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...light of your report on the Supreme Court's decision not to regard physical punishment of schoolchildren by teachers as a violation of the Eighth Amendment [May 2], I can see that we Americans who pride ourselves on our civilization are still several steps removed from it. While the majority of teachers may be good, patient and dedicated, the profession does have its sadists, and it is appalling that they should be given legal carte blanche to maul their students...
...supposedly once inhabited by the Transylvanian ghoul. Many of the tourists who climb secret staircases and descend into the dank depths of dungeons wear bags of garlic round their necks-the traditional method of warding off the vampire's bloodsucking kiss. In the spirit of the occasion, local schoolchildren wave their arms like bat wings and bare their budding fangs for visitors' cameras...
...gray pinstripes are formed by the repetition of Carter's -and Callaghan's-initials (see sample at right). Carter no sooner arrived at Woolsington Airport near Newcastle on this cool and sometimes cloudy day than he plunged into a crowd to shake hands, heft babies and pat schoolchildren on their blond heads and pink cheeks...
...teachers were held responsible for any students' failure to read. Hentoff points to the success of P.S. 91 and says it explodes the myth that irremediable learning problems result from the cultural environment of poverty. He places the blame for functional illiteracy on the schools rather than on the schoolchildren. "They were not born dumb," Hentoff says. "Their burden is that they have not been successfully taught...
Ingraham himself has since run afoul of the law and is currently serving a one-year jail term for resisting arrest. His case will scarcely end the centuries-old debate over whether sense can-or should-be beaten into schoolchildren. Despite psychiatric evidence that the practice is harmful and ineffective, advocates of the paddle see it as a simple instrument of law and order, and some of them swear by Proverbs 23: 14 -"Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell." Where local laws and customs do not prohibit paddling, misbehaving students will continue...