Results tagged “paddling”

• Police have yet to make any arrests in connection with Friday night's drive-by shooting at Dunbar High.
• To Paddle or Not To Paddle. That is the question according to this Trib examination of the still-surviving art of the school-time swat.
• Two snowmobilers died last night after their snowmobiles fell through the ice at Sylvan Lake in northern Indiana.

A fifth school has been added to the growing investigation of corporal punishment used against students (mostly athletes) in Chicago Public Schools. Harlan High (9652 S. Michigan) is the most recent school to be involved in the investigation after accusations surfaced of a football coach paddling players. Harlan joins Morgan Park, Marshall, Phillips and Simeon as local schools that have been investigated this year for allegations. Corporal punishment has been illegal in Chicago Public Schools since 1994. Several Chicagoist staff members can remember being paddled in their younger days, and frankly, given how the kids these days are behaving, we can't say a paddling will really do any damage. If nothing else, the threat of embarrassment could be enough to keep the kids in line.