To the Editor : I have no respect for anyone who would beat a child

[stopschoolpaddling]

To the Editor,
    After reading the comments posted online at TodaysTHV.com
this
week regarding the incident of assault at Mountain View School
by a
volunteer music instructor, I was utterly appalled. That there
are so
many people in this community who supported the comments and I
quote,
“feel sorry for the instructor” “he did a good job” “some of
the kids
I’ve seen at schools need to be smacked”, “ashamed that their
kids are
so unworthy” is nothing short of despicable.
    To even suggest that a child should be held responsible
for an
adult’s violent behavior toward them is positively obscene and
yet it
is this mentality the school district undeniably supports and
endorses
every time it allows their principals to carry out an act of
violence
in the disguised form of disciplinary corporal punishment.
     As a mother of 3 elementary students, I have no respect
for
anyone who would beat a child - period, much less with an
archaic
barbaric wooden instrument of torture called a ‘paddle’. That
this is
still happening anywhere in any school defies all decency and
those
that support its use are blatantly supporting child abuse.
Just the
fact alone that in 29 states and 21 countries this type of
behavior
will land you in jail speaks for itself.  If anyone else is
responsible for what happened last week it is this school
system’s
imbecilic support of violence against children and not the
children’s
supposedly unruly behavior.
      For those of you who will comment back to me quoting the
proverbial “spare the rod” verse out of the Bible, don’t
bother; it
wouldn’t take me five minutes to find a religious text to
justify
anything - including murder.
     Facts stand that corporal punishment is damaging to
children and
anyone who uses it is committing an act of savage premeditated
violence. If you must comment, please show me the documented
evidence
that corporal punishment in schools is beneficial to children.
Go
ahead and try to find some because there isn’t enough room in
this
entire newspaper to quote the number of legitimate studies
that
evidence the numerous negative and debilitating lifelong
effects the
children who endure such humiliation may suffer.
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