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        Anyone in my generation knows what happened to corporeal punishment in 
the schools following World War II, and especially so following the infamous 
"Civil Rights Acts," which took away the rights of parents and children to any 
kind of quality education.

        Anyone in my generation was raised in the public school system in 
the 1920's and 30's.  We knew what the major problems were and didn't need to 
be told, even though they have been documented and have appeared in print.  
The major problems were: short cutting in the lunch lines, running in the 
hallways, chewing gum, loitering, and too much talk in the classroom.  
Following the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, where the schools were converted into 
veritable jungles, the problems became drugs, rape, assault, murder, and 
bombing.  Many schools have installed security checks to keep guns out of the 
schools where the kids have been forced to defend themselves against the 
Democratic senators and Federal judges who passed the Civil Rights Act.  These 
"Pablum Pukes" (as Morton Downey Jr. calls them) profess to have "bleeding 
hearts" about the poor little black children that have no "quality education."  
Under the guise of doing good--all kingdom-builders are bloody killers, and 
do-gooders at the same time--they forced the children together in a jungle 
environment where murder, rape, arson, robbery, assault, and bombing are the 
"contemporary lifestyles" of the great new "Pepsi generation."  Of course 
with this, there had to be the complete abandonment of corporeal punishment.  
Punishment came under the heading of what was called "child abuse" by the 
Pablum Pukes, and what it meant was, anybody could back them up if they 
were the right color.

        Now, we read in a Montgomery Advertiser, Sunday, September 25, 1988, 
that area school officials "defend the need to paddle unruly pupils."  Imagine 
that after thirty years of Dukakis-Kennedy-garbage dumpster-do-goodism that 
has turned the Federal schools system into a nightmare!  Speaking up for the 
punishment of the unruly student were a number of concerned parents and laymen.  
But speaking against corporeal punishment was good ole "Reverend" Willie Smith, 
a member of "Concerned Parents of Montgomery Schools."  (Willie Smith is a 
black Baptist minister, like Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King Jr.)  
In order to keep crime at the maximum rate in the schools, Willie 
Smith says, "A person can take a stick and beat his dog, and they will arrest 
him for cruelty to an animal, but a teacher can hit a child with a stick and 
they call it corporeal punishment."  The black minister said he feels that 
corporeal punishment should be replaced with in-house suspensions, work details, 
and counseling sessions.  Out of school, of course, you give the "unruly pupil" 
time in the "slammer" because the "unruly pupils" Willie Smith is 
referring to are students that carry sharpened pencils and screwdrivers and 
knives to extort lunch money from students in the bathroom and beat up 
students in the hallway who won't let them cheat off their examination notes.  
Out in the world this is called "assault and battery."

        For complete abolishment of any kind of whipping, spanking, or paddling 
is Dr. Guy Renfro, a Montgomery clinical psychologist of the same "ilk and kin" 
as the Pablum Pukes who got rid of capital punishment for murder.  Dr. 
Renfro said, "I think corporeal punishment as a form of discipline in 
the school should be abolished.  In terms of research that I examined, it is 
not as effective as positive reinforcement.  It can harm students 
physically and emotionally," he said, "and can lead to more behavior problems 
later on because of the anger over the punishment."  Dr. Renfro said, "It is 
important that we teach students how to solve problems and how to coper with 
them.  Teachers should reinforce positive behavior."

        		And how is this done?

        Dr. Renfro hasn't got the foggiest idea how it is done.

        How could it be done in the schools system when the Justice 
Department backs up the murderers and robbers and rapists?  It can't be done!  
How do you "reinforce" positive behavior in an African jungle culture where 
positive behavior is cheating, stealing, and lying?  Dr. Renfro doesn't say.  
They never do.  They can't.  They are the world's greatest mutes that ever 
lived.

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