18year old paddled at school

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Asher

How much do you want to bet these are red states?

She couldn't tell you what a red state is. Only reason I can is because of Poly.

ACK!

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Dissident


all the rules make sense except for the holding doors and pulling chairs for females. That's just sexist.

This is where i agree with you. there shouldnt be any rules to where the man ha to throw himself over a puddle of water to save the weak female. These gestures if demanded should be for all students.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Dissident


dp

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Here is another point a law professor states that an educator can use corporal punishment w/o age rstriction to further the purpose or maintain discpline. Now thats just crap. had one of my nursing instructers slapped me for arguing with another student well lets just say we would both be in jail. What kinda law is this?

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski

It would have been wrong to do it at any age. When i said thegirl was 18 i was trying to say the punishment should have been taken to her rather then her mom. And before asked bout the juvinille system here the school that these kids are sent to are basicly the same as the jails they are housed in.

Exactly. It is a sad comment on our culture that we get upset when an 18-year-old is beaten, but wouldn't care if the person was 17, or 12, or 8. Defenders of the current system claim it is for kid's best interest, and the list of laws denying them freedom and equality are for their protection.

How can anyone stand behind that farce when the law allows beatings of children, but not adults? Sending someone to the hospital is for their protection?

[KrazyHorse]

If somebody had tried to paddle me when I was 18 they would have been too busy looking for their teeth to follow through.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Tuberski


She couldn't tell you what a red state is. Only reason I can is because of Poly.

ACK!

He right i dont know what a red state is. I have my opinions but most of you here would agree i shouldnt b**** about the laws since i dont now nor have i ever voted.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
If somebody had tried to paddle me when I was 18 they would have been too busy looking for their teeth to follow through.

This may being giving my age away not that i care i love being the old age of 35 But i remember when i was in elementary school paddleing was legal then i also remember if you got into a fight at school the harshest thing done was detention hall or suspension.

[KrazyHorse]

Can I get a job paddling 18 year-old girls in school uniforms please?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Can I get a job paddling 18 year-old girls in school uniforms please?

[KrazyHorse]

I'd hit it.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Ted Striker


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Im sure the hugh hefner or larry flynt might have aposition open for that Dont think ur gonna find one in the schools though

[OzzyKP]

I wrote a Blog entry posted about this here:

http://www.oneandfour.org/

[OzzyKP]

For the lazy:

One of the most grating claims of ageist individuals is that the laws that deny young people freedom, equality, and civil rights are only for their own protection. That the status quo is one of respect and dignity for youth. To challenge the system as it exists will only put young people in danger - their freedom would endanger them, it is claimed.

One of the most glaring examples of their duplicitous reasoning is the support among many for corporal punishment. Often in my work, corporal punishment is very low on our list of priorities. Not because of a lack of importance, but because it seems so obviously barbaric and inhumane that I often fool myself into believing just a few fringe sections of society still practice it. Every so often I am confronted with the sad reality that it is not a fading peculiarity, but for many youth a constant, brutal reminder of the oppressive society we live in.

This article prompted me to address the subject. What is striking about it is the victim of this paddling happened to be an 18-year-old student - legally an adult. After a paddling that landed the young woman in the hospital, she is suing the school. This statement by her lawyer bothers me:

"This case is not about a crusade against corporal punishment," said Dan Hargove, her attorney. "It's not a crusade against charter schools. ... This case is about three adults holding down an adult female and beating her with a wooden paddle so bad that she ended up in the hospital."

Why is it any less of a crime if three adults hold down an 8-year-old girl and beat her with a wooden paddle so bad she ends up in the hospital? Or a 13-year-old or 17-year-old?

Forgive me if I wander, but this issue gets me so mad I can't think straight at times.

Our system of preferential treatment of adults is of no protection and no worth to youth. It creates a class of voiceless victims to brutality. The law protects this young woman because she is 18. The law has no protection for her 17-year-old classmates. They have no recourse, and no newspaper prints articles involving the brutal beatings they suffer.

Next time a person claims the current system of age restrictions is done out of love for children, and for their own protection, show them pictures of the brused and bloody victims of that protection. Those who suffer physical punishment of such form are not safe. Those who have no legal recourse to stop it are not safe. Those whose lives exist entirely in the hands of adult authorities who justify violence in the name of love are not safe.

It is often said we in the youth rights movement pretend young people and adults are the same in every way and ignore real differences between the classes. I am not one to pretend no differences exist. Children on average are physically smaller, physically weaker, and less able to defend themselves than adults. Why then do our laws protect the bigger stronger adults from violent beatings and not those in most need of that protection?

[Mrs. Tuberski]

I have stated here that i dont care how old you are the paddeling is just wrong. I in this case just as i would have been outraged if the person would have been younger, wonder why the the person inflicting the blows wasnt arrested.