Recently in Bristol, Tenn., the director of schools recommended that corporal punishment be dropped.
Mr. Kelly Buskell III was right in his opinion of keeping it as an option for discipline. When I was in elementary school in the early 1970s, I remember getting three or four paddlings. It hurt, but it did me good. I wouldn’t wish it upon any teacher to teach a class without having discipline and control of the classroom.
My mother gave me several whippings as a boy growing up and my dad gave me a good hard one, once. Did it help me develop good character? Absolutely! But also they took me to church many times, which helped as well. But I strongly recommend the board members of Bristol, Tenn., schools to reconsider. The Bible says in (Proverbs 19:18) chasten they son while there is hope and let not thy soul spare for his crying. Also (Proverbs 23:132,14) says: withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. (Proverbs 22:15) says: Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Christian people know that the Bible can be fully trusted. What the liberal left thinks about spanking means nothing to me. It is needed in the home, and in the schools. Abuse is never right, but a good whipping is not abuse. Please, school board members, think it through.
Robby Shaffer
Blountville, Tenn.
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