Teens Face 'Corporal Punishment' in Rural Arkansas for Participating in Student Walkout

[workinclasszero]

Teens Face ‘Corporal Punishment’ in Rural Arkansas for Participating in Student Walkout
Three kids at Greenbrier Public School in central Arkansas will allegedly be smacked for joining the nationwide student walkout against gun violence.
Tatyana Bellamy-Walker 03.15.18 1:47 PM ET

Three students in a rural part of Arkansas will allegedly be smacked for participating in Wednesday’s national walkout protesting against gun violence.

Despite that drastic punishment, one student’s mother, Jerusalem J. Greer, applauded her son and the other students at Greenbrier Public School for their defiant protest following the deadly shooting that killed 15 students and two adults at Stoneman Douglas High School last month in Parkland, Florida.

“My kid and two other students walked out of their rural, very conservative, public school for 17 minutes today,” Greer wrote on Twitter. “They were given two punishment options. They chose corporal punishment. This generation is not playing around.”


According to Greenbrier Public School’s official policy, the school board “authorizes the use of corporal punishment to be administered in accordance with this policy by the Superintendent or his/her designated staff members who are required to have a state-issued license as a condition of their employment.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/teens-face-corporal-punishment-in-rural-arkansas-for-participating-in-student-walkout?ref=home

[SergeStorms]

1. Sounds like a job for the A.C.L.U.

Is there a local chapter in that area?

[workinclasszero]

11. I sincerely hope someone alerted the ACLU

about this bloody outrage!

[moriah]

16. I checked the published school handbook. Sadly it's in there.

I'm unsurprised given I am related to people who used teach in that district -- both that only three students participated, and that they punished to that degree.

Greenbrier isn't the only district here that still paddles, and I think that the number of students who choose it over other punishments suggests exactly how ineffective it is. Take a little physical pain or endure three days in in-school suspension, the most boring thing on the planet, like three days straight of detention? The pain from a paddling will be over much faster.

I still swear the worst punishment I ever received as a teenager was when Mom made me take the 14.4 modem out of my computer (for running up the long distance bill). She didn't know I was still getting online, had put the old 1200 baud modem in. But even text being 10x slower drove me batty.

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. This is so maddening.

[workinclasszero]

5. The gun humpers want violence brought to bear on these brave kids

They are full of hate and violence for kids exercising their God given rights that Americans have fought and died for!

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Makes me sick to know you are correct in every word.

[NutmegYankee]

3. Grab the paddle and bludgeon that pedo pervert over the head.

Self defense. It's 2018 for fucks sake!

[dhol82]

4. Well, that will make them more amenable to the right wing cause

Not.

[ecstatic]

7. Wow! I didn't know that still happened at public schools.

[Blue_true]

14. Is it even legal? nt

[AJT]

8. What great kids. They have guts.

[Angry Dragon]

9. Students risk corporal punishment over capital punishment

[workinclasszero]

10. Republicans/NRA: children, cower under your desks in fear of your life

Or we will come and get you!

One way or another!

[samnsara]

12. now that mother should remove her child from that abusive school

[Angry Dragon]

13. could be the only one in town

[aikoaiko]

15. They chose the corporal punishment? What was the other option?

[moriah]

17. In-school suspension for several days. Aka, the most boring detention imaginable.

I'm not surprised one kid decided to take a spanking instead. It shows exactly why they aren't effective.

[GulfCoast66]

18. We had spanking in schools when was a kid.

Ironically in Arkansas. But not in high school.

So if a 17 or 18 year old, after being hit once, grabbed the paddle, beat the shit out of the principle while calling 911 and claim self defense, I’m thinking that would end corporal punishment.

Unless, of course, the student was black. Then they would just shoot him.

[Igel]

19. I like finding things left out.

http://jerusalemgreer.com/

This will be good for business. Perhaps sell more books, have more traffic on her website or for her podcast.

I assume that this is the reason that this particular student was chosen for discussion and not the others. Or maybe the reporter didn't know.

[shanny]

20. I'm sure that will make a teenager more amenable

to unjust authority in the future. Be spanked or risk being shot...hmmm