Boys paddled more than girls? Paddling is racist?

Consider this my Stop the ACLU Blogburst:  (possible objectionable language warning)

ACLU Suing Over Paddlin’s? That Should Be A Paddlin’, Stop the ACLU

The ACLU, in cahoots with Human Rights Watch has released a “study” that shows in states where paddling is allowed minority and disabled students get a “disproportionate” amount of the paddlin’.

For the study, which was being released Wednesday, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union used Education Department data to show that, while paddling has been declining, racial disparity persists.

It gets a bit rough after the jump.

Aside form the fact that listening to the ACLU on discipline is like listening to a fox about how to secure a hen house what really bugs me is this whole swing away from “corporal punishment.” Since we don’t swear on this site I am going to to have to use a lot of asterisks from here on out because I am about to lay out a case for the good old fashioned a**whippin’.

Now, first off let’s discuss this whole “disproportionate” number of minorities and disabled that get these a**whippings. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, the reason minorities are getting “paddled” more often than other kids may be linked into the never ending downward spiral of the “minority” community. They have a higher incidence of ending up in jail, and there is no stigma placed on them in their community because of their tendency to commit crimes and go to prison, so what would make one think there would be a stigma about getting in trouble in school? Maybe the reason “minorities” get paddled more is simply because they do more to EARN it. If this were shown to be the case at least this is one instance of them earning what they received.

As for the disabled kids getting their heinies tanned for misbehaving many kids labeled “disabled” have “behavioral problems” and also have most likely earned their paddling. Now I know a bunch of you are probably going to throw all kinds of hissy fits in the comments about “beating mentally disabled children” and say what a horrid person I am for saying it but before you get on your high horse and try to lecture me perhaps you should know a little something something for the record.

I have, and have had since I was a wee youngster serious physical medical problems. At least, everyone around me claimed they were serious. I never let them stop me, and when I was a youngster with a nephrostomy tube in my side accompanied by the bag that stood in for my bladder the most constant refrain I heard was “GET OUT OF THE TREE!” Now I don’t tell you this for sympathy, because as far as I am concerned sympathy can be found in the dictionary between sh*t and syphillis. I tell you this to establish the fact that I grew up in a world in which mainstreaming “handicapped” kids didn’t happen, therefore I was sent to a “special” school full of “handicapped” children. We had physically handicapped children (who would prove to be some of the smartest and most capable people I ever met in my life) and mentally handicapped children (read; retarded) who, even though they were deemed mentally retarded KNEW between right and wrong and were held very accountable for their actions.

I have seen “retarded” people who knew better than to misbehave and chose to do so anyhow. Holding them accountable for their actions is the only way they will learn. With all the lobbying groups who constantly tell us how capable the “disabled” are one would think they would welcome the chance for disabled to be brought into the mainstream and treated like all the other kids who misbehave.

What I would like to see, and what this study seems to not have addressed (as of this writing I am still looking for the study) is the graduation rates of the children who get paddled. What are the incarceration rates of kids that get paddled? How many of these kids don’t go on to a life of crime of welfare because they are taught there are consequences for their actions?

Honestly we need to go back to the days where a paddling in school was the least of your worries. When I was a kid and we got into trouble in school we just knew when we got home the school would have called our parents and explained to them what happened and how they had handled it. We also knew if our parents got a call from the school the trouble we got into in school was the least of our worries. In those days when you acted up and (as grandma used to say) showed your a** you were in for an a**whipping of almost epic proportions. It USED to be getting in trouble was something kids tried very hard to avoid. Now kids know if they do something wrong mom will stand against the school because they just know their precious little snowflake would never ever act up like that and someone must have driven them to it by oppressing them or some such nonsense.

I’d also wager the drop in paddling can be directly correlated to a rise in idiot liberal lawyers. Think about it. We have lessened the places paddling occurs and now we have more idiots liberal lawyers who have nothing better to do than whine about the number of kids being paddled. There must be a connection. Maybe the ACLU can commission a study of THAT, eh?

Anyway, I call B*LLSH*T. Paddle those little rat b**tards when they get out of line and let them know there are consequences for misbehaving. Maybe if we’d get a little more paddling we would have a whole lot less useless adults blaming everyone and everything for their own failings and misdeeds. And maybe, just maybe it would cut down on the exploding number of ACLU lawyers who have nothing better to do than undermine the discipline of this nations children.

Comments

[Katie]

And maybe if these children had discipline at home they wouldn't be paddled at school. Too many parents refuse to discipline their children at home, feeling it might harm their "self-esteem" that these same children are the ones who misbehave at school.

This is the result of allowing leftist thought to prevail in our lives. No discipline, no punishments, and smiley faces all around.

[jorgeheviaesq@bellsouth.net]

I was diaciplined at an all boys high school (ages 14 to 18), and got the strap from my mom afterwards.

It worked.