Texas district expands corporal punishment policy

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Published: 9/25/2012 4:13 pm

Updated: 9/25/2012 6:22 pm

SPRINGTOWN, Texas (AP) - A Texas school district has revised its corporal punishment policy to allow administrators of either sex to paddle boys and girls - as long as a school official of the same gender is present.

The change comes after the Springtown school district acknowledged that a male assistant principal recently paddled two high school girls. That violated previous policy that required a school official of the same sex as the student to carry out corporal punishment.

Texas requires parental permission before any paddling in schools. It is one of about 19 states that allows corporal punishment.

Cathi Watt's daughter was one of the girls recently paddled in Springtown. Watts says she's OK with paddling, but not with the new policy because the male educator used too much force with her daughter.

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therev - 9/25/2012 11:26 PM

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Its about time that the school's let the principles or counselors punish with the paddle again. We all forget that this is how us pre baby boomers were spanked in our schools and then when we got home our parents would bust our butts again. How I remember my dads fiberglass belt and the paddle with the holes in it. Back then we did not get into a lot of trouble like the kids do today. So stop complaining and let the punishment be started. Only if there is another person of the same sex in the room. In the sixties when thay stopped this the schools went to pot.

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