The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-05
PUPIL BEATEN
 WITH TROWEL;
 PARENT ANGRY Stratford Board Considers Complaint of A. T. Derby Against Mrs. Burlock DIR. CoGsWEI.L WILL ADJUDICATE TROUBLE: Youths Parent Demands Public Reprimand and
 Threatens Law Suit
 

Alonzo T. Derby employed at the D. M Read company store, says he is going to find out if it's perfectly all right for stratford school teachers to chastise pupils with an iron troWel I He has put the matter up to the town Board of Education If that body doesn't put some restr1ctons on the mode and means of netting out corporal punishment, he's going to see the State Board of Education about it. And, failing to gain satisfaction there, he says he will take the matter into the courts.
 MT. Derby says his son, Lucius, was subjected to the iron trowe1 form Of corporal punishment last week by Mrs. Jennie BurIock, a teacher in Center school The punishment, he main tains, was without any serious offense on his sons part. Lucius is A years old and always has been considered model pupil. so far as department went.
 Stratford is intensely interested in the outcome Of the case, which, thus far, has provoked special meeting of the Board of Education. a hearing for the teacher and the pupil in volved+and no end of talk in the old town For the present, the matter rests with pr. w B. Cogswe1i, chair man of the board. He has been dele gated by the board to see that the trouble is satisfactorily strengthened out,
 According to the story of young Derby, he sought permission to leave the room during the school session on Wednesday. He says the teacher ig- nored him. Finally he says, he was ordered out of the room. The teacher followed him he says, to the base ments of the building. and there the alleged chastisenent was administer ed.
 Young Derby says he was plentifully cuffed about the head and then the broadside of an iron trowei was laid across his hands. The boy told his father about the occurrence and then MT. Derby got busy.
 He says he saw Supt. William Ke1- sey and that he got little satisfaction theres AFE- Kelsey couldn't be seen today to find out his. views on the matter.
 The Board of Education was then consulted in a special session. The sons story. He demanded that the teacher make satisfactory amends and that some restraint be placed upon corporal punishment in the schools.
 The Board put it up to pr. Cogs- well to find a happy. solution to the boys story. Mrs. Burlock is a board CT at his home.
 The doctor says the. whole affair grew out of misunderstanding re- garding the boy's physical condition He says that a. reprimand for the teacher is unjust. and unnecessary and that the whole thing can be straight ened out satisfactorily if both sides will be just a bit reasonable.
 Dr. Cogswen admitted that an iron troweI was used by the teacher in chastistng the boy.
 Are there any restrictions as to cor poral punishment in the schools of StraAford ?'' the doctor was asked.
 'tNone, except that it shall be admin istered in the presence of witness,- as was the case here,'' he said.
 'Is there any restriction as to the means used? Are iron trowels O. k d by the 1a,w?''
 TRe doctor said he. wasn't just sure on that point
 Meanwhile, MT. Derby and Stratford await the doctors decision.