Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1913 — WHIPPING IN THE SCHOOLS. [ARTICLE]

WHIPPING IN THE SCHOOLS.

Almost ran a unit the teachers favor the netetroductlon of th* rod. They say | that compulsory education laws make It Impossible to expel wayward pupils; that one had boy may prevent an entire class from ■taking isroper progress; that the very life /of the teacher is dragged •Ut by /the strain of maintaining discipline among pupils who know that the} final argument of force cannot be, used; (that by exaggerated huuMUi/ltarlanism we are rearing up a race» of irrepressible hoodlums to feed the ranks Ojf crime. It is said also that, rule or\ no rule, whipping is sometimes remitted to as an absolute.' necessity. The. opponents lof physical punishment hold thar .it is impossible to compare theUsugeteducatlonal machine of our paiblfb-echool system with the primdttve (district school, where the big bon almost as a matter of honor tried |to throw each new teacher out of the school-house, thrash them soundly, and where no one afterward hag bo red; malice. They say—lt la easy for the outsider to criticise—that at Teal teacher dees not need to botbier much with discipline, and that iolvlUsatld(n has advanced beyond Che appeal to brute force. Both parties /to the controversy are right Perhaps in ruling out oorppral pantehmeat the School Board has pushed too olbee to th* ldeat/lorpgrtlng? that lnfifttdual beys do not hoop pace with' advancing elvlllsMtkm. Its general areintroduetlon would be asetep backward, A mean course may' be fotykf4that will recognise emaugendes and\autbor-