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| Here is another problem that does not occur with every paddling, but is extremely harmful when it does occur and is, I suspect, much more common than we might suppose. I, in fact, personally know a man who suffered in silence from a crippling paddle blow. He still suffers decades later. The one man I have interviewed about recent paddling likewise knew personally of a case, just a few years ago, where a swing from the paddle resulted in a back injury to one of his classmates. This one caused the high school athlete to take a year off sports, and to suffer afterwards as well. He is probably suffering still, perhaps in extreme life harming ways, from that school-sponsored legal child abuse. He very likely will be unable to sue for damages in “teacher protection act” Texas, since the “holy paddle” is what injured him, no matter how severe, life harming, or life-shortening the recklessly inflicted injuries were. There are similar cases in the news. | | Back problems, like psychiatric, are not open and obvious for our inspection, and thus are often not taken seriously. Yet both can be crippling just as sure as a broken bone can be—and in fact, in most cases, are much more so. Every nerve to your body essentially passes through your spine. Any injuries can cause pressure and loss of function in other seeming unrelated parts of the anatomy. There are dangers from a direct hit to the spine, as well as subtler but life long dangers from “whiplash” and compression injuries. | | An irate mom whose child has a spinal injury and a Doctor’s specific instructions that he is not to be paddled recently wrote a letter to some anti-paddling groups. The Tennessee school her son attended brazenly paddled him with reckless disregard for her wishes, the doctor’s orders, and the child’s precarious medical condition. They know for a fact that, like a perverted child-abusing version of James Bond’s “license to kill,” they have a “license to commit child abuse,” even if they cripple or kill. The only “requirement” for state blanket immunity in many states, whether they have an overt “Teacher Protection Act” or similar policies buried in other policies and laws, is that each individual district devise “some rule” and “try to follow that.” If a district has no rules that is ok too. Then they can’t possibly violate anything. The state will give some level of blind but complete protection to them. Schools are free to abuse, injure, or even kill, as long as they follow their own “local” (or “loco” as the case may be) district policy—which is, again, whatever they want it to be. If the boy becomes crippled or paralyzed he will be very unlikely to receive a damage award from any court for lifetime health lost or earnings abilities ruined, or the inability to sexually function for his entire life, or whatever other damages result from spinal injuries. | |
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