THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, March 8, 1996 TAG: 9603070022
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 24 lines
There are ways to punish a child other than to use a paddle. If paddles are given back to the teachers, then some teachers might get really rough with them. Then the parents will take the school to court for child abuse.
Mark E. Duffy (letter, Feb. 19) complains that teachers have no rights. That is not true. Most students are disciplined. Elementary-school students do not bring guns to class. Teachers do not get beat up by their students.
If we do give the right of disciplining back to the teachers, it will not benefit anybody but the parents. If parents do not discipline their own children, then they are very lazy and not fit to be parents.
ANGELA DAVIS
Virginia Beach, Feb. 22, 1996 by CNB