TEMPLE, Texas (AP) _ One central Texas school district has brought back the paddle as a way to restore respect and discipline in the classroom.
Although most U.S. school districts have banned corporeal punishment, Texas doesn’t seem to believe in sparing the rod.
Nearly one-fourth of the estimated 225,000 students spanked in schools in 2006 were from Texas, according to the latest available figures.
But Temple is unusual in that after banning the practice, the school district revived it last May at the request of parents who were nostalgic for the orderly schools of yesteryear.
Temple’s school board president Steve Wright says there weren’t any consequences for kids without paddling.
The change in student behavior in Temple schools has been dramatic, parents say.