Corporeal punishment in Schools

   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.