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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1974 THE RIO GRANDE HERALD PAGE 7
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FHANCE8 ELAINE MCGUFFIN. ROBERT CHARLES ROOB IV
WED - The wedding of Miss Frances Elaine McGuffin and Robert
Charles Roos IV took place at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 22.
Reverend Fitzgerald, O.M.J., officiated at Our Lady of Refuge
Church at Roma, Texas. Parents of the couple are Mr and Mrs.
Duard B. McGuffin and Mr and Mrs. Robert Charles Roos II, all of
Rio Grande City Honor attendants were Mrs. Carolyn Lopez and
Duard B. McGuffin. Jr of Rio Grande City. After a wedding trip to
Las Vegas, Nevada, and Fort Worth. Texas, the couple will live at
the Roos Ranch near Roff, Oklahoma.
School...
what's it all
about.
by ROLANDO GONZALEZ
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This week's topic is a bit
controversial and 1 feel rather
odd writing about it since there
are so many people who will
disagree. The topic is corporal
punishment in the schools, or to
be more down to earth in
language, spanning students.
Corporal punishment does not
work, according to
psychologists, researchers, and
some longtime practitioners of
the use of the Board of
Education "where it counts".
Consider the following
questions: Why does corporal
punishment have to be used
over and over if it is supposed to
work so well? And why is it that
it is the same students who have
to be paddled time after time?
Why is it that the same students
who get spanked continue
showing up in the principal's
office if the "licks" are sup^
posed to work so well on them?
Nobody will improve his
behavior by being beaten up
Maybe spanking works for the
poor timid guy who never really
gets in trouble, but for the
"tough guys" spanking is a
mark of pride and rebellion
against the establishment. Most
of them walk out of the spaking
room feeling like heroes
It is my sincere belief, based
on both observations and
research, that, if a child's
behavior is so extreme that
teachers can no do anything for
him. then it is not the school
which should deal with that
student. Most teachers were
trained to teach, to instruct, to
inspire students. They were not
trained to be prison guards, or
slave masters (although there
are some teachers who do act
that way). This sort of
rebellious student should be
referred to his parents, or even
to social institutions of
correction, after a genuine
attempt has been made to
counsel with him.
Morris Bigge and Maurice P
Hunt, two psychologists,
presented a report on the
matter of spanking. They
concluded: "Through reward,
behavior may be stamped in:
but the converse that through
punishment it can be stamped
out • does not hold."
In other words, a crack on the
wrist of a classroom giggler
won't establish that the child
will begin to become more
serious. A "licking" will
prevent behavior for a short
while, but 10 to 1 that child will
be back for more
There also seems to be strong
evidence that corporal punish-
ment may result in behavior
opposite of what is wanted
Instead of making children
more cooperative with school
regulations, paddling is likely to
increase both their hostility
toward school authority and the
behavioral problem which
reflects this hostility.
One can read almost any case
study of juvenile delinquents
and it would reveal that the
typical delinquent has had
frequent and severe corporal
punishment.
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Trejo, Raul. Rio Grande Herald (Rio Grande City, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 7, 1974, newspaper, February 7, 1974; Rio Grande City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth194445/m1/7/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rio Grande City Public Library.