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As many of you know, this past April marked the 10th year anniversary of Columbine and as the new school year is well underway, this brings up the topic of things that we experience everyday in our schools as a result of such incidents. These things include stuff like metal detectors, backpack searches, drug dogs and other zero tolerance policies in schools as well as the topic of how to maintain control in the classroom and what the line is between abuse and discipline in a schoolroom setting.
Corporal punishment, by definition, is the infliction of pain or confinement as a penalty for an offense committed by a student and includes, but is not limited to, paddling, excessive time outs, including the entrapment of a child in a small enclosed dark spaces and forcing children to consume foods they would not otherwise digest. (this includes things like tobacco sauce or soap.) If this wasn't enough, after Columbine and things like it schools started implementing Zero Tolerance policies which pretty much meant that both parties in a fight, regardless of guilt receive the exact same treatment.
At the highschool I graduated from in 2008, we were told point blank if we so much as raised our arms to shield ourselves from an attack we'd receive the same punishment as our attacker. There was girl in the Iowa area who was strip searched because they thought she had tylenol on her person [they didn't find any] which was against the zero tolerance policy. Carrying a spork, in some schools, is the same as carrying a knife and brings with it the same punishment. In September of 2009, a first grader in the US was arrested for bringing a Cub Scout all-in-one cooking utensil to school.
A few facts to remember:
Corporal punishment, by definition, is the infliction of pain or confinement as a penalty for an offense committed by a student and includes, but is not limited to, paddling, excessive time outs, including the entrapment of a child in a small enclosed dark spaces and forcing children to consume foods they would not otherwise digest. (this includes things like tobacco sauce or soap.) If this wasn't enough, after Columbine and things like it schools started implementing Zero Tolerance policies which pretty much meant that both parties in a fight, regardless of guilt receive the exact same treatment.
At the highschool I graduated from in 2008, we were told point blank if we so much as raised our arms to shield ourselves from an attack we'd receive the same punishment as our attacker. There was girl in the Iowa area who was strip searched because they thought she had tylenol on her person [they didn't find any] which was against the zero tolerance policy. Carrying a spork, in some schools, is the same as carrying a knife and brings with it the same punishment. In September of 2009, a first grader in the US was arrested for bringing a Cub Scout all-in-one cooking utensil to school.
A few facts to remember:
- 30 states in the US have banned corporal punishment in public schools. 3 have banned it in public and private.
- Canada has completely banned corporal punishment
- Corporal punishment is often considered 'optional' and thus excuses the school from persecution because the student 'choses' to be punished in such a way
- Is Corporal Punishment an effective tool in schools?
- Does Zero Tolerance work or does it violate student rights?
- What should be done to keep kids in line in the classroom?
- What is the line between discipline and abuse in the classroom?
- Do students have rights to complain about how they are punished?
- Anyone have any experience with these sorts of things?
- Teachers who abuse students are often given protection by the school district. Does a Teacher's word mean more than a students in such allegations?
- For those outside the US, do you experience anything like this? What's legal/what's not?