https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2022/08/24/missouri-school-district-spanking-corporal-punishment-cassville/7883625001/
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. A school district in Missouri announced it will reinstate spanking this school year but with a parental caveat.
Cassville School School District superintendent Merlyn Johnson said he did not take the job a year ago with a plan to reinstate corporal punishment a disciplinary measure the 1,900-student Barry County district abandoned in 2001.
"But it is something that has happened on my watch and I'm OK with it," Johnson said.
Cassville is a small town with a population just under 4,000 people, about 60 miles southwest of Springfield, near the Arkansas border.
Parents were recently notified of a policy approved in June by the school board to once again allow spanking in school but only as a last resort and with written permission from parents.
Each family will be asked to opt in or out.
Describing Cassville as a "very traditional community in southwest Missouri," Johnson said parents have long expressed frustration that corporal punishment was not allowed in the district.
"Parents have said 'why can't you paddle my student?' and we're like 'We can't paddle your student, our policy does not support that,'" he said. "There had been conversation with parents and there had been requests from parents for us to look into it."
Johnson said families in Cassville have reacted differently than others on social media from outside the area.
"We've had people actually thank us for it," he said. "Surprisingly, those on social media would probably be appalled to hear us say these things but the majority of people that I've run into have been supportive."
He added: "We respect the decision of every parent, whatever decision they make."
Hey Timmy what did you learn at school today?
"That short, frustrated outbursts of violence are a means to an end!"
Fuck these piece of shit parents who support 3rd parties beating their kids, I can only imagine what goes on behind the doors of some of these families if they're ok with strangers being violent with their kids.