Talk about an upside down world. These states that are enforcing book bans still enforce corporal punishment. Now which is really traumatic for a child?
This happened in Ga and I know for a fact that Georgia enforces a paddle. Bend over...grab your ankles and get popped with a board but it is not OK to read certain history and award winning books.
When elementary school teacher Katie Rinderle read aloud the international, best-selling children’s book My Shadow is Purple to her fifth grade gifted class at Due West Elementary School in Cobb County, Georgia, earlier this year, she never suspected that she was risking her 10-year career.
Rinderle had recently purchased the book by Australian author Scott Stuart at the school’s Scholastic Book Fair. Before she read it, the students voted on a variety of books Rinderle offered and overwhelmingly chose My Shadow is Purple, which was nominated for a 2023 Australian Book Industry Award. After the reading, the class discussed the book’s message of acceptance of oneself and others and embracing diverse and complex identities and experiences.
The students reflected upon how they, as academic achievers, are often perceived as different from their peers. They discussed the importance of recognizing and accepting people as individuals. And they expressed how supported the main character must have felt when they found friends that accepted them and valued them for their differences and uniqueness.
She was fired.
Now check this out
Corporal punishment uses physical force to cause a child to experience pain to correct misbehavior. In school districts where corporal punishment is legal, a teacher or administrator can use a large wooden board, or paddle, to strike a child’s buttocks as a form of discipline.
In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in its Ingraham v. Wright decision that school corporal punishment was constitutional. This ruling left the states to decide whether to allow the practice. As of 2022, nineteen states allow public school personnel to use corporal punishment to discipline children from the time they start preschool until they graduate 12th grade.
According to a study on corporal punishment by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, some school districts specify the exact dimensions of the paddles to be used. For instance, the Board of Education in Pickens County, Alabama, recommended that schools use a “wooden paddle approximately 24 inches in length, 3 inches wide and ½ inch thick” that does not have holes, cracks, splinters, tape or other foreign material.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, corporal punishment is used more often in Southern states. Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas account for over 70% of all corporal punishments given at U.S. public schools.
Disturbing video ..Paddling caught on camera in Florida. Click the Watch on You Tube Link.
All this should be brought up to these high minded and wrong governors.
Some of the media should be asking Desantis and other governors, so you allow school whippings but not learning about history or other things that you agree with? You allow corporal punishment?
Now you tell me which is more traumatic?