New Mexico Senate rejects bill to ban paddling in schools
3/1 El Paso Times
SANTA FE -- A bill to outlaw paddling in public schools failed Monday on an 18-18 vote of the New Mexico state Senate.
Sen. Cynthia Nava, D-Las Cruces, proposed eliminating corporal punishment as a legal form of discipline under state law.
Senators from rural areas resisted her, saying discipline policies ought to be left to local school boards.
Nava is the Superintendent of the Gadsden Independent School District. It's not clear to me whether New Mexico schools continue to beat children, but it's intriguing that our state Senate is so concerned that they continue to have the right to do so.
Spanking Kids Increases Risk Of Sexual Problems As Adults
Science Daily, 3/2 2008
ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2008) — Children who are spanked or victims of other corporal punishment are more likely to have sexual problems as a teen or adult, according to new research presented today by Murray Straus, co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire.
Straus analyzed the results of four studies and found that spanking and other corporal punishment by parents is associated with an increased probability of three sexual problems as a teen or adult:
* Verbally and physically coercing a dating partner to have sex.
* Risky sex such as premarital sex without a condom.
* Masochistic sex such as being aroused by being spanked when having sex.
Spanking Laws:
Warning: This website has a waving flag icon at the top. Also this:
WARNING- The existence of these laws are in NO WAY a DEFENSE for actually spanking a child in the United States. There is a De Facto SPANKING BAN, and there will continue to be until the New Agers finally figure out they are FATALLY WRONG and that they have DESTROYED AMERICA with their New Age parenting THEORIES- and the laws plainly clarified to ENCOURAGE spanking as necessary.
NEW MEXICO
An abused child includes one who has been cruelly punished by a parent/ guardian/ custodian. Sec.32A-1-4(B).[Ci.] Abuse includes knowingly, intentionally, or negligently permitting or causing a child to be cruelly punished. Sec. 30-6-1.[Cr.]
More spanking laws:
Kidjacked
"To seize control of a child, by use of force." That's what this site has at the top. Upon cursory examination, they appear to be pro-child rights.
The local Topix Forum weighs in:
Spanking Kids increases the knowledge in children that you have to deal with the Consequences of your action and helps create adults with a understanding of right and wrong
they need some kind of punishment. when the school suspends them they are so happy. thats what they want. i think they need to be paddled on there butts or make them help the janitors clean the messes these kids make. they need to fix it where cell phones cant be used on campus like other schools have. it does not increase the risk of sexual problems. you are a idiot. (ed note: this was addressed at me in response to my quoting the Science Daily article) parents just need to talk to there kids about sex and not let them figure it out themselves.
you are a lunatic, plain and simple!! (ed note: also addressed at me, by a user blogging under "Ted Bundy."
I remember when I was in junior high they would bust your butt for thr dumbest things-leaving a pencil at your previous class, not having a belt,etc.
If the kid deserves it, SURE. but have some guidelines & don't put the kids at the mercy of school personnel who could be hungover & have problems at home, or have anger issues.
I would like to start with a paddle on Miep's buttocks and and then add a few welts on his/her head. I don't mean that in a sadistic way either.
What a total waste of brains and a sorry excuse for a human being. Go do yourself. (ed note: See? It works!)
when i went to school there, we used to see who could win the paddle at the end of the year for most paddles. me and one of my friends won it 3 times.
back then it was easier to take the swatts than have them call your parents and really get a knockin in the head.
had one algebra teach which was famous for it, he also had a ruler with tape and would fold your fingers back and let it rip.
still easier than calling your parents.
definatley worked for us and we didnt regard it as a sexual thing, although the girls thought it was cool to watch us get it (ed note: Ibid)
Although it did not hurt, I was unfairly accused of going into the bathroom in 5th grade because of some strange problem and then was taken to get spanked. Left a nasty hatred towards people after that. Stupid teacher was stupid!!
Fair is was not Fair!!!
I should have made it Fair is Fair!!!
I rest my case.