ABUSE IN SCHOOLS IS OUT!
A check list of abusive treatment of schoolchildren and advice to parents
ABUSE IN SCHOOLS IS OUT! A check list of abusive treatment of schoolchildren and advice to parents
|
|
Corporal Punishment of Schoolchildren: Two Opposing Positions, Georgia lawmaker rejects comparison to slavery, January 2012 |
40 years old but 100 years young, By Foisal Chowdhury, New Age, Dhaka, December 11, 2011 |
A bright line not yet drawn, By Jonathan Zimmerman, INQUIRER - philly.com, November 29, 2011 |
H.R. 3027: Last Call! Time is running out., From PTAVE, November 29, 2011 |
H.R. 3027: Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools, Act of 2011 112th Congress: 2011-2012, From PTAVE, October 31, 2011 |
Letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry, From PTAVE, May 25, 2011 |
Open Letter to the Principal of a Paddling School, From PTAVE, April 28, 2011 |
Corporal Punishment of Schoolchildren: The Problem and the Cure, By Jordan Riak, March 21, 2010 |
VIDEO: GOOD MORNING AMERICA/New Mexico Governor yet to sign Legislation to End School Paddling of Children/Rally April 5th http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/teachers-spank-school-punishment-1328536 April 3, 2011 |
It's time to toss the trash, By Jordan Riak, December 2010 |
School Bullying: The Problem and the Cure, By Jordan Riak, October 10, 2010 |
All in the Name of the 'Last Resort': The Abuse of Children in American Schools, By Adah Maurer, Ph. D., Children's Hospital National Medical Center, 1977 |
Teachers Who Bully Students: Patterns and Policy Implications, By Alan McEvoy, Ph.D., Wittenberg University, 2005 |
 DARIA W., Age 11 |
When Daria exclaimed, "Something stinks in here," her teacher became annoyed and sent her to the office for a paddling. In her interview with Paula Flowe, Daria described how the principal placed a book on his desk and told her to put her hands on either side of it, and point her nose at the book. He warned her not to turn her head or he would hit her on the hand. Daria described how she felt with two big men -- the paddler and the witness -- standing in back of her with the office door closed. She said, "I felt like I could get raped." The paddling left Daria with bruises on her buttocks and severe pain in the lower back that lasted for several days.
Daria was paddled on three other occasions during this school year -- once for tardiness and twice because she forgot to bring documents to school signed by her mother. See Daria's letter to Rev. Jesse Jackson. |
|
An Arcane, Destructive – and Still Legal – Practice, Deborah J. Vagins, The Huffington Post, June 30, 2010 |
|
Get serious about ending youth violence, By Ed Wells, RRSTAR.COM, September 10, 2010 |
|
Time to Ban Physical Punishment of Students in all Schools, Stacey Patton, The Defenders Online - A Civil Rights Blog of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund web site, May 21, 2010 |
|
223,190 Kids Legally Beaten in US Schools, Anthony Adams, The Huffington Post, May 5, 2010 |
|
Paddle & Shield, Tom Johnson's letter to the South Carolina Legislature, January 27, 2010 |
|
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report Finds Hundreds of Allegations of Abusive and Deadly Uses of Seclusion and Restraint in Schools, May 19, 2009 |
|
CBS News report on corporal punishment in Chicago schools, February 11, 2009 |
| Message to school board members in a district that allows paddling, By Jordan Riak, February 17, 2009 |
|
|
"...Schools are often perceived by parents as bearers of cultural norms concerning proper child rearing practices and discipline. Hence, when schools and other child care settings employ practices not conducive to optimal child development, e.g., corporal punishment and other demeaning and threatening, negative disciplinary measures, they convey a subtle message to parents, namely that such measures are appropriate, as they are sanctioned by education authorities and 'experts'..." From "Violence Against Children," by David G. Gill, Professor of Social Policy, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. |
|
Title IX complaint alleges gender-based discrimination in TN paddling schools,
|
|
ABUSE IN SCHOOLS: A letter to legislators in paddling states and to school board members in paddling districts
|
|
Teachers out of their element , By Jordan Riak, April 14, 2009
|
|
Letter to Education Department Heads in Paddling States , May 27, 2008
|
|
Advice to a student who asks: "How can we protect ourselves from corporal punishment at school?"
|
|
|
|
Correlation between high rates of corporal punishment in public schools and social pathologies
|
|
Toxic schools of Texas By Jordan Riak, 2000
|
FOUR AMERICAN EDUCATORS WITH THEIR TOOLS OF THE TRADE
QUESTION: Who, other than schoolteachers, smacks people on the buttocks as part of their paid professional duties?
ANSWER: Click here.
|
A model letter to lawmakers, policymakers and others in positions of responsibility and influence in regions that permit corporal punishment of schoolchildren to
|
|
ARE PADDLING SCHOOLS SANCTUARIES FOR SEXUAL PREDATORS? A letter from PTAVE to education department heads in paddling states and their responses
|
|
CAN YOU IDENTIFY THESE TEACHERS?
|
|
TIME FOR A FEDERAL LAWSUIT OVER PADDLER PROTECTION ACTS?
|
 | Top ten paddling states
1. Mississippi SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, 2000 Elementary and Secondary School Civil Rights Compliance Report. |
 | Top ten lynching states
1. Mississippi SOURCE: The Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive |
|
