THREE RIVERS, Texas — The board of trustees for Three Rivers Independent School District in Texas approved a new disciplinary protocol that allows for paddling.
The policy allows for the campus behavior coordinator or principal to do the paddling, upon parental approval, reports KHOU-TV. Trustee members voted 6-0 on the motion.
So far, three students have had a parent provide written or verbal consent to be paddled. They will receive paddling for minor infractions, like not following classroom rules.
The board previously prohibited corporal punishment. The Caller-Times reports the campus behavior coordinator, Andrew Amaro, pitched the idea earlier this year. He hopes that paddling will have more of an effect on students than in school suspension or detention does. Amaro himself admits to being paddled as a student in the Three Rivers school district.
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"I believe it worked,” Amaro told the Caller-Times. “It was an immediate response for me. I knew that if I got in trouble with a teacher and I was disrespectful, whatever the infraction was, I knew I was going to get a swat by the principal.”
In total, 19 states allow for the use of Corporal punishment, including Texas. Texas law states that parents or guardians can write and sign a statement prohibiting corporal punishment for their child.
Massachusetts prohibits corporal punishment.
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