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Gov. proposes ban on corporal punishment
Sam Kay
Issue date: 2/13/09 Section: Community
According to Cagwin, physical punishment ended at Talawanda years before he started working there.
According to Thomas Southern, Miami university professor of educational psychology, research has overwhelmingly shown physical punishment to be an ineffective way to manage behavior.
"Education has come to the conclusion that there are better technologies for managing behavior ... physical punishment doesn't seem to work," Southern said.
Southern said that physical punishment can have long-lasting, negative effects on students subjected to it.
"You change the relationship between the student and the school when you use physical punishment, and I'm not sure that's something we had ought to do," Southern said. "School isn't the place for physical punishment."
According to Nadine Block, executive director of the Columbus-based Center for Effective Discipline, physical punishment is used harmfully and disproportionately on poor, minority and disabled students. She explains attitudes such as Leeth's as generational.
"Older people who lived through it seem to excuse it more than young people," Block said.
Block said that students have a right not to be hit.
"You can't hit your neighbor or employees, the dean can't pull you into his office and whack you with a paddle," Block said. "Don't children deserve that right?"
According to Thomas Southern, Miami university professor of educational psychology, research has overwhelmingly shown physical punishment to be an ineffective way to manage behavior.
"Education has come to the conclusion that there are better technologies for managing behavior ... physical punishment doesn't seem to work," Southern said.
Southern said that physical punishment can have long-lasting, negative effects on students subjected to it.
"You change the relationship between the student and the school when you use physical punishment, and I'm not sure that's something we had ought to do," Southern said. "School isn't the place for physical punishment."
According to Nadine Block, executive director of the Columbus-based Center for Effective Discipline, physical punishment is used harmfully and disproportionately on poor, minority and disabled students. She explains attitudes such as Leeth's as generational.
"Older people who lived through it seem to excuse it more than young people," Block said.
Block said that students have a right not to be hit.
"You can't hit your neighbor or employees, the dean can't pull you into his office and whack you with a paddle," Block said. "Don't children deserve that right?"
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Julie Worley
posted 2/22/09 @ 10:57 AM EST
Our family is committed to raising awareness and bringing about positive change for transparency, accountability and responsibility of Government Officials regarding the urgent need for Nationwide Uniform Standards that ensure Equal Access/Civil Rights of ALL Children in U. (Continued…)
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