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March 07, 2005

More Fun with Corporal Punishment

This school right outside of Chicago has the whole corporal-punishment-thingy wrong.

A 6-year-old boy who often talked too much in class was suspended from 1st grade at Schaumburg Christian School last week after his mother refused to spank him.

Chandler Scott Fallaw, a rambunctious boy, had been piling up disciplinary notes for talking, chewing gum, bringing toys to class and not finishing classwork, said his mother, Michelle Fallaw-Gabrielson. "By no means is my child perfect," she acknowledged.

But she never anticipated the ultimatum delivered at school Wednesday.

When she arrived to pick up Chandler, she said, assistant administrator Linda Moreau told her the school needed assurances that the boy would be disciplined. "She said, `Either he gets a spanking before he leaves today, or I'm suspending him,'" Fallaw-Gabrielson recalled.


Don't they understand?? It's so much more effective to be disciplined by the cute junior assistant principal than by your parents. Everyone knows that!

helmet tip to Jesus' General commenter, cinnamondog