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When a child in Switzerland would come home crying to mother that the teacher had given him or her a paddling, the chances are nine out of ten that mama would follow up with more of same. I suggest Miss Graner work over Roscoe some more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...applauding Teacher Gayle Graner [who paddled a card-playing fourth-grader, TIME, Feb. 10], Was it not a school system that insisted on the strictest possible discipline which mass-produced Hitler's hoodlums not so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Cheers to Schoolmarm Gayle Graner. Too bad she can't use the same tactics on Roscoe's parents for the audacity of their $2,500 suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...these progressive times, there is another course open to Teacher Graner: she can play poker with eleven-year-old, fourth-grade Roscoe, and see just who beats up whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 3, 1958 | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Cincinnati apparently approves such firmness. Washington's principal rushed to Teacher Graner's support. William F. Hopkins, a topflight Cincinnati criminal lawyer, offered to defend her without fee ("More paddlings like that would help to keep down our prison population"), and 40 members of the Cuvier Press Club sent her an orchid corsage with a note saying, "We salute you!" Finally, the day before her case came up in court. Teacher Graner got the biggest boost of all. Her entire class. Roscoe included, chipped in nickels and dimes to throw a "good luck" party to wish her well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Firm One | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

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