The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 153, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1968 Page: 3 of 21
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Parents, Teachers Debate Physical Punishment
Friday, December 20, I960
By JEAN KKONEBEIGKB
Kids call them "Ucks." Some
of the teachers good naturdely
call them "swata."
School board members at
public hearing this week used
the formal term, “physical pun-
ishment." And what Freudians
have had to say about the sub-
ject might be called "shock-
ing" to the sensibilities of us
whore delivered a few well-
placed smacks to our own un-
ruly small fry without giving
the matter much thought.
Parental opinion on the sub-
ject of physical punishmeot In
the schools differs widely. Few
parents send their kids off with
the old admonition, “Get
lickin’ at school, you’ll gel an-
other at home." But several
teachers at the hearing said
some parents have urged them
to give "licks" 10 their chil-
dren for misbehavior.
Other parents object, feeling
that authority to "hit" other
people's children may be sub-
ject to abuse and even dan
geroua.
“It’s possible for an element
of sadism to be involved, I’m
afraid," one Baytown mother
commented this week. And an
other added, "They ought
get a psychiatrist to testify on
this. A normal teacher wouldn't
abuse authority. But I've known
of cases where disturbed types
were getting their kicks that
way."
Teachers at the hearing gen-
erally felt that classroom con-
trol would be severely weak-
ened without the possibility
physical punishment.
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BOARDS CONCENSUS
The concensus of board mem-
bers was that discipline is im-
portant, but that "knowing
where to set limitations" is the
problem. Toward this end the
board directed the adminis
tration to study the district’s
current policy.
Several board members won
dered if the policy outlined in
the Principal’s Handbook is
perhaps being observed too
raauiihr.
The handbook states that any
teacher administering physical
punishmeot must do so in the
presence of a faculty witness,
and that both witness and
teacher must sign the proper
forms and return them to the
school office.
Do we actually follow the
policy in all cases?" asked
Trustee Philip Dignam.
“I believe in most instances,"
replied Supt. George Gentry.
Walker asked if forms had
been Oiled out in the case of
Rudy Stephen Walker, Sterling
whose father, R. J.
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Walker,
hearing
given i
••IL
had asked for
after his son was
single disciplinary
lick” which he said requited
medical attention.
Gentry replied that they bad
not been Oiled out imrnmedi-
ately, but were "in the after-
noon" when the investigation
began.
’Then we don’t always fol-
low It," said Dignam.
Trustee Robert C. Wahrmund
said he fell the term “reason-
ableness" In the handbook
might not have been an ade-
quate safeguard In the Walker
case.
PUNISHMENT DEGREE
He said he thought the term
should be applied “to the
feme, and to whether we oeed
to us# physical punishmeot,"
as well as to the degree ■
punishmeot.
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lions 1 safeguards," Wahrmund was “no need to keep a diary
said. He added that be thought of every little tocideot. It would
the policy ought to be reviewed almost take a bookkeeper.”
to make sure "we don’t leave Mrs. Porter alas said that al-
ourselves liable, as well as though girls were not subject
from the humane standpoint.” to physical punishment, she
Supt. Gentry said caws in felt "gtris could sometimes
the school district, but only the receiving physics! punishment,
person administering punish- but that the unwritten policy
mem was that they generally do not.
Trustee Fabian Green well ask- Dignam expressed concern
ed for clarification of what had because policy interpretations
prompted punishment In the "seem to differ from class to
Walker caw. Supt. Gentry re- class, from school to school,
pin'd that "the fact that a and from teacher to teacher."
youth got a drink of water is However, other board mem
not our primary concern." hers favored Individual disete-
Gentry coattoesd that in a tion. Trustee Glenn Lippmann
sizable group of youths,” a wdd he felt "teachers should be
teacher “has to be in control of given every leeway.”
the situation to order to carry GyM HORSEPLAV
tire activity." and tost Jaraes EUls Mtd the
some equipment requires clow jltuall00 ^ cUsaea usual.
supervision to avoid injury to Solves a larger group, and
,0r“htf1________ wtth boys, there is aiways
In tl^ tostonce, Gratry said, me problem “ of a certain
there had been thefts at the amount of horseplay. ”
schooL and the boys had been He Mid feu ^ situatioo
asked not to return to the dress fn)m um to an
tog area unsupervised. ____ EngUsh da ^ „ ta.
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other teachers and ad- felt teachers needed some
mtoistrators present, expressed -leeway” ,or wiDg ^ own
support of the district’s pres- discretion to maintaining dis-
ent poUcy. opto*.
"I would hate to see the al- walker termed “ridiculous"
terns live of physical punish- Migy.iinn. by EUls and Ster-1
mem be removed,” said Rob- y,» Assistant Principal Don
ert E. Lee High School Prim Treuhanlt that his son was per-
c4mI Henry Armstrong. haps a boy who bruised easily.
Highlands Junior School Prta- -1^, me assure you he's
dpal Bud Closs and Stephen quite nonn,] a, ^t respect,”
F. Austin - Alama Elementary walker said. “A couple of
Principal Kelly Martin •!*> months earlier he was involved
agreed they felt physical pun- ta a mini-bike accident which
ishment was often more effec- almost Wre ^ teg ott Ws ^
tive than the alternatives of ^ be never shed a tear to
counseling, conference and de- two-and a-half hours to the |
tention. emergency room.”
NOT AN ALTERNATIVE Wahrmund suggested that I
Martin said that obviously the portion of the policy advis-
was not a suitable fog teachers to use alternate
alternative at the elementary methods of discipline might
level, and "maybe there has to need to be re-emphasized,
he a certain amount of fear" -go far we have avoided I
teachers' "orders are to be permanently disabling some-
carried out.” one,” Wahrmund said, “but we
Mrs. Juanita Porter, math would never live it down if|
teacher at Baytown Junior ^ did."
School, told the board she had wahrmund also said be was I
administered physical punish- concerned about reports of
ment throughout her teaching punishment being administered
career, and that she thought a, certain junior schools for
failure to achieve” as well as
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A Stradivarius In
A Divorce Court?
The black-robed lawyers were
gone end the sordid details of
adultery, desertion and other
pangs of failing marriages gave
way to the sounds of Haydn and
Handel.
The courthouse corridor is a
rehearsal hall for London’s Civil
Service Orchestra, probably the
only amateur group in the world
with four owners of Stradivarius
violins in the string section.
We don’t bring our Stradi-
variuses along regularly,” said
Jack Morrison, 68-year-old first
violinist. “They are for virtuoso
playing, and they are too valu-
abie
“l brought mine because i
just got it and I wanted to show
it to the others."
Morrison, chairman of
bank, joined the Stradivarius
owners- there are only about
500 of the instruments in the
world-last month by bidding
22,000 pounds i*52,800) at an
auction for a golden-brown mod-
el made in 1708. it was the high-
est price ever paid for a violin
and more than double the pre-
vious record of 10,500 pounds
(*25,200i for a Strad.
Morrison doesn’t seem to find
the presence of a quartet of
Strads surprising in an orches-
composed mainly of civil
servants, bankers and business-
men.
"Lots of business people enjoy
music," te observed in a soft,
Scotch accent.
The other rare instruments in
the group belong to business ex-
ecutive Maurice Leigh and two
professional violinists,
iuHil 1801 N PRUETT IN BAYTOWN
ard.
Most other musicians in the
orchestra come from such un-
likely places as the Customs
and Excise Department or the
Vest Office.
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MASERU, Lesotho (AP) - j|
The leader of the opposition!
Congress Party, Nntsu Mok |
hehle, says independence fora
Lesotho—formerly Basutoland |
-has failed since foreigners oc-|
cupy key posts in the civil serv- i
ice while others “act as spies.”!
Mokheble told an election |
Simon nieetinfl that the neonle exnert. I
Kuhn and Miss Penelope How- ed keysets wouWte filleTby
local officials after the British
left and secondment of South Al
rictn judges to Lesotho courts
a negation of the country’s
independence. Lesotho is land-
locked within South Africa.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 153, Ed. 1 Friday, December 20, 1968, newspaper, December 20, 1968; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044102/m1/3/: accessed May 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.