july 27, 2010 04:08pm

“Harm For American School Children Desired by Republicans…”/ NAACP Response

Harm For American School Children Desired by Republicans, According to News Reports
Bill aims to end corporal punishment at schools
Bill would include religious schools that accept any federal funds at all. Several people involved with religious schools said corporal punishment is seldom used nowadays, so such a bill shouldn't be a problem.

BY MAGGIE HYDE Oklahoman Published: July 17, 2010

WASHINGTON — A proposed bill aims to end teacher-administered spanking, making corporal punishment illegal in any school — including private religious ones — that receives federal funding.


Religious school groups, usually quick to guard against government encroachment, have few worries about the bill because officials said many abandoned hitting as a punishment years ago.

"Whether you believe it's right or wrong, it's just too big of a liability or legal issue,” said Tom Cathey, a legislative analyst for the Association of Christian Schools International, an umbrella group for private Christian schools.

"We recommend that our schools not use corporal punishment.”

Introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., the bill would ban schools from practicing any corporal penalties "as a form of punishment” or "for the purpose of modifying undesirable behavior.”

The bill would cover public schools and any private schools that receive federal money for free lunch programs or bus rides for their poorer students. The bill has 18 co-sponsors, all Democrats.

Read entire article at: http://newsok.com/bill-aims-to-end-corporal-punishment-at-schools/article/3476818)

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Find out what Republicans want for our American school children:

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, March 5, 2010:
http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/newsroom/2010/a3_5.php


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June 26, 2010

Dear NAACP National Leader Julian Bond,
US school beatings is still sanctioned in 20 US states and its territories. Primary targets are "colored" boys and girls and even “colored” men and women, as US Government paid educators are sanctioned to beat students of 18 years and older (see p. 3 of UC Davis Law Review, STATE ACTORS BEATING CHILDREN: A CALL FOR JUDICIAL RELIEF: http://thehittingstopshere.com/docs/State%20Actors%20UC%20Dav.pdf).
Below is a speech written to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, delivered at the Hawaii branch “Juneteenth” event on June 19, 2010.
At the event, The Hitting Stops Here! implored the NAACP to support the bill for banning US school beatings by learning more and by signing the petition at www.TheHittingStopsHere.com. The bill is currently being prepared by NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.
As “Mission” leader of the NAACP, please consider the following statistics and the high position of your office for making the difference that “colored” American school children need at this very hour:
• The number one target for US school beatings: Black American boys.
• The number two target for US school beatings: Black American girls.
• Following the top two targets for US school beatings: Latinos, Native Americans, children of low-income families and children with special needs.
• Availability of statistics on white and Black American male educators spanking Black American girls: Hundreds of thousands each school year.
• Availability of statistics of Black American male educators spanking White American girls: 0.
• Like our enslaved maternal ancestors, Black American pregnant girls are beaten up to eight months pregnant, by their “authorities.”
• Children’s Defense Leader, Marian Edelman Wright, gave these statistics at a January 2009 Inaugural event in Maryland: Violence targeted at our black and brown children is their pipeline to prison…1-in-3 black American boys will end up in prison (see recorded speech: http://www.youtube.com/user/paulaflowe#p/u/13/7gXKIALkVt0).
• Nonpaddling schools have the nation’s highest test scores.
• Paddling schools have the nation’s lowest test scores
Although President Obama advised the Black American Community through the NAACP celebration event of June 16, 2009 to "whup" their children and their neighbor's children too (http://www.youtube.com/user/paulaflowe#p/u/13/7gXKIALkVt0 ), we request that you choose, instead, to protect our "colored" children from this scientifically proven form of "pain-based behavior management."
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Paula Flowe, Exec. Director
The Hitting Stops Here!
A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere.
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
paulaflowe@thehittingstopshere.com
408.509.6835
Supported by Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE)
Advisor, American SAFEPASS (Student Alliance For Education in Peaceful American SchoolS)



The Mission Statement of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People:
To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.
Vision Statement
The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.
Objectives
The following statement of objectives is found on the first page of the NAACP Constitution - the principal objectives of the Association shall be:
• To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens
• To achieve equality of rights and eliminate race prejudice among the citizens of the United States
• To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes
• To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights
• To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination
• To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP's Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.
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NAACP “Juneteenth” Event Speech Presentation, delivered by
The Hitting Stops Here!, June 19, 2010


My name is Paula Flowe. I would like to first of all thank Alfonso Braggs, leader of the NAACP Hawaii Chapter and Rubina Collier for this opportunity to speak.

With today being Juneteenth, a time of acknowledgement for our history as a Black people in America, I felt it most appropriate to talk about the very objects that make a person a slave and which perpetuated slavery--the whip and the paddle. The paddle still rules today primarily in “slave states” within predominantly Black American school districts in the US and its territories.

The Hitting Stops Here! is a non-profit national organization for having US school beatings banned, also known as “school corporal punishment.” I am founder and the Executive Director.

Here are related statistics:

• Primary targets of school beatings: Black American boys and girls, Latinos, Native Americans and children having autism and other cognitive and physical special needs.
• More than 2000 school beatings are reported daily—reporting is not mandatory.
• According to a recent report, every 20 seconds an American school child is beaten; every 4 minutes one is beaten severely enough to need medical treatment: (source: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/newsroom/2010/a5_5.php)
• We are unable to find statistics on American school teachers beating Asian students, Middle-East Indian students or wealthy upper–class white students.
• Although black American girls are spanked by the thousands by white and black male teachers, we are unable to find a single statistic on a black male teacher spanking a white American girl.

Imagine compulsory education being something you thought was designed for your good but, in fact, is harmful to your growth and development in every way. Imagine being obligated by law to attend a place where its leaders sanction harmful practices on those dependent on them--ways proven by science to have every type of deleterious effect.

On April 15, 2010, a US Congressional hearing on the topic of American “school corporal punishment” was presented (review at: www.TheHittingStopsHere.com).
What makes this hearing so important is that leaders empowered to end US school abuse have been informed before the American people and their own peers of the widespread cases of US school abuse, some of which has led to fatalities

I spoke to a US school governing official in Wash DC early this year and I said to him, “You know that the primary children being beaten in our schools are black boys,” and he said, “Yes.” “And that the primary beaters are white male teachers,” I continued, and he said, “Yes.” I asked him, “If the primary targets were little white girls and the primary beaters were black male teachers, would school beatings still be sanctioned in our American schools?” And he said, “Of course not. Most certainly not! Of course not!” I said to him, “Then this is all racism.” And he replied, “Well, we have to go through the right channels and doors…” But, the cat had already been let out of the bag.

Why would any responsible person knowingly allow a practice to continue once proven by science to be harmful? If targeted at the child of an American leader it would place that educator on “National Security” radar. But when targeted at Leroy Smith in Texas, who’s already getting it at home from his alcoholic grandma, no one cares because Leroy is at the bottom of the American caste system.

At this present time, NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is writing a bill for having American “school corporal punishment” banned nationwide and throughout our US territories. This bill will be presented to Congress within the next few weeks.

American school children in the 20 paddling states and US territories are the only US citizens still in need of action for gaining their 14th amendment “equal protection” right against US school beatings--a right their peers in the other 30 US states have and take for granted.

Until such time, our “paddling” schools continue to be safe havens for US Government-paid educators to indulge in their sadistic tendencies, spanking fetishes and racism when punishing American school children. Proven by science, such punishment can produce:

• Chronic adult depression
• Anger
• Fits of rage
• Substance abuse
• Dysfunctional relationships
• Inability to internalize moral values

Please go to our website, TheHittingStopsHere.com, and sign the petition for having a nationwide ban placed on all US “school corporal punishment.” You will be given the opportunity to email your personal contacts inviting them to do the same once you submit your signature. Please help us spread the word!

Material on effective nonviolent discipline can be found at: www.PositiveDiscipline.org.

Please also visit our Message Board. See: “Be Informed!: What We Want Americans To Know.” Questions you may have will likely be answered there. Please listen to our informative America Speaks and Public School Spanking 101 Blog Talk Radio, linked to our Home page.

The Bible says that true religion is this: “Protect the children and the widows.” Why? Because, to do so takes a heart wanting what is best for the “dependent” and “needy” rather than solely for oneself.

In Matthew 18: 1-6, Jesus calls little children “the greatest” in God’s Kingdom. Imagine remaining silent or inactive about the practice of scientifically proven harmful forms of punishment being committed against those whom God calls “the greatest.”

Prior to slavery, the black race celebrated birth, death, life, love, community by beating the drum. When we were forced from Africa--our culture and land--the drum was taken from us. We no longer were allowed to beat the drum. We, ourselves, instead were beaten.

We ask the NAACP to take a stand for “advancing colored people” and that they oppose laws in favor of beating any “skin” other than that which is found on a drum.

We ask that NAACP members nationwide support a ban on US school beatings by:
• learning more at: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/
• signing the petition for banning US school corporal punishment at: www.TheHittingStopsHere.com

Let us say together in one accord, The Hitting Stops Here! Right here! Right now!

Thank you.




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“Domination Lust”

Hubris Defined:
Hubris (also hybris) means extreme haughtiness or arrogance. Hubris often indicates being out of touch with reality and overestimating one’s own competence or capabilities, especially for people in positions of power.

Hubris appears in the terms “act of hubris,” and hubristic.”

In ancient Greece, hubris (ancient Greek) referred to actions that shamed and humiliated the victim for the pleasure or gratification of the abuser. The term had a strong sexual connotation, and the shame reflected on the perpetrator as well. It was most evident in the public and private actions of the powerful and rich.

The word was also used to describe actions of those who challenged the gods or their laws, especially in Greek tragedy, resulting in the protagonist’s down fall.

Hubris, though not specifically defined, was a legal term and was considered a crime in classical Athens. It was also considered the greatest crime of the ancient Greek world. The category of acts constituting hubris for the ancient Greeks apparently broadened from the original specific reference to mutilation of a corpse, or a humiliation of a defeated foe, or irreverent “outrageous treatment” in general. It often resulted in fatal retribution or Nemesis. Ate, ancient Greek for “ruin, folly, delusion,” is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his/her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his/her death or downfall.

Violations of the law against hubris included what might today be termed assault and batter; sex crimes; or the theft of public or sacred property. Two well-known cases are found in the speeches of Demosthenes, a prominent statesman and orator in ancient Greece. These two examples occurred when first, Midias punched Demosthenes in the face in the theater (Against Midias), and second when (in Against Conon) a defendant allegedly assaulted a man and crowed over the victim.

Perhaps one of the most vivid examples of hubris in ancient Greek literature is demonstrated by Achilles and his treatment of Hector’s corpse in Homer’s Iliad. Achilles killed Hector in revenge. Not only did he kill him, but he stripped Hector’s corpse and dragged it around behind his chariot, threading leather thongs through Hector’s ankles. Although the Greek forces were appalled by his treatment of this other hero’s corpse, he was unrelenting.

Priam, king of Troy, had to come and kneel at Achilles’s feet and offer him Hector’s weight in gold before he could convince him to give up the body. Once the body was gone, Achilles had time to ponder the fact that it was prophesied his own death would come soon after Hector’s.

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july 26, 2010 08:43pm

INFORMATION: Hawaii State Capitol Bldg. Campaign-rally

Friday, July 30, 2010 is “End American School Corporal Punishment” Day. A Campaign-rally will be held at the Hawaii State Capitol Bldg (Beretania St.), 2pm -7pm.

Mon, August 2, 2010, a nonstop campaign-rally begins at the same location until “terms” for ending this campaign have been met (please see: “Terms For Ending Campaign For Having American School Corporal Punishment Banned Throughout The US and Its Territories”: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/)

Important facts:

• Every 20 seconds during US school hours an American school child is beaten by an educator or other “school authority figure.”
• Every 4 minutes an American school child is beaten severely enough to require medical treatment.
• Primary targets: minorities, children from poor homes, and children with special needs
• A bill for ending American “school corporal punishment” in public, private and charter schools throughout the US and its territories, was introduced to Congress on June 29, 2010 by NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.
• All Democrat Congressional Leaders have signed this bill.
• All Republicans have failed to sign this bill.
• There must be a minimum of one Republican vote for a US bill to become a law.
• If the Republicans fail to cast a single vote for having McCarthy’s bill pass, the bill can die; its expiration date is only months away.
• If the bill dies the opportunity to reintroduce it will be a year away.
• More than 1.5 million cases of American school abuse occur each school year (reporting is optional, so it is difficult to know the true “higher” number).
• This statistic will only increase if the bill dies due to the gross display of indifference by US lawmakers toward the April 15, 2010 Congressional hearings that disclosed widespread and numerous cases of American school abuse, some leading to fatalities (view Congressional hearings: www.TheHittingStopsHere.com, Home page).
• Having 10,000 signatures on the petition for supporting Rep McCarthy’s bill is a way that US citizens can support having this bill passed, located at: www.TheHittingStopsHere.com.

Objectives of July/August Hawaii State Capitol Bldg. Campaign-rally:

• To support having Rep. McCarthy’s bill, “Ending American School Corporal Punishment Act” 5628, made into a law by:
 calling on US citizens of all ages to support gaining 10,000 signatures for the petition for having an immediate ban placed on American “school corporal punishment” on the Home page of www.TheHittingStopsHere.com

 seeking the support of a single Republican for having safe American schools

• To assure that the safety and well-being needs of American school children are met as specified in: “Terms for Ending Campaign for Having American School Corporal Punishment Banned Throughout the US and Its Territories” (http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/).

Please Join us with sign holding.
Suggestions for signs:
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SUPPORT HR BILL 5628
FOR ENDING SCHOOL
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
LEARN MORE AT:
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com

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End US School
Beatings!
Sign Petition at:
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com

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MCCARTHY’S BILL FOR
SAFE SCHOOLS
CAN DIE

ONE Repub. VOTE REQUIRED
For BILL SUCCESS

www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
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To participate in interviews and entertainment, contact Paula Flowe, Exec. Director of The Hitting Stops Here!: info@thehittingstopshere.com; 808.721.9966, 408.509.6835

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july 23, 2010 01:40am

More than 108 nations prohibit school beatings: US excluded

Among the more than 108 nations that prohibit school beatings are:

Afghanistan, Angola, Austria*,Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica*, Croatia, Denmark*, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Finland*, Germany*, Greece*, Hungary*, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel*, Italy*, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Nepal*, Netherlands*, New Zealand*, Norway, Poland*, Portugal*, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Spain*, Sweden*, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine*, United Kingdom , Uruguay*, Venezuela*

*prohibited in homes as well

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Several nations where school beatings are sanctioned:

Bahamas, Barbados, Botswana, Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Mozambique, Republic of North Korea, Rwanda, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, United States of America*, Western Sahara, Zimbabwe

*The USA stands alone among democratic nations in sanctioning school beatings in the entire Western hemisphere. The only democratic nation to sanction this practice in the Eastern hemisphere is Somalia and they are presently moving toward a ban.

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july 22, 2010 04:53pm

Please email/post the following message to your social contacts and to the “developing” list that follows:

Useable SAMPLE LETTER:

Dear

A bill for banning widespread abuse including school beatings in American schools was introduced to Congress on June 29, 2010 by NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, entitled, “Ending American School Corporal Punishment Act,” HR 5628.

The bill has the potential to die if American citizens and US Republicans remain “unresponsive” to the urgent call to action for protecting American school children from “sanctioned” and “lawless” corporal punishment, some of which has led to fatalities (see: “Harm For American School Children Desired by Republicans, According to News Reports": http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/).

PRIMARY TARGETS FOR THIS ABUSE ARE MINORITIES AND CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.

Please sign the petition for supporting Rep. McCarthy’s bill located on the Home page of www.TheHittingStopsHere.com and ask your social communities and co-group or organization members to do the same.

Informative messages and information on how to help can be found on the following link: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/.

We appreciate your sending/posting this letter to your contacts.

Thank you,

(Optional: Your name/email address)
Supporter of The Hitting Stops Here!
A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere.
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
info@thehittingstopshere.com


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I Specific Groups/Leaders:

Positive Discipline: posdis@positivediscipline.com, contact@positivediscipline.com; Twitter: http://twitter.com/PDTweets; 800.456.7770; PO Box 1926, Orem, Utah, 84059

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), National Leader Julian Bond: washingtonbureau@naacpnet.org; Twitter: http://twitter.com/naacpwebcast; fax nos.: 410.486.9255, 202.463.2953, 859.985.3556

First Lady Michelle Obama: email webpage: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact ; Twitter: http://twitter.com/michellenews, Twitter: http://twitter.com/thehill/, ofc: 202.456.1414, fax: 202.456.2461: 1600 Pennsylvania Av NW, Wash DC, 20500

Jesse Jackson: jmitchell@rainbowpush.org; ofc: 773.373.3366; fax: 773.373.3571

National Parent Teacher Association (PTA): info@pta.org; Twitter: http://pta.org/2127.asp?sms_ss=twitter via @addthis

American Psychological Association: Twitter: http://twitter.com/APAGradStudents, Twitter; (800) 374-2721; ofc: (202) 336-5500; 750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242

American Psychiatric Association: apa@psych.org; Twitter: http://twitter.com/APAPsychiatric

National Education Association: email webpage: http://www.nea.org/home/827.htm ); Twitter: www.twitter.com/neamedia; ofc: 202.833.4000; fax: 202.833.4000; 1201 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036-3290

The National Association of Social Workers: media@naswdc.org; Twitter: http://bit.ly/agDGmJ via @addthis; 750 First Street NE, Suite 700, Wash DC, 20002-4241

International Federation of Social Workers: email webpage: http://www.ifsw.org/en/contact; Twitter: http://twitter.com/IFSW

American Academy of Pediatrics: email webpage: http://www.aap.org/guestbook/contactus-form.cfm; 141 Northwest Point Boulevard, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1098; ofc: 847.434.4000; fax: 847.434.8000

National Catholic Educational Association: email webpage: http://www.ncea.org/contact/contactus.asp; ofc: 800.711.6232; fax: 703.243.0025; 1005 North Glebe Road Ste. 525, Arlington, VA 22201

Association of Christian Schools International: 719.528.6906

Association of Child Abuse Lawyers: email: info@childabuselawyers.com

The Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA): email webpage: http://www.girlscouts.org/contact/email.asp; Twitter: http://twitter.com/girlscouts

Boy Scouts of America: email webpage: http://twitter.com/boyscouts

Youth Speaks Hawaii: travist@hawaii.edu

Human Rights Watch: email webpage: http://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us; Twitter: http://twitter.com/hrw

President Obama: email webpage: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact; Twitter: http://twitter.com/BarackObama; fax: 202.456.2461; 1600 Pennsylvania Av NW, Wash DC, 20500

State Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: arne.duncan@ed.gov; Twitter: http://twitter.com/arneduncan; ofc: 202.401.2981, 202.401.3000; fax: 202.260.7867

Dept. of Education and Labor Chairman George Miller: george.miller@mail.house.gov; Twitter: http://twitter.com/askgeorge; Wash DC ofc: 202.225.2095, fax: 202.225.5609; CA ofc: 925.602.1880, fax: 925.674.0983

Dept. of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Deputy Assistant Kevin Jennings, kevin.jennings@ed.gov, 202.245.7830

Deputy of Dept. of Education, Tony Miller, 202.401.9965

Head of Safe Schools Office, Fran Walter: 202.205.9198, fran.walter@ed.gov

Denzel Washington, The Great America.org/denzel

Bill Cosby: service@billcosby.com; Twitter: http://twitter.com/BillCosby

Larry King Live: http://twitter.com/kingsthings


II Types of Groups:

Human rights

Children-friendly

Colleges and Universities: Depts. related to developmental needs of children

Celebrities known for their contributions to the well-being of children

Key Political “Twitters” on Capitol Hill: http://thehill.com/blogs/twitter-room

All forms of media

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july 22, 2010 02:35pm

Harm For American School Children Desired by Republicans, According to News Reports

Bill aims to end corporal punishment at schools
Bill would include religious schools that accept any federal funds at all. Several people involved with religious schools said corporal punishment is seldom used nowadays, so such a bill shouldn't be a problem.

BY MAGGIE HYDE Oklahoman Published: July 17, 2010

WASHINGTON — A proposed bill aims to end teacher-administered spanking, making corporal punishment illegal in any school — including private religious ones — that receives federal funding.


Religious school groups, usually quick to guard against government encroachment, have few worries about the bill because officials said many abandoned hitting as a punishment years ago.

"Whether you believe it's right or wrong, it's just too big of a liability or legal issue,” said Tom Cathey, a legislative analyst for the Association of Christian Schools International, an umbrella group for private Christian schools.

"We recommend that our schools not use corporal punishment.”

Introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., the bill would ban schools from practicing any corporal penalties "as a form of punishment” or "for the purpose of modifying undesirable behavior.”

The bill would cover public schools and any private schools that receive federal money for free lunch programs or bus rides for their poorer students. The bill has 18 co-sponsors, all Democrats.

Read entire article at: http://newsok.com/bill-aims-to-end-corporal-punishment-at-schools/article/3476818)

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Report on what Republicans want for our American school children:

Most House Republicans Vote to Let Schoolchildren Be Held Down, Tied Up, and Put in Solitary Confinement

by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, March 5, 2010:
http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/newsroom/2010/a3_5.php

Posted By: Paula Flowe

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july 21, 2010 03:59pm

Terms For Ending Campaign For Having American School Corporal Punishment Banned Throughout The US and Its Territories

To: President Barack Obama And ALL US Congressional Leaders

From: The Hitting Stops Here! And Other Child Advocacy Groups, Organizations and Concerned Citizens

Re: Terms for Ending Our Present Campaign For Having American School Corporal Punishment Banned Throughout The US And Its Territories
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• An immediate ban or moratorium shall be placed on the use of corporal punishment in all public, private, and charter schools throughout the US and its territories.

• US schools must place form letters in student files indicating that students and their immediate caregivers have been informed of and understand the newly instated American school corporal punishment laws. These form letters are to be signed by students and their immediate caregivers.

• Contact information for accessing support from a US Government office in the event that students’ rights to the“Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act," HR 5628 law are violated shall be provided for students and their immediate caregivers throughout the US and it territories.

• US Governors shall be held accountable for having their State Superintendent, School District Superintendents, school employees, parents and students informed of and in compliance with the “Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act, “HR 5628 law immediately .

• Immediate educator training in proven effective positive discipline models will be required of all US educators.

• An “American school investigative project,” will be initiated for the purpose of meeting the special needs of students who have been harmed by school corporal punishment prior to the passing of the “Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act” HR 5628 law.

At the April 15, 2010, Corporal Punishment in Schools and its Effects on Academic Success hearing, all US Congressional Leaders were “officially” informed of the widespread use of harmful and violent discipline models by educators in American schools.

A bill to end all sanctioned and lawless American school abuse was introduced to Congress on June 29, 2010 by NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.

The traditional start of fall semester 2010 is Monday, August 2. There is sufficient time for our US School Governing Officials to provide our American school children with legal protection from sanctioned and lawless models of harmful school discipline (see letter to President Barack Obama: http://thehittingstopshere.com/docs/Obama_Urgent_Msg_April_26_2010.pdf).

A campaign for having the above terms set in place is scheduled to begin if advocates for safe nurturing schools find that US School Governing Officials have failed to protect American school children from school abuse by the start of the traditional first day of school year 2010.

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july 18, 2010 04:03pm

Press Release (Please send to local and national media.)

Dear Supporters Of Safe American Schools,

Please help us with contacting local and national media. We want to hold informative interviews and announce “End American School Corporation Punishment” Day, July 30, 2010.

Thank you.

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Useable SAMPLE LETTER:


Dear (Printed News Media),

Please publish the press release below from The Hitting Stops Here!, a national organization for having American "school corporal punishment" banned.

Dear (Aired/Newspaper Interview Media),

After reviewing the press release below, please consider holding an interview with The Hitting Stops Here!, a national organization for having American "school corporal punishment" banned.

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Press release:

“End American School Corporal Punishment” Day is Friday, July 30, 2010. The Hitting Stops Here!, an organization for having “school corporal punishment” banned, along with other concerned citizens, will rally that day outside of the Hawaii State Capitol Bldg. (Beretania St.), 2pm-7pm.

Beginning Monday, August 2, traditional first day of fall semester 2010, The Hitting Stops Here! and supporters will begin a nonstop rally at the same location until “terms” for ending this campaign have been met (see “Terms for Ending Campaign…” at: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/).

Thank you!

The Hitting Stops Here!
A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere.
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
info@thehittingstopshere.com
408.509.6835


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"Developing" list of media contacts:

USA Today: letters@usatoday.com

N Y Times: letters@nytimes.com

George Reiter: george_reiter@yahoo.com

Tawn Holstra: tholstra@aol.com

Asadah Kirkland: events@iseecolor.com

SJCC Radio: kjcc104fm@yahoo.com

Olelo TV: windward@olelo.org

President and Publisher of the Star Advertiser: dfrancis@staradvertiser.com

Vice-President Editor of The Star Advertiser: fbridgewater@staradvertiser.com

Managing Editor of The Star Advertiser: News:elynch@staradvertiser.com

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july 11, 2010 04:21pm

Please Support Our Work

July 10, 2010



Dear Supporters of Safe American Schools,

Friday, July 30, is “End American School Corporal Punishment Day.” We request international support.

On that day, The Hitting Stops Here! will be holding a campaign-rally at the Hawaii State Capitol Rotunda from 2pm-7pm (guidelines for participating will be posted on our Message Board (http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/index.php)soon.

We request that people everywhere who care rally with signs that day for having safe nurturing schools throughout the US and its territories. Suggested locations are state capitol buildings, local courthouses and shopping centers.

If interested in doing volunteer work, you may go to this link: http://www.thehittingstopshere.com/volunteer_form.php

PLEASE CIRCULATE AND POST THIS MESSAGE. You can also help greatly by learning more. Please read the following important memos located on our Message Board (http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/index.php):

• Missing on the 4th of July 2010
• Terms for Ending Our Present Campaign For Having American School Corporal Punishment Banned Throughout The US And Its Territories

If necessary, for the safety of our American school children, a nonstop campaign-rally outside of the Hawaii State Capitol Building will begin on Monday morning, August 2, 2010, the traditional first day of fall semester school year 2010.

Help us close the door on "sanctioned and lawless" American school abuse once and for all. The world is hurt everywhere when hatred is accepted anywhere.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Paula Flowe, Exec. Director
Tony Brian, Asst. Exec. Director
The Hitting Stops Here!
A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere.
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
info@thehittingstopshere.com
408.509.6835
Jestin Samson, Chairman, American SAFEPASS: Student Alliance For Education in Peaceful American SchoolS
Supported by Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (nospank.net)

Posted By: Paula Flowe

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july 10, 2010 05:42am

Titles of upcoming fall 2010 programs by The Hitting Stops Here!

Titles of upcoming fall 2010 programs by The Hitting Stops Here!To be aired on:
America Speaks Blog Talk Radio
Public School Spanking 101 Blog Talk Radio
American SAFEPASS on Olelo Community Television
(Dates to be posted soon)

We' About To Have Some Church Up IN HERE!
Hawaii State Capitol Rally, July 30, 2010
Guidelines for Participating in the:
“End American School Corporal Punishment” Campaign Fall 2010
August 2, 2010: Traditional start of Fall 2010
Please Sign the Petition
First Lady Michelle Obama: You are a Mother, An Educator, A Woman
Message to President Obama: They're Beat'n Us Like They Did 200 Years Ago

Message to National NAACP Leader Julian Bond:
Advancing Colored People
Paddling is a Hate Crime: Look at the Statistics
Hawaii, “Mainland Children Need Your Aloha!”
The Hitting Stops Here!
The Paddle is the Enemy of the Poor

The Superintendant and the Tampon Theory
St. Augustine


Starting School on a Positive Discipline Note: The First 30 Days
The Delicate Consciousness of a Child
Will all Paid School Bullys Please Step Forward

Spare the Rod Spoil the Child: Saying or Scripture?
Hudibras
Welcome to the Islands
The Mississippi TakeOff
Madison Central High School, Madison, MS

The National Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
The American Psychological Association (APA)
Every 20 Seconds…Every 4 Minutes
Jordan Riak and NoSpank.net
The Message Board

Those Damn Yankees
Little Black Boys
Children with Special Needs
The Autistic Society

What the Experts Say
American SAFEPASS:
Student Alliance For Education in Peaceful American SchoolS
Making It Through American Schools Safely
The Fun Starts Here!: Fun, Respectful Child-rearing

The Drum
North Carolina Times Six
Tampons, Fetuses and the Paddle
April 15, 2010 Congressional Hearings
June 29, 2010 Introduction of McCarthy’s Bill 5628 for
Ending American School Corporal Punishment

Story Hour
Learn How Child State Protective Laws Failed Michael Jackson
A School Authority’s Way of Stopping A Boy From Becoming Gay
Primary Targets of American School Beatings
Protected Children Live Six Times Longer

NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy’s 21-page bill, HR 5628
Babies and Toddlers in Paddling States
How the First 30 States Were Banned
Why the 20 States Have Not Banned
How US Congressional Leaders Can Set a Good Example

Black Celebrities
Raped and Returned to School Before Dismissal Bell
POPS: Protecting Our Precious Sisters
Beating “Struggling” Children
Paddling Causes Chronic Hemorrhoids
A Red Butt. So What.

While Our Children Continue To Be Mistreated
Influential People
Who is the Greatest?
Why Educators Harm Children
American Schools: A Safe Haven for Sadistic Indulgences
and Fetishism, A Message from Jordan Riak, PTAVE
Regretful Parents: What They Don’t Know

Mindful Parenting
Happy Hour
If We Fail to Ban: What’s Ahead
Are You a “Child-Beater at Heart?”: Take the Quiz
The Girl With the High-Heel Bruises



Man in the Mirror: A Tribute to Michael Jackson’s Life, featuring He’s Bad!
Intact Children: Making it to Adulthood in One Peace
Famous Childhood-Beaten Dictators
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas and Wyoming:
Why they hold out

Our Inner Wisdom as Parents and Educators
Public School Spanking 101
America Speaks Radio, where America gets to speak: Be Our Guest!
Leaving No Teacher Behind

Full Immunity Teacher Laws: The “No Intent to Cause Harm” Gambit
Hit Johnny: That’s Legal. Hit Johnny’s Dog…you’re going to jail!
American School Sex Objects
Five Special Cases of American School Abuse

Saving Childhood
Your Tax-Dollars At Work
The Madison Central High School “Bad Room”
Restraints and Seclusions: “ Handcuffs and Duct Tape and Straps, Oh My!
Earning Your High School GED Through The Hitting Stops Here! Education
True Religion Is This

Run Until You Drop
If the Primary Targets Were Little White Blonde Girls…

Terminating Empowerment: How Does That Work For You?
Volunteering
Be Informed!

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july 07, 2010 02:53pm

Missing on the 4th of July 2010 // Terms for Ending Campaign

July 5, 2010


Letter To The Editor:

Missing on the 4th of July 2010 was “freedom” for the last group of US citizens who are being denied their full US citizen rights in America, though they are full US citizens. When these citizens are in a place called “American School,” adults called “educators” are sanctioned to beat them in public, private and charter schools in 20 US states its territories.

Every 20 seconds during a school day, an American school child is beaten by an educator. Every 4 minutes one is beaten severely enough to require medical treatment.

NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy held a Congressional hearing on April 15, 2010 disclosing widespread abuse throughout the US and its territories, some leading to fatalities. Since then, thousands more of such incidents have occurred in our American schools and are continuing through summer school 2010.

The Hitting Stops Here!, along with other children’s rights advocates and concerned citizens will be holding a campaign-rally at the Hawaii State Capitol Rotunda beginning Friday, July 30, 2010, 2pm. This campaign will continue until specific terms have been met by US School Governing Officials for the safety and nurturing needs of American school children (see: “Terms For Ending Hawaii State Capitol Campaign 2010” linked to our petition at, www.TheHittingStopsHere.com).

Having more than a half-million visits to www.TheHittingStopsHere.com in less than two and a half years indicates the high-level of interest that Americans have for this topic.

The door for sanctioned and lawless American school corporal punishment is closing. Our petition for banning this practice throughout the US and its territories needs the signature of every caring American citizen: www.TheHittingStopsHere.com.

Developing human beings thrive when they feel safe, cared for and protected.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Paula Flowe, Exec. Director
Tony Brian, Asst. Exec. Director
Jestin Samson, Chairman American SAFEPASS
The Hitting Stops Here!
A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere.
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
info@thehittingstopshere.com
408.509.6835
Supported by Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education
Advisors, American SAFEPASS: Student Alliance For Education in Peaceful American SchoolS


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Terms For Ending Campaign For Having American School Corporal Punishment Banned Throughout The US and Its Territories
___________________________________________________________________________

To: President Barack Obama And ALL US Congressional Leaders

From: The Hitting Stops Here! And Other Child Advocacy Groups, Organizations and Concerned Citizens

Re: Terms for Ending Our Present Campaign For Having American School Corporal Punishment Banned Throughout The US And Its Territories
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• An immediate ban or moratorium shall be placed on the use of corporal punishment in all public, private, and charter schools throughout the US and its territories.

• US schools must place form letters in student files indicating that students and their immediate caregivers have been informed of and understand the newly instated American school corporal punishment laws. These form letters are to be signed by students and their immediate caregivers.

• Contact information for accessing support from a US Government office in the event that students’ rights to the“Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act," HR 5628 law are violated shall be provided for students and their immediate caregivers throughout the US and it territories.

• US Governors shall be held accountable for having their State Superintendent, School District Superintendents, school employees, parents and students informed of and in compliance with the “Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act, “HR 5628 law immediately .

• Immediate educator training in proven effective positive discipline models will be required of all US educators.

• An “American school investigative project,” will be initiated for the purpose of meeting the special needs of students who have been harmed by school corporal punishment prior to the passing of the “Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act” HR 5628 law.

At the April 15, 2010, Corporal Punishment in Schools and its Effects on Academic Success hearing, all US Congressional Leaders were “officially” informed of the widespread use of harmful and violent discipline models by educators in American schools.

A bill to end all sanctioned and lawless American school abuse was introduced to Congress on June 29, 2010 by NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.

The traditional start of fall semester 2010 is Monday, August 2. There is sufficient time for our US School Governing Officials to provide our American school children with legal protection from sanctioned and lawless models of harmful school discipline (see letter to President Barack Obama: http://thehittingstopshere.com/docs/Obama_Urgent_Msg_April_26_2010.pdf).

A campaign for having the above terms set in place is scheduled to begin if advocates for safe nurturing schools find that US School Governing Officials have failed to protect American school children from school abuse by the start of the traditional first day of school year 2010.

Posted By: Paula Flowe

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