Missouri school district reinstates spanking

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A school district in Missouri announced it will reinstate spanking this school year – but with a parental caveat.

Cassville School District superintendent Merlyn Johnson said he did not take the job a year ago with a plan to reinstate corporal punishment – a disciplinary measure the 1,900-student Barry County district abandoned in 2001.

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Cassville is a small town with a population just under 4,000 people, about 60 miles southwest of Springfield, near the Arkansas border.

Parents were recently notified of a policy approved in June by the school board to once again allow spanking in school – but only as a last resort and with written permission from parents.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/missouri-school-district-reinstates-spanking-we-ve-had-people-actually-thank-us/ar-AA113ntk

I went to school in a district that had corporal punishment. Beyond a certain age I don't think it did a damn bit of good. My attitude when I received a swat was "Oh yeah? You can't hurt me."

[Luciferous]

1. When my kids went to school in MS, you

could opt out of corporal punishment. Before that I didn't even realize that was still a thing. Also didn't realize there was a Confederate Memorial Day until the kids got a day off school for it.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Only in arm pit SW Missouri, where the GOP runs rampart throughout the area. At least the ...

population down there is a fraction of what's in KC and STLMO. Springfield MO is somewhat closer, but they are more progressive than a lot of these very rural towns in that part of the state.

[IcyPeas]

3. will more follow? that seems to be the way it goes these days, one county/school starts it then it

spreads. I didn't have corporal punishment on my bingo card.

[leftstreet]

4. Assault on a minor n/t

[frogmarch]

5. When I was in elementary school in the 1950s

school spankings and other forms of abuse were a common practice.

My 4th grade teacher beat kids or banged their heads over and over on their desks if they gave a wrong answer to an oral quiz. She didn't wallop me, but once, for chewing gum, I had to wrap the wad of gum in a tissue and put it into the teacher's wastebasket, then bend over as far as I could, with my head wastebasket until I passed out.

A young male 7th grade teacher made a friend of mine who was caught chewing gum stick it onto the class bulletin board, to where she could barely reach the gum with her nose while standing in her stocking feet, on tip-toe. The teacher then put thumb tacks under her heels. After what may have been 15 minutes, she fainted and collapsed, whereupon the teacher tried to use her unconscious body to show us how to perform artificial respiration.

If any of my own kids had been abused by a teacher, I would have raised hell.

[Emile]

6. I got spanked by my 6th grade teacher in front of

the whole class for talking to a friend when I was suppose to be reading.

Nearby the grade school was a novelty store that sold all kinds of gags like fake vomit, fake dog poop, etc etc. I bought a little bottle that had a picture of a skunk on it, skunk water. It stunk something horrible. So the next day at school the first chance I got when no one was around I poured the contents of the skunk water on the steam heat radiators along the classroom wall. We had class in the grade school gymnasium the rest of the day. That was how I rewarded my teacher for the spanking.

[GoCubsGo]

7. This brings back memories of a "20/20" type show I saw back in the late 1960s-early 1970s

on corporal punishment in schools. It featured lots of photos of badly-bruised and otherwise injured children. It was not long after that when hitting students was banned in public schools. It's just a matter of time before we're seeing another show like that on "20/20", "Dateline", or some other show of their ilk, now that the violence-loving crowd is taking over various states and school districts.

[Diamond_Dog]

8. I just don't get it

Being flogged by a teacher is OK

But

Hearing the word “gay” spoken or learning about social injustices in American history will cause life long trauma

???

[Cuthbert Allgood]

9. It is legal in 19 states. Most people don't realize that.

And it's shitty.

[jalan48]

10. When I was in grade school our principal would give spankings to the boys who had

caused some kind of trouble. I got spanked for throwing a snowball at a girl I had a crush on.

[roamer65]

11. If I had a kid, I would tell them to slap back.

Self defense.

[leftyladyfrommo]

12. I think a lot of people still spank their kids. nt

[Conjuay]

13. teaching kids how to hit people

Well, at least it's some kind of education, I guess...