June 25, 2009
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Another proud moment for North Carolina. The Senate voted Wednesday to reject a proposal to require school officials to notify a child’s parents before a child is spanked. The legislation would have also allowed parents to opt out of corporal punishment in the 55 school districts in the state that still allow it.
Educators and child advocates tried last session to abolish corporal punishment in public school, prompting off an outcry from religious right.
The same people who don’t trust schools to develop a sex education curriculum have no problem allowing them to determine when their children need to be struck to teach them a lesson. Nothing like teaching children about violence at an early age.
Conservative lawmakers have bragged about being spanked as children. One House member bragged to his colleagues last year that he was “beaten like a rental mule” as a child.
Advocates watered down the legislation this session to give parents the choice of allowing their children to be spanked. But even that was too much for the majority of the Senate and North Carolina remains one of 21 states that allows children to be hit as a form of discipline.
What century is it?
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If you’re talking “North Carolina Time” the answer is 19th century.
Here’s who voted which way:
Total Votes: 46 Ayes: 21 Noes: 25 Not: 0 Exc. Absent: 4 Exc. Vote: 0
Ayes: Senator(s): Atwater; Basnight; Blue; Boseman; Dannelly; Davis; Foriest; Garrou; Goodall; Graham; Jenkins; Jones; Kinnaird; McKissick; Nesbitt; Purcell; Queen; Rand; Soles; Stein; Vaughan
Noes: Senator(s): Albertson; Allran; Apodaca; Berger, D.; Berger, P.; Bingham; Blake; Brock; Brown; Brunstetter; Clary; Clodfelter; East; Forrester; Goss; Hoyle; Hunt; Jacumin; Preston; Rouzer; Rucho; Snow; Swindell; Tillman; Weinstein
Exc. Absence: Senator(s): Dorsett; Hartsell; Shaw; Stevens
one of 21 states means that almost half still allow it. that’s not really a compelling statistic for change.
if parents and educators are against it shouldn’t that effectively end corporal punishment even without a law? it seems that if parent and educator opponents should simply target a campaign directed at school systems this would effectively nullify the need for a law.