If you take a look at what our schools are turning out, the idea doesn't seem half bad.

"How dare you try to read a real science book from a university! Assume the homo-erotic position and prepare to recieve your just punishment!"

As someone who has spent a bit of time teaching in Los Angeles area public schools, this is one I can get behind. But I believe that "Corporal Punishment" is too dated a term. If the Kansas School Board is going to bring this practice back, I want it to be renamed "Government Sponsored Ass Whippings." And I am prepared to defend the assertion that corporal punishment is not only proper, it is constitutional. The Federal Constitution specifically charges the federal government with providing "for the common defence." It is my position that few things aside from a well-timed butt kicking are better calculated to save the citizenry from financial expense, criminal behavior, and all the other costs that emanate from deviant adults who were not properly raised during their formative years. My only concerns as to the actions the Kansas School Board may take in so far as this issue is concerned are: 1. The negligent or absentee parents will not be required to endure a similar beating before their child receives it 2. The corporal punishment described in any statute that may be passed in Kansas will not be of a properly severe nature Let me be more specific as to my above-listed second concern: If the child who has received the corporal punishment is able to walk home under his own power immediately after it has been inflicted, the government has not done its job. Let me be clear. I do not advocate corporal punishment for a kid having an off day, a bad week or even a trying month. However, if an instructor of teenagers gets to the end of the semester and observes that his classroom of 35 students has learned a fraction of what he could have taught because of the callous, self-absorbed, thoroughly inconsiderate actions of one or two of his charges who are on the fast-track to the criminal justice system, corporal punishment is appropriate. Of our nation's problematic, unproductive and burdensome, Hillary Clinton says "Provide them with universal health care." To which I respond "No, provide them with a reason to need it."