I didn't want to discuss it until the facts are straightened out. One year after the School Board banned corporal punishment, Evelyn Battle White, President of St Louis Teachers Union Local 428, is asking for its return. There are unbelievable problems in discipline, with you providing but one administrative support of sending students home through suspensions and expulsions. In the past, many of these situations were remedied through the 'threat' of corporal punishment. It is against the law for a prison guard to physically punish an inmate.
Mental institutions have strict rules forbidding staff members to physically punish a resident.
It is not against the law for a teacher to physically punish a child. Sharron Masterson of Oklahoma City thinks students should have at least the same rights as criminals. To that end, she is organizing a statewide group whose aim will be the abolition of corporal punishment in Oklahoma's schools. But many educators maintain that corporal punishment usually in the form of spanking is only one discipline option, and one that it is not abused by the schools. It is, they say, used only as a last resort and only on students that they think it might help.