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        Anyone in my generation knows 
what happened to corporeal punishment in 
the schools following World War II, and 
especially so following the infamous 
"Civil Rights Acts," which took away the 
rights of parents and children to any 
kind of quality education.

        Anyone in my generation was 
raised in the public school system in 
the 1920's and 30's.  We knew what the 
major problems were and didn't need to 
be told, even though they have been 
documented and have appeared in print.  
The major problems were: short cutting 
in the lunch lines, running in the 
hallways, chewing gum, loitering, and 
too much talk in the classroom.  
Following the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, 
where the schools were converted into 
veritable jungles, the problems became 
drugs, rape, assault, murder, and 
bombing.  Many schools have installed 
security checks to keep guns out of the 
schools where the kids have been forced 
to defend themselves against the 
Democratic senators and Federal judges 
who passed the Civil Rights Act.  These 
"Pablum Pukes" (as Morton Downey Jr. 
calls them) profess to have "bleeding 
hearts" about the poor little black 
children that have no "quality 
education."  Under the guise of doing 
good--all kingdom-builders are bloody 
killers, and do-gooders at the same 
time--they forced the children together 
in a jungle environment where murder, 
rape, arson, robbery, assault, and 
bombing are the "contemporary 
lifestyles" of the great new "Pepsi 
generation."  Of course with this, there 
had to be the complete abandonment of 
corporeal punishment.  Punishment came 
under the heading of what was called 
"child abuse" by the Pablum Pukes, and 
what it meant was, anybody could back 
them up if they were the right color.

        Now, we read in a Montgomery 
Advertiser, Sunday, September 25, 1988, 
that area school officials "defend the 
need to paddle unruly pupils."  Imagine 
that after thirty years of Dukakis-
Kennedy-garbage dumpster-do-goodism that 
has turned the Federal schools system 
into a nightmare!  Speaking up for the 
punishment of the unruly student were a 
number of concerned parents and laymen.  
But speaking against corporeal 
punishment was good ole "Reverend" 
Willie Smith, a member of "Concerned 
Parents of Montgomery Schools."  (Willie 
Smith is a black Baptist minister, like 
Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King 
Jr.)  In order to keep crime at the 
maximum rate in the schools, Willie 
Smith says, "A person can take a stick 
and beat his dog, and they will arrest 
him for cruelty to an animal, but a 
teacher can hit a child with a stick and 
they call it corporeal punishment."  The 
black minister said he feels that 
corporeal punishment should be replaced 
with in-house suspensions, work details, 
and counseling sessions.  Out of school, 
of course, you give the "unruly pupil" 
time in the "slammer" because the 
"unruly pupils" Willie Smith is 
referring to are students that carry 
sharpened pencils and screwdrivers and 
knives to extort lunch money from 
students in the bathroom and beat up 
students in the hallway who won't let 
them cheat off their examination notes.  
Out in the world this is called "assault 
and battery."

        For complete abolishment of any 
kind of whipping, spanking, or paddling 
is Dr. Guy Renfro, a Montgomery clinical 
psychologist of the same "ilk and kin" 
as the Pablum Pukes who got rid of 
capital punishment for murder.  Dr. 
Renfro said, "I think corporeal 
punishment as a form of discipline in 
the school should be abolished.  In 
terms of research that I examined, it is 
not as effective as positive 
reinforcement.  It can harm students 
physically and emotionally," he said, 
"and can lead to more behavior problems 
later on because of the anger over the 
punishment."  Dr. Renfro said, "It is 
important that we teach students how to 
solve problems and how to coper with 
them.  Teachers should reinforce 
positive behavior."

        And how is this done?

        Dr. Renfro hasn't got the 
foggiest idea how it is done.

        How could it be done in the 
schools system when the Justice 
Department backs up the murderers and 
robbers and rapists?  It can't be done!  
How do you "reinforce" positive behavior 
in an African jungle culture where 
positive behavior is cheating, stealing, 
and lying?  Dr. Renfro doesn't say.  
They never do.  They can't.  They are 
the world's greatest mutes that ever 
lived.





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