You were a teacher (and me confessing to my early life of' truancy)! . . . sorry teech . . .

we are a sue happy society. Sucks that we need to be that way.

wow!so much for comments.Do not need mine
when I was in elementary school at a young age and was called in the Principal off for discipline.Never forget this.
She will roll her tongue and bit hard while she is giving me a rat hand with a bamboo stick.She loved it.Must had a -----------------
And it did hurt.She was bi tch.

I went through the US Army's Ranger School, a year out of high school. In my high school corporal punishment was rampant and more like "Colonel" punishment. I got a bit more than my share of it. But in Ranger School it was so awful that everyone in my class (120 started and 28 of us finished) was covered with bruises. I think I still have marks from it on my body. Corporal punishment was nothing. We are raising a generation of wimps and sissies. Sorry if this offends anyone, but even the Army doesn't allow full-fisted punches anymore. I'm glad I survived it because it taught me to take what I had to take and learn from it.

It seems we hear more and more about parents who take the kid's side against the teacher who is only asking for some respect and a quiet classroom so all the children have a better chance to learn. Later in life these same parents wonder why their adult children are jerks and have no manners and raise little mouthy obnoxious grandchildren jerks.

I am glad Indiana passed this law and wish we had one like it. I don't like corporal punishment either but parents need to take the responsibility for teaching courtesy, moral behavior, and responsibility.
Little bully boys always aroused my ire. I wish that kind of thing could
be grounds for suspension .

This is long overdue. I am not a proponent of corporal punishment, but teachers today face students/children with no respect and no fear. These days, the number of children that come from single parent homes is much higher than past decades, and parents do not reign in their children like they did in the past. Likely we all have endured some form of parents allowing children to run wild in restaurants or disrupt other patrons with loud and rude behavior. I don't know how teachers maintain control of their classrooms with undisciplined children.

With teachers getting fired all over the place because of ''lack of funds'--instead of city fathers doing their best to keep these important people on the job I'm all for teachers being protected in any way they can be!
We once had a teacher--ah, Mrs. Levy--will never forget her--who, if she found you chewing gum, would stick the gum in your hair--try to explain that to your mother--they/we all survived the trauma of our mothers PULLING the gum out of our hair--double punishment--and we survived!

Lawsuits are outta control. I am VERY glad IN is instituting this to help the teachers... it's so strange to me that parents blame the teachers for their kids misbehavior...

Corporal punishment is not productive and engenders animosity and ingrains bad behavior in the resentful student. However, parents must be made to cooperate with disciplining their children. Perhaps suspension is the only alternative to really bad behavior. My Greek teacher (after hours instruction at the Greek church) once called me to the front of the class for punishment which consisted of beating the student's hand with a stick. As a pianist, even at that tender age, about 11 or so, I wasn't about to let that happen. I said the Greek equivalent of "no way" and I ran out and home. And never went back.