{"id":6193,"date":"2006-03-13T06:11:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2006-03-13T06:11:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T11:11:23","slug":"letter-of-the-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6193","title":{"rendered":"LETTER OF THE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Carlotta:<\/p>\n

Demand an end to abuse in schools
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\nLast month a Durham woman used a belt to discipline her children, and she left marks on her 3-year-old. After a day-care worker reported this to authorities, the woman was charged with three counts of felony child abuse and jailed under a $90,000 bond.<\/p>\n

In contrast, a Robeson County teacher struck a child five times with a wooden plank with holes drilled in it, and the child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s buttocks were covered in bruises. This teacher is still teaching.<\/p>\n

Colin Armstrong, the superintendent, said that a list of offenses that could lead to the use of corporal punishment was given to principals, and that could minimize the liability of hitting children.<\/p>\n

If a mother posts a list of reasons that she will belt her child, and the child breaks a rule, does that justify child abuse?<\/p>\n

When a child is hit and bruised by an adult wielding a belt, a paddle, a tree limb or a fist, it is child abuse. It is child abuse in the living rooms of our homes, and it is child abuse in the halls of our schools.<\/p>\n

It is time for parents to demand an end to school-sanctioned child abuse in North Carolina schools.<\/p>\n

To see the types of injuries that I am referring to, or for contact information to help with ending the abuse, go to www.nospank.net\/bancp-nc.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pictures speak 1,000 words, I am limited to 250.<\/p>\n

Peggy Dean
\nBoard of Directors, Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education
\nWaxhaw <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Carlotta: Demand an end to abuse in schools Last month a Durham woman used a belt to discipline her children, and she left marks on her 3-year-old. After a day-care worker reported this to authorities, the woman was charged with three counts of felony child abuse and jailed under a $90,000 bond. In contrast, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}