Violence targets today's teens

Our nation’s children work with what we have given to them. Too much of our popular media glorifies violence. Parents, teachers and citizens can do better for our youth. We have raised our children with patience and kindness, taking responsibility for teaching them to “Treat Others as we wish to be treated”. Our 3 children, who we do not HIT, are intelligent, reasonable and well-behaved and attend schools in an UNRESPONSIVE Paddling School District. We are unable to protect our children from witnessing/overhearing "teachers" threaten/HIT students with WOODEN PADDLES just outside class for minor infractions, then the battered student is further humiliated when they immediately face classmates with red and tear-stained face when they return to their seat. School Paddling creates a learning environment full of FEAR, INTIMIDATION ANXIETY, DREAD AND HUMILIATION! Maintaining order through fear and violence is NEVER JUSTIFIED! Tennessee State Law does NOT require Parental Consent or Notification for Children to be Physically/Corporally Punished in SCHOOL!

Corporal Punishment of Children in Schools in ILLEGAL IN 30 STATES where schools operate everyday without physical punishment! There are Pornographic Websites that promote Corporal Punishment/Sexual Assault of Children. NOT EXACTLY EDUCATION'S "BEST PRACTICE".

Our nation's most prominent and trusted Children's Health and Education Organizations have issued official Position Statements OPPOSING Physical/Corporal Punishment of Children in Schools!

A School District in Leflore County, Mississippi was SUED TWICE IN ONE MONTH for $500,000 EACH TIME by the families of elementary school children INJURED by school employees hitting them with WOODEN PADDLES to deliberately inflict physical pain and suffering intended to PUNISH them and an elementary school principal in La Vega, Texas was ARRESTED last month for INJURING a child by administering Corporal Punishment (hitting him with a wooden paddle). A Federal Lawsuit was filed in Mississippi February 2010 to ban school paddling and also seeks a Declaration that School Corporal Punishment is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! The Cost to ABOLISH Corporal Punishment of ALL CHILDREN IN ALL SCHOOLS IS $0.

U.S. Congress just passed the “Safe Students Act” and it is expected to pass the Senate, BUT it doesn’t keep kids safe as paddling is still allowed in schools in 20 states!

Until Congress forces states to stop the practice of administering physical/corporal punishment to children in schools, as urged by our nation's most prominent and trusted Children's Health and Education Organizations, children will still be subjected to suffering physical, psychological and emotional injuries from beatings in many schools in this country and school districts continue to run the risk of lawsuits.