Help With Understanding This One?

[alixipain]

ABC News ran a story on "Corporal Punishment".

It's telling me this; It's okay for a teacher to take a board fashioned into a paddle to beat a child with.
The child is not that of his own.
The parents of child would be charged with child abuse if they did so.
At anytime when someone uses and instrument to assult another with; especial an adult on a child should be charged with assult. But being he is an instructor it's legal?

 

[catjudo]

Wow! This made me google the story that you are talking about and I was also looking at the website for the "Unlimited Justice" campaign. I had no idea that corporal punishment was still used/legal in some schools. What's even scarier...it's only legal in 20 states and the state that I live in is one of them. I do know, however, that they do not use corporal punishment in my daughter's school (to the best of my knowledge it is not used in any of the schools in our district).

Don't understand why any school would find this acceptable.

 

[alixipain]

Thats what gets me, to the schools its acceptable to assult a child, the state, the school system, and the government needs to be charged with facilitating child abuse.

 

[anthony]

Catholic schools here still use such punishments in them, but public aren't allowed.

 

[becvan]

I don't believe it's still in use anywhere here, however we had residential schools and those pretty much did all the public in on using punishment of that sort in any school!

bec