The deciding factor in the future of corporal punishment is seen in the Ingraham v. Wright Supreme Court case. In 1970, James Ingraham, an eighth grade student of Drew Junior High School was one of the many beneficiaries of corporal punishment distributed by Willie Wright, the principal of the high school. The rationality behind Ingraham’s punishment was that he was slow to respond to his teacher instructions. As a result, his teacher sent him to the principal office where he bent over the table
and parenting. The bible being a proponent... ... middle of paper ... ...ern no trend towards the elimination of corporal punishment by making it so costly (Hyman and Wise, 1979, p. 184). After a losing battle Ingraham faced, both in the U.S. and State Supreme Court, Principal Wright and his colleagues around the country were able to continue in practicing physical discipline, even with the new added uncertainty surrounding it. This case increased the awareness of corporal punishment in Florida
Summary In Stephen Fry’s Moab Is My Washpot, Fry share is his opinion on what corporal punishment means to him and how it shaped his person as well as his thoughts on how the infliction of corporal punishment has changed as the years have passed. Fry confesses that while he sometimes believes corporal punishment is adequate, he also believes that to modern generations it has as much importance to them as a toy. To Fry, the more scarring memories of pain are those that include solute and doldrums
1-37. The authors of this manuscript explain the current state and federal policies pertaining to corporal punishment in the United States. They address the Ingraham decision of 1977 and go further into how it affects state policy. The authors state some common causes for why corporal punishment is administered and give statistics related to methods, tools, and the standard pupil disciplined. Elizabeth Thompson
The Articles of Confederation 1776 brought a declaration of and a war for independence to Britain’s North American colonies. While they had all acted in concert to reach this decision, their memories of colonial life under the centralized British monarchy had lasting effect upon their views of what the federal government of their new republic would have the power to do. In the years following the Declaration of Independence, Congress came up with the Articles of Confederation