I grew up in fear of the paddle.  It cast a very large shadow over me and my less-than-well-behaved classmates.  Some teachers even bragged about the engineering that went into their paddles, "This one has slanted holes in it to cut down on wind resistance, you can hear it whistling as it comes for ya!"  They went by names like "Thunderwhacker,"  "Widowmaker," (even though none of us were married) and "El Diablo" (Spanish class), and I had my visits with these wooden tools of terror back in the day.  My 8 year old son, Deacon, has never experienced this phenomenon at school.  It seems that soon, that specter may no longer haunt any schoolkid in our fair state.

Not only has paddlin' gone out of style in most of the United States, according to US News and World Report - it seems to be on it's way to being illegal here as well. As it stands, Louisiana schools that use corporal punishment currently allow parents to opt their children out of the punishment plan that includes back porches and red paint - and that's over half of the the 69 school districts in the Bayou State.

31 states currently ban corporal punishment in schools.  This bill has made it's next step to making Louisiana the 32nd.  What do you think?

 

 

 

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