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Me Me MElisabeth Sunkin ED215 September 15, 2003 Professor Riley Court Case Analysis - Final Draft Just twenty- six years ago a junior high school student by the name of James Ingraham received a severe beating by his principal, Willie J. Wright, and two assistant principals, Lemmie Deliford and Solomon Barnes, as they held him down. It seems unbelievable that this could have happened in the year of nineteen seventy seven. Wasn't our society mature by then? Doesn't it seem morally and ethically wrong to do this, even then? Apparently not, for when this case was brought in front of the Supreme Court on April nineteenth, the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment did "not apply to corporal punishment, nor does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." This kind of treatment in schools dates back to practices used to punish slaves. Not only is it hazardous to the students well-being, but it terrorizes the fellow students and disrupts the learning atmosphere of the classroom. Do students want to behave based on moral and ethical values or by fear and abuse? James Ingraham lived in Dade County, Florida where it was a common treatment to paddle students for bad behaivor based on Florida legislation and a local School Board Regulation. Explicit directions and limitations on regualtions of the punishment were supposively enforced but as one will learn from the reading, not practiced. The flat wooden paddle had to measure less than two feet long, three to four inches in width, and one half inch thick. A student was limited to one to five "licks" and there had to be no apparent physical injury. Last, teachers had to consult the principal prior to the "licking." These rules and regualtions seem set up to be abused.
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