Corpun file at www. But a new bill up for vote will try to maintain some consistency. Larger school districts around the state like Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington have done away with spanking students. The Alvarado Independent School District is one of the few districts in the state that actively does.
AISD's policy states parents have to give permission for their child to receive the corporal punishment. And that's what the bill, headed to the state House floor on Friday, will require in every district across the state. No spanking unless parents give the green light first. In Alvarado students are spanked for many reasons. Thirteen-year-old Dillon Berry found himself on the receiving end of a paddle in school just a couple of months ago.
They go, 'Was that right? And more times than not it's the students who want to do that and pleads with their parents to let the school use that form of discipline rather than putting them in SAC," said Superintendent Chester Juroska. That's the school alternative classroom and it can cause students to miss class or even miss out on sports practice.
Some parents said the new bill is a lot better than an earlier one in the House that would have banned corporal punishment altogether. That bill died in committee. And you know, if they want to be the ones to even do the paddling sometimes that's even done," said Cris Ratliff.
All rights reserved. Proposed Texas legislation would require parental consent. A recently punished student describes his spanking, which he chose in preference to "alternative classroom". It hurt "a little", he says. CP statistics are quoted for Alvarado ISD where it was already policy to get parent permission first showing that most of the paddling takes place at the senior high school.
