in line. and teachers agree, they need more alternatives to control students. just ask the teacher who just now recovered from that torn cartilage, she got a torn cartilage in her knee courtesy of a second grader s shoe. we have students that don t take teachers seriously, they re sent referrals to the office and sent back and it s like a jek to them. the psychology of it, the threat of licks, i think that s what s so effective. > well, the dallas morning news reports discipline problems have surged since paddling has been removed. here s a case of a movie scene maybe being too realistic. in new york in nassau county, a race to a screens store where people were waving gun, waving guns as part of a scene in a movie being filmed. someone should have told the cops who made an unexpected cameo, not realizing the situation wasn t real.