Georgia County Schools Reinstitute Paddling Authority

By Tim Grubbs
July 23, 2008
Health

When school starts up after summer vacation this year, parents in Twigg County, Georgia will have the option to authorize school administrators’ paddling of their children for bad behavior, according to an article from ABC News. Not surprisingly, the ABC News article’s authors characterize the practice as “beating,” and use a couple of poorly worded pull quotes from approving parents, then a barrage of quotes from psycho-social types who echo the “beating” sentiment.

Something you won’t hear from the network media, or any psychologist since it would have them all eating crow are these kinds of stats:

(Graphic sourced from: http://www.corpun.com/counuss.htm)

(Graphic sourced from: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org)

In case it isn’t clear, that’s a direct comparison between the reduction in corporal punishment at schools and an increase in juvenile assault cases in the U.S.