Have you ever had your butt spanked or paddled? If not, then this may be the opportunity to find out what you have been missing all your life!

Most schools, if they paddle, I think they limit it to maybe 3 or 5 whacks …. there might be a school or two that still give seniors 10 whacks. Even that shouldn’t be much compared to what dads do to their kids’ backsides!!

Anyway, if you are finishing up your senior year, and you are at a new school, can’t you just behave, be a “model” student, and not get your butt spanked? What is wrong with that? Or what is wrong with taking a few whacks?

If the school still has the right to paddle 16 & 17 year olds, then would it be fair that they not paddle an 18 year old just because that person is no long a minor? I guess in a way the school is paddling the 17 year old (a minor) with the parent’s permission/consent. It seems only fair to me that 17 year olds and 18 year olds should have to obey the same rules (and get the same punishments). Since you are 18 (have reached your ‘majority’) then they would paddle you with your permission/consent. Perhaps even legally they could only paddle you with your permission; however likely they could expel you if you set a different standard for yourself — like, if you and a 17 year old disobey a school rule, and the 17 year old gets a few whacks, then why shouldn’t you also?

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And what about the Colleges in Kentucky? Do they have similar practices?

Also, if you’re 18, they probably wouldn’t be able to uphold it. The basis of the law is that it is used on minors, similar to a parent spanking a child.

It is legal, but that doesn’t mean that they’ll actually do it. I’d talk to other kids in the school and see what the actual stance on it is.

but it depends on which state you live in whether or not it’s legal.

Where the states stand on corporal punishment:

Alabama–Legal

Alaska–Illegal

Arizona–Legal

Arkansas–Legal

California–Illegal

Colorado–Legal

Connecticut–Illegal

Delaware–Illegal

District of Columbia–N/A

Florida–Legal

Georgia–Legal

Hawaii–Illegal

Idaho–Legal

Illinois–Illegal

Indiana–Legal

Iowa–Illegal

Kansas–Legal

Kentucky–Legal

Louisiana–Legal

Maine–Illegal

Maryland–Illegal

Massachusetts–Illegal

Michigan–Illegal

Minnesota–Illegal

Mississippi–Legal

Missouri–Legal

Montana–Illegal

Nebraska–Illegal

Nevada–Illegal

New Hampshire–Illegal

New Jersey–Illegal

New Mexico–Legal

New York–Illegal

North Carolina–Legal

North Dakota–Illegal

Ohio–Legal

Oklahoma–Legal

Oregon–Illegal

Pennsylvania–Legal

Rhode Island–Restricted*

South Carolina–Legal

South Dakota–Illegal

Tennessee–Legal

Texas–Legal

Utah–Illegal

Vermont–Illegal

Virginia–Illegal

Washington–Illegal

West Virginia–Illegal

Wisconsin–Illegal

Wyoming–Legal

* banned by every school board in the state

For more information check out:

Center for Effective Discipline

well, just wait until you graduate a move to a more modern school

as for the time being, at least theres no mention of dentention or suspension

…or is there?