Georgia school reinstates paddling policy
USA - A charter school in Georgia is bringing back an old-fashioned form of discipline that has many parents up in arms.
The Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics, which teaches children in Kindergarten through ninth grade, is bringing back paddling.
Parents
got
a
“consent
to paddle form,” asking them if they’re OK with administrators hitting their child with a wooden paddle.
The form says students will be taken to an office, behind closed doors, and will place their hands on either their knees or a piece of furniture, and will be struck on the buttocks with a paddle.
The form says no more than three licks should be given. The school says it will use a “three strike” policy, meaning the paddling doesn’t happen until the third offense.
Less than a third of GSIC parents have given consent for their children to be paddled. If parents opt out of paddling, they have to agree to up to five days of suspension. (WPMI)