Corporal punishment is permitted at your school. It is a district goal to not paddle any students in the first nine weeks. After about 7 weeks, some students you write up come back complaining about getting “burned” or just admit that their “tail hurts.” Their discipline forms indicate that indeed, they are getting paddled.
There is no intermediate step like detention between parent contacts (which are largely ineffective anyway) and write-ups, so you continue to write up students and they continue to get paddled. The administration, though careful to not make it overt, subtly indicate that they would prefer if you “handled classroom discipline” yourself. There are practical and perhaps moral problems with you paddling, but you have witnessed a few and feel comfortable that you know what to do.
A student throws a book across the room at another child. If you write it up, the friction with your administration increases. And the kid still gets paddled. If you do it yourself, you cross a moral line, perhaps. What do you do?
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