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After spanking of teen girls, Texas school board gives official OK
LA Times ^ | September 25, 2012 | Michael Muskal

Posted on 09/25/2012 12:02:32 PM PDT by Altariel

They’re calling it the swat heard ‘round the world -- and its echo is still reverberating.

On Monday night, the school board in Springtown, Texas, voted to allow students to be paddled by employees of the opposite gender if their parents give written permission. The board's previous policy permitted only same-gender paddling.

No one really argued with the idea of corporal punishment; at issue was the question of who gets to administer it, specifically can an adult male swat young girls?

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: childcare; parenting; school; spanking
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What's that? The former policy sets limits on what a government employee can do?

It must be changed!

1 posted on 09/25/2012 12:02:38 PM PDT by Altariel
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To: Altariel
I figured it would be changed.

/johnny

2 posted on 09/25/2012 12:05:08 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Altariel

“The board’s previous policy permitted only same-gender paddling.”

What if a gay man is paddling a boy? A Lesbian paddling a girl? Are there provisions for that? Probably not. Why?


3 posted on 09/25/2012 12:05:30 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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To: jessduntno

Homosexuals are only about 2% of the population.

The solution is to not approve of government employees spanking children.

Unless, of course, you believe government employees should be trusted with children.


4 posted on 09/25/2012 12:08:26 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel; Lazamataz

Laz is dusting off his resume and buying a bus ticket to Springtown.


5 posted on 09/25/2012 12:08:39 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

I actually AM heading to Texas.


6 posted on 09/25/2012 12:10:31 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The American news media, the 'Pravda Press', is fully Soviet-ized.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yet, if a non-government employee had spanked the same teenage girl and left marks on her rear, CPS would be on that individual like white on rice.

It pays to be a government employee, doesn’t it?

Other government employees will enable your behavior, and you certainly won’t be charged or arrested the same way a non-government employee wouldn’t!


7 posted on 09/25/2012 12:10:50 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yet, if a non-government employee had spanked the same teenage girl and left marks on her rear, CPS would be on that individual like white on rice.

It pays to be a government employee, doesn’t it?

Other government employees will enable your behavior, and you certainly won’t be charged or arrested the same way a non-government employee would!


8 posted on 09/25/2012 12:11:09 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: Altariel

“Homosexuals are only about 2% of the population. The solution is to not approve of government employees spanking children. Unless, of course, you believe government employees should be trusted with children.”

I’m not sure what this has to do with my observation that the rule is further flawed by omitting the obvious, grievous, error and putting children at even further risk of being a sex toy. Your point is what?


9 posted on 09/25/2012 12:14:44 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Socialism only works...in Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they have it." - RR)
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Not in this part of the world. Spanking is legal in Texas.

/johnny

10 posted on 09/25/2012 12:17:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Altariel

My only surprise is that they aren’t considering charging for the privilege of administering the punishment


11 posted on 09/25/2012 12:20:41 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Altariel
The solution is to not approve of government employees spanking children.

Fine, let's get to the core of that.

Who SHOULD be spanking children?

Scientologists?
Restaurant Managers?
Coach Sandusky?
Nuns?
Postal Workers?

Where do you draw the line?

12 posted on 09/25/2012 12:28:53 PM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo, being wily, pities the fool.)
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To: Altariel

For my own family’s viewing, I choose classic television that is suitable for children. Interestingly, in three different TV series, and one movie, a male lead was motivated to spank a grown woman who had been making trouble throughout.

Programs:
I Love Lucy (Ricky Ricardo spanks his TV/real wife, Lucy Ricardo)
Cisco Kid (Cisco spanks a lying, though attractive young woman [played by Noel Niell?])
Bat Masterson (spanked the lying, corrupt, sister of the mayor of Denver ... with the mayor’s blessing)

Movie:
McClintock! (John Wayne wouldn’t hit a woman in the regular manner. Spanking will have to do.)


13 posted on 09/25/2012 12:29:12 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I have a new zest for life!"--Calvin from Las Vegas)
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To: Altariel

In my day, a strap was applied across the palms of the hands. There were no sexual overtones (of course, that dinosaur leather stung a lot).


14 posted on 09/25/2012 12:34:55 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Altariel

In Texas this is tradition, we were doing it before all this PC stuff.

Swats were literally an ever day event in my school days, even the teacher could take you out into the hall and use a paddle, if he was the type that did that.

Whether it was in sports, the administration, or the classroom, or shop, swats were an accepted form of punishment for someone that just couldn’t be reached with other methods, normally this meant boys.

I held the record for swats from Junior High through high school, and it never occurred to me that they could be outlawed, but it was better than being evicted, or sent home.


15 posted on 09/25/2012 12:36:36 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: JRandomFreeper

After my dad retired he drove a school bus for a while. At one time he was world’s heavyweight wrestling champion so was not to be taken lightly. Told all the kids he had a spanking machine in the basement of the school. They apparently all believed him because they never misbehaved. Little girls all hugged his neck when they got off the bus and the little boys shook his hand.

When I was in grade school and you misbehaved you got to sit in the corner on a stool with a dunce cap on your head. Very effective particularly because you got a spanking from your parents when you got home.


16 posted on 09/25/2012 12:36:41 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Cisco Kid (Cisco spanks a lying, though attractive young woman [played by Noel Niell?])

“Oh Cisco!”

“Oh Pancho!”


17 posted on 09/25/2012 12:42:19 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Altariel

I had a spanking in Springtown. But I asked her for it.


18 posted on 09/25/2012 12:43:18 PM PDT by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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To: Lazamataz

Ahh, I thought that was you, in your brand spanking new vehicle.


19 posted on 09/25/2012 12:43:51 PM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen Meers)
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To: Dr. Sivana

For TV spankings, don’t forget Martin Mull’s “Fernwood 2-Nite” (on youtube) where a school principal demonstrates the proper way to spank a sixteen year old girl, complete with volunteer teenager.

;^)


20 posted on 09/25/2012 12:50:25 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Free speech is more important than Islam.")
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