convincing our kids that violence or meanness won't be tolerated?

Read Post

Fashion Designer Launches Campaign To End Corporal Punishment In Schools

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Punishment, Spanking, Marc Ecko Corporal Punishment, Corporal Punishment, Marc Ecko Unlimited Justice, Paddling, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Marc Ecko, Unlimited Justice, Video, Education News

Alarmed that corporal punishment is still used to discipline students in many U.S. schools, fashion designer Marc Ecko has launched a campaign to end ...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: Paddling As Punishment?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: St Augustine High School, School Punishment, Corporal Punishment, Paddling, Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Education, Video, Education News

At an intense debate Thursday over bringing corporal punishment back to a Catholic New Orleans school, an archbishop said paddling could cause emotion...

Read Whole Story

Michelle Rhee and Masking Tape. Where is the Outrage?

Peter Zucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michelle Rhee, studentsfirst.org, Christopher Huggins, Masking Tape, Care2.com, Columbia Heights Education Campus, Alexander Russo, Jennifer Silva, Pamela Dahnke, Emily Metcalfe, Oprah, Corporal Punishment, Washington DC, Bill Gates, Washington Post, Laura Gatlin, Baltimore, Education News

I decided to Google past transgressions of teachers taping students mouths and wondered if these teachers were able to skate by as did Michelle Rhee.

Read Post

Bullying and Corporal Punishment: A Cycle of Hostility in America's Classrooms

Marc Ecko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corporal Punishment, Bullying, America's Schools, Education News

The hostile environments fostered in our schools don't always start with the kids, in fact, in 20 states in this Union it is legal to HIT KIDS as a form of discipline.

Read Post

223,190 Kids Legally Beaten in US Schools

Anthony Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Corporal Punishment, Politics, Law, Education, Human Rights, Schools, Politics News

The iron age practice of "corporal punishment" is still legal in 20 states and there are no federal laws prohibiting it.

Read Post

An Arcane, Destructive -- and Still Legal -- Practice

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aclu, Public Schools, Rep. Bobby Scott, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, H.R. 5628, Randi Weingarten, Corporal Punishment, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Politics News

On June 29, 2010, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.) introduced the "Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act," H.R. 5628. This bill would ban...

Read Post

Georgia's New Anti-Bullying Law is Cancelled by Corporal Punishment Policy

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Governor Sonny Perdue, Forensic Psychologist, Bullying, Georgia Equality, Corporal Punishment, Georgia, Georgia General Assembly, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Anti-Bullying, Politics News

Georgia permits teachers to inflict corporal punishment on children as part of their disciplinary procedures. And so we see that the beat goes on as we ignore the adult part in bullying.

Read Post