Catholic school is the last to ban corporal punishment
A Catholic school in New Orleans has banned corporal punishment, making it the last educational institute in the US to do so. But the move has not been universally welcomed.
- Bruce Nolan
- United States
- January 9, 2012
A Catholic high school that was the country’s last refuge of corporal punishment has ended a legal struggle over control of the school and agreed that the days of paddling are over.
“There will be no attempt to reinstate corporal punishment,” said Dan Davillier, a board member of St. Augustine High School who helped fashion the out-of-court settlement on Dec. 23 with the Josephites, the Roman Catholic order that founded the school 60 years ago.
“It hasn’t been at the school for the last year and a half. We want St. Aug to maintain its track record for strict discipline. I’m confident that we can maintain that high level without paddling.”
Whether to paddle or not — and who would decide the question — became the issue that roiled the school for most of 2011. The Josephites, with the emphatic support of New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond, wanted it stopped.
But a broad coalition of parents, alumni and local board members, led by former school president Rev. John Raphael, wanted it continued as a key ingredient in the school’s character-building tool kit.
Full Story: Catholic school officially ends paddling
Source: Washington Post
“There will be no attempt to reinstate corporal punishment,” said Dan Davillier, a board member of St. Augustine High School who helped fashion the out-of-court settlement on Dec. 23 with the Josephites, the Roman Catholic order that founded the school 60 years ago.
“It hasn’t been at the school for the last year and a half. We want St. Aug to maintain its track record for strict discipline. I’m confident that we can maintain that high level without paddling.”
Whether to paddle or not — and who would decide the question — became the issue that roiled the school for most of 2011. The Josephites, with the emphatic support of New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond, wanted it stopped.
But a broad coalition of parents, alumni and local board members, led by former school president Rev. John Raphael, wanted it continued as a key ingredient in the school’s character-building tool kit.
Full Story: Catholic school officially ends paddling
Source: Washington Post
