august 18, 2010 12:34am

Republicans using "Black Cultural Ignorance" to Commit...

Sanctioned and Lawless “Hate Crimes” on Minority American School Children:

Learn more and how to help at our Message Board. UPDATES ARE PLACED THERE REGULARLY. Please check for important needed actions at this juncture of the campaign for protecting our, regarded as “bottom-end meaningless” American children. God is the only judge of ones value and He calls ALL children "the greatest" (Matthew 18:1-6).

If you want to make a difference for our "sanctioned" and "lawlessly" abused “American school children,” please go to: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/.

Please note: Today is Day 125 since NY Rep. Carolyn McCarthy held a US congressional hearing in Wash. on American “school corporal punishment” disclosing the widespread and numerous cases of abuse and fatalities occurring in American schools. Rep. McCarthy introduced a bill for banning all American school abuse on June 29, 2010. That too has been ignored by every Republican.

The Hitting Stops Here! will be holding campaign-rallies regularly in front of the Hawaii State Capitol Bldg. urging Republican Congressman Charles Djou to sign Rep. McCarthy’s bill. We will also rally outside of his office atl: 300 Ala Moana Blvd., Room 4-104.

Friday, August 20, 2010 is the two year anniversary of Ms. Alice Farmers ACLU: Human Rights Watch investigative report entitled, A Violent Education (review at: http://www.thehittingstopshere.com/docs/ACLU_2009.pdf). This report was delivered to every US Congressional leader by the US Government Accountability Office Forensic Investigator Mr. Gregory Kutz. (The mission of the Government Accountability Office is to hold the government “accountable.”)

On that day, The Hitting Stops Here! will be outside of the Hawaii State Capitol Bldg. giving out literature, tee-shirts and urging Hawaiian residents to display their “Aloha” to mainland American school children. We are asking residents of the state of Hawaii to:

• Consider signing the petition for having a ban placed on the hubristic practice (see Domination Lust: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/index.php?pg=2) of beating US school children and all other forms of American “school corporal punishment.”
• Have as many of their internet social contacts do the same.
• Learn how to help: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/index.php?pg=1
• Join The Hitting Stops Here! at the “Capitol.” Find out dates and times under the heading of, INFORMATION: Hawaii State Capitol Bldg. Campaign Rally at: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/index.php?pg=1.


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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august 16, 2010 10:09pm

News report: US STATE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION ARNE DUNCAN: “AMERICAN SCHOOL BULLYING NOW A TOP ‘FEDERAL’ PRIORITY”

(Responses by The Hitting Stops Here! in [ ]).



Day one of national summit on “bullying” provides “tips to schools,” “dispels common myths.”
[The Hitting Stops Here! would like to see the original transcript; too little information is dispelled in this news report on these two subtopics.]

By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor Featured SAFE, Safety & Security, Top News, eClassroom News, Copyright: Doktory, Aug 11, 2010

Duncan says, “School staff need to set the right example,” calling attention to one of education's fastest growing problems. State Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, on August 11, 2010, spoke at the nation’s first "Bullying Prevention Summit" to incite a call to action, as well as invite Government Officials, Behavioral Experts, and Education Organizations to brainstorm scalable solutions to “bullying” in classrooms nationwide. [The Hitting Stops Here! has professional information to offer regarding proven and effective solutions to “American school bullying,” having more than thirty years experience and skill.]

This is the first real collaboration between government “agencies” to help combat the growing issue of bullying, said Duncan. [Great!!! Which government agencies?]

Why these “agencies” haven't come together before today is a good question! [It is a good question.]

We're hoping this summit will be the first step in creating a sustained effort against “bullying” in our American schools. The two-day summit, being held at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., is intended to help School Leaders and Government Officials pool their knowledge on “bullying” and then turn this knowledge into “plans-for-action.” [The Hitting Stops Here! offers professional coaching for leaders and child-caregivers in “steps-to-ending” a variety of American school maladies. We specialize in “bullying.”]

In his opening speech, Duncan said that bullying is not a fad, but rather a problem that, if left unattended, will escalate. [Good one! Yes!]

According to the federal Education Department (ED) [Created in 1867; more commonly known today as the Dept. of Education and Labor--which is presently chaired by California Congressman George Miller.] in 2007 one in three students in Middle School or High School reported being bullied. [We can only shake our heads in sadness; what a large number of American school children unnecessarily “missing out” on the joy and fun of education and the “wonderment of childhood.”]

Nearly 3 million teens said they were physically abused by their peers, and 1 million teens reported their property stolen or damaged by bullies. [What did the ones beaten by their teachers, principals, school bus drivers and the like say? What did the ones handcuffed, tazered, locked in dark closets and killed say? If you are unable to find any such student interviews, I can give you a copy of my list: info@thehittingstopshere.com.]

People say the phrase, “gateway drugs.” Well, I see bullying as “gateway behavior” that later in a student's life can lead to high school dropout, drugs, and criminal behavior, Duncan said. [This is true, Mr. Duncan.]

Along with physical abuse and bullying in the school, students are now also reporting an increase in “cyber-bullying” and “bullying” through “sexting,” he added. [Let's first deal with the “physical bullying” from which “cyber-bullying” and “sexting” stem.
“Well-reared” and nurtured children are busy being “learners” and on their way to becoming leaders and community “contributors.” American school abused children are on their way to life at the “low-end” of their future communities. Science has found that “protected” children live six times longer than children left behind “unprotected.”]

Our inability as adults to stop “bullying” in Chicago schools [To which adults do you refer here?.] is a failure that haunts me, Secretary Arne Duncan said. [But the beautiful thing is this, Mr. Duncan. As US State Secretary of Education, you can, once and for all, stop “bullying,” that is occurring in Chicago, New York, Madison County, Mississippi and all other school districts in the US and throughout our territories from your more powerful Washington DC office.]

One of the “biggest steps” we're taking at the department [Which department? Who is in charge? By when?] is to identify research on what works best to combat “bullying” and helping to support those tactics and programs. [There is enough “combat” going on. Let’s avoid that. The Hitting Stops Here! has “solution-oriented” Coaches standing by, ready to train leaders and child-caregivers in accessing state-of-the-art information and education on “already identified” research of proven effective models of child-training. We can start immediately--please avoid delay.]

What the experts are saying. Dr. Philip Rodkin, an associate professor of child development in the Departments of Education Psychology and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, spoke at the summit and shared some insight on the issue.

According to Rodkin, many people believe that “bullying” is just an act of aggression, but it's important to understand that aggression and bullying are two different beasts. Aggression is more of a “personality trait” where bullying is a “learned-action trait” [What is Rodkin saying? One child is born like that? And the other goes through a learning process? Maybe that is why a recently published book praised by major media and celebrities says, on pp. 184-186, that “Black children must be beaten to make them behave but not white children.” Maybe the ones “born like that” are minorities; maybe that is why they are beaten in greater disproportionate numbers in our American schools (see, STATE ACTORS BEATING CHILDREN: A CALL FOR JUDICIAL RELIEF: http://www.thehittingstopshere.com/docs/State%20Actors%20UC%20Dav.pdf).

Nevertheless, putting out the major fire, “American school corporal punishment,” which provokes an “aggressor” and a “bully” into becoming harmful to self and others, is first priority.

Educators set the initial poor example when they beat our American school children or mistreat them in any way.] usually resulting from an unstable home-environment [Imagine being beaten at home and receiving the same maltreatment at school from those whom you’re told to respect and obey; while those, to whom you are forced to “pledge your allegiance,” coldly turn their backs on you as if your pain and your world means nothing.] or from having experienced bullying by another, explained Rodkin. [In American schools, every 20 seconds “another” can mean federal-tax paid principals, teachers, coaches, school bus drivers, cafeteria workers, superintendents, judges, teacher aides, and the like: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/newsroom/2010/a5_5.php ]

Bullying is about social capital, not just physical power it's a relationship of control, he added. [See, Domination Lust: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/index.php?pg=2]

According to Rodkin, many schools aren't actively combating “bullying” because teachers already have enough on their plates. [Please be specific. What is “on their plates” that prevents them from appropriately responding to the safety needs of the children in their care which is top “priority” among professionals?]

Schools need to ask every student, "Are you being bullied?" and if so, by whom? [What is your plan for following through on this great idea? Children are welcome to report their “bullying” conflict to The Hitting Stops Here! We will respond to their safety needs. [Please see: Matthew 18: 1-6.]

They really need to formally and objectively know the social dynamic of their school, yet, so often, administrators and teachers don't take the time to know, because they either consider the problem to be outside the school's jurisdiction [How could that be?] or have more pressing concerns, like standardized testing. [How sad. Just sad. But it is possible for educators to prioritize professionally, when they have in mind the best interests of the children in their care.]

Excuses like kids will be kids, or this is not an education issue, or oh, it was just a bad joke, are not acceptable, said Duncan. [Good.]

The culture of “bullying” has been shrouded in myth and misunderstanding for far too long. [This is true; far too long!] By asking students about their peer social ecology, Rodkin said, schools and parents will begin to answer important questions, such as, "Who is accountable when one child is being abused by another? [“Accountability” is a great discussion for later. Bringing our American school children into safety is the discussion at hand. Please see our petition to President Obama and US Congressional Leaders: http://www.change.org/petitions/view/we_the_people_support_ny_rep_mccarthys_bill_
for_banning_american_school_corporal_punishment.

In the meantime, we can begin training teachers on how to reverse “bullying” or prevent it from beginning in their schools. Answers are within reach.]

Are we modeling positive values and moral behavior around children? [Is this question for “Paddlers” only?]

Schools need to cultivate an environment of trust and accountability for their students, said Arne Duncan. Victims of “bullying” are “tattletales.” [Please clarify what you mean by: Victims of “bullying” are "tattletales?] They're being responsible. [Oh! “Tattletales" are "responsible American school children” wanting their friends and themselves to be safe and who seek support for having safety from their educators. Can we consider a different title for these children--something that indicates “responsible” behavior with honorable intentions?]

We, as adults, must also present consistent and sustained model behavior for children. [That is true, Mr. Duncan. It must be hard for educators to demonstrate “model behavior” and beat their students at the same time.]

Rodkin said another issue that parents need to monitor is “cyber-bullying.” [Again, a stem of “physical bullying.”] “Aggression is a contagious behavior [“Paddlers”, “Duct tapers,” “Shovers”… take note!] that operates through social networks, both in school and outside of school,” he said. [Good information. The focus of the hour, however, is the blazing fire that is ravishing our American school children. Putting it out as swiftly as possible is the need of the hour.

Up-to-date articles on the high frequency of American school abuse are contained on the following links:
http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/newsroom/2010/a4_26.php http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/newsroom/2010/a5_5.php]

Please listen to, CNN news report on American “school corporal punishment” damage control: Get the facts, on “America Speaks” radio at: www.BlogTalkRadio.com/Paula-Flowe.

Informative messages and how to help: http://www.thehittingstopshereurstory.com/messageboard/.

Thank you.

The Hitting Stops Here!
A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere.
Supported by Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education,
Advisors, American SAFEPASS: Student Alliance For Education in Peaceful American SchoolS
"Rearing 'INTACT' children coaching team”
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
info@thehittingstopshere.com
408.509.6835

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august 11, 2010 03:35am

Status of the "Ending American School Corporal Punishment Act" HR 5628

US: Bill HR 5628: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-5628

The "Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act" - was introduced to Congress on June 29, 2010 and referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. It requires 25 VOTES to move it on to the next stage.

As of July 27, 2010, it had only 21 VOTES.

A Congressional hearing on the issue of widespread abuse and fatalities occurring in US schools was held on April 15, 2010.

Today is the 119 DAY in America since our US Congressional Leaders were "OFFICIALLY" informed of the unsafe conditions of our American schools.

Please write your Congressional Leaders requesting that they support Rep. McCarthy's bill for having safe schools throughout the US and its territories.

You may do so by signing the petition to Congressional Leaders for a ban from each of the 50 states, linked to the Home page of: www.TheHittingStopsHere.com.

Please go to the Message Board for informative messages and to learn how to help 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

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august 09, 2010 03:03pm

Message to American School Children

You have the right to refuse a beating. Your body belongs to YOU!

Spanking is sexual. The only people paid to spank someone on their buttocks are porn-stars, prostitutes and school teachers.

The Constitution has pulled a "disappearance act" in US schools--your 14th amendment "equal protection" and "due process" rights in particular--yet the Constitution was written to protect Americans in every square inch of this great land, INCLUDING THOSE COVERED BY US SCHOOLS.

This information might explain why if your parents "beat on you" the way your teachers do, your parents will go to jail, while your teachers remain free to collect their pay checks and abuse more US citizens as long as they are classified as "American school children." The US Constitution is in full force in your home.

Although, The Hitting Stops Here! sees "home" or "in-school suspension" as poor alternatives to a beating, we suggest you choose these options until your school catches up with 21st century models of discipline--models that build students up and teach them WISDOM through their "mistakes."

Know this:

The top scoring schools in the US are "nonpaddling" schools.

The lowest scoring schools in the US are "paddling" schools.

Governing officials in Bangladesh are protecting the children within their jurisdiction from "school corporal punishment." On July 19, 2010, the practice of beating school children was banned (more information below).

AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN, WE WILL NOT ABANDON YOU. HELP IS ON THE WAY!

The Hitting Stops Here!
A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere.

www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
info@thehittingstopshere.com

Supported by Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (www.nospank.net)
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9 August 2010 Bangladesh bans corporal punishment in all schools
By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News, Dhaka

The education ministry said corporal punishment damaged students development

The Bangladeshi government has banned corporal punishment in all educational institutions across the country. The directive came weeks after the High Court had ordered the government to take steps to stop corporal punishment in primary and secondary schools.

The government's order covers all schools, including madrassas.

Beatings are widespread in Bangladeshi schools, even though human rights groups have been campaigning against them for years.

In its latest directive, the education ministry banned what it described as inhumane and merciless punishment given to students in schools.

Corporal punishment damaged the development of students, it said.

Their addendum says (paraphrased): Adults caught harming a child in any way will be required to undergo a mental evaluation.

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august 06, 2010 02:59pm

It’s “Back-to-School Terrorism” for American Boys and Girls: Week 1’s Casualties

American school boys and girls are already facing
Paddles, handcuffs, ropes, dark rooms and the like.

To learn more, please listen to America Speaks Radio, "Back-to-US School Terrorism," Sunday evening, August 8 at 9pm EST.

America Speaks: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/paula-flowe

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july 30, 2010 01:42am

INFORMATION: Hawaii State Capitol Bldg. Campaign-rally (Regular rally time-updates will be posted here. See below.*)

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.

Monday, August 2, 2010, a 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/)

*NEXT HAWAII STATE CAPITOL BUILDING RALLY, Beretania St.: Please check back for our upcoming dates for campaigning outside of the Hawaii State Capitol Bldg. and Mr. Charles Djou's Ala Moana Blvd. office.

Please listen to, "Mr. Charles Djou, What ' you gonna do?" on Public School Spanking 101: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/jestin

Please listen to our America Speaks Radio Show entitled, "10 Tattletales Tell Their Stories: Dedication To US Secretary of Ed. Arne Duncan," in our archives from Saturday, August 28, 2010, 10pm EDT at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/paula-flowe.



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Please join us in our work to end "sanctioned and lawless" forms of harmful school "discipline."

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's 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 27, 2010 04:08pm

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 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 21, 2010 03:59pm

“Harm For American School Children Desired by Republicans…” and 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

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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NAACP RESPONSE: Unresponsive to date.

We will post their response here the VERY SAME DAY that we hear from them. Please check back.

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