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In reply to the discussion: Georgia school to bring back paddling [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'm reminded of a very conservative friend whose view on corporal punishment was the very common "no one lays a finger on our children but us." I had already returned the form after taking a yellow highlighter to the "NOT" statement I inserted and was there when Judy was called because she hadn't returned the consent. She made sure they understood her position over the phone so coolly, crisply, and extremely definitively that I bet her they used a yellow highlighter at their end also.
Btw, this charter school gets government funds, and I bet this policy gets taken to court, if not here elsewhere. An automatic alternative of 5 days suspension sounds like an attempt to coerce people who simply can't take that time off work. It also harms the children. I don't know the demographics of the school, but I looked up the town -- nearly a third black.