"We take discipline very seriously"

A charter school in Georgia sent consent forms to parents to inform them of a corporal punishment that would allow the school to paddle the students.

Jody Boulineau, director of the Georgian School of Innovation and Classics (GSCI), told WRDW Thursday that the charter school in Hephzibah, Georgia, was considering bringing back the paddle as an option to discipline his students.

"In this school, we take discipline very seriously," said Boulineau. "There was a time when corporal punishment was the norm at school and you did not have the problems that you have."

Boating is a punishment when someone is hit with a wooden paddle. Boulineau told the news station that if a student were to be disciplined, the parents would receive a "paddle consent form" that would give administrators permission to hit their child with the paddle. She told WRDW that it was "one more tool that we can use in our disciplinary toolbox".

The Georgia School for Innovation and Classics in Hephzibah, Georgia. The charter school announced Thursday a new body policy that would allow administrators to paddle students. GSIC Homepage / Screenshot

"There is no obligation, it is not mandatory.A parent can either give consent for us to use this as a disciplinary measure, or refuse consent," said Boulineau at the news station. .

The form, which was obtained by WRDW, said: "A student will be taken to an office in camera.The student will put his hands on his knees or his furniture and will be hit on the buttocks with a paddle."

If parents choose not to involve their child in the punishment, the student could be suspended for five days, WRDW said. GSCI is the only school in the Hephzibah area to have chosen to discipline students by paddling.

Newsweek contacted Boulineau for more comments on the policy, but did not have time to return for publication.

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According to the National Institute of Health, there are currently 19 schools in the United States where it is legal to use corporal punishment.

Some students were picked up in punishment in a school district in Greenbrier, Arkansas, after participating in National March Day in March, Arkansas counts reported. School students in the White Hall School District were punished for breaking the school rules and had the option of hanging or paddling for two days. The walkout was intended to honor the 17 people who were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., And call on politicians to end gun violence in schools.

Ramage in colleges and universities has also been reported. In February, a sorority from the University of Pittsburgh was suspended after 12 women alleged to be Alpha Kappa Alpha's promises told the police that a person would have used paddles to beat them twice in an out-of-home campus.