Oklahoma Republicans Vote to Let Teachers Hit Kids With Disabilities

Thursday, March 16, 2023

Oklahoma lawmakers on Tuesday failed to pass a state House of Representatives bill that would prohibit corporal punishment against school students with disabilities.

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After the bill was rejected, The Recount media company shared several clips on Twitter from the Oklahoma House's debate over the measure. A video that garnered more than 150 comments and over 300 retweets was of State Representative Jim Olsen, a Republican, quoting the Bible as he rejected the bill.

"The rod and reproof give wisdom. But a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame," Olsen said, quoting from the Book of Proverbs.

#1 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-16 08:42 AM | Reply

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

Thomas Paine

#2 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2023-03-16 06:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

If they legalized hitting the disabled in Texas somebody would have knocked out George W bush.

#3 | Posted by Tor at 2023-03-16 11:51 PM | Reply

... as others cited the Bible as justification ...

Because God liked Abel's animal sacrifice more than Cain's vegetables, Cain kills his brother Abel in a fit of religious jealousy.
- The Book of Genesis 4:8

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2023-03-17 12:16 AM | Reply

"People were bringing little children to Jesus for him to place his hands on them, but the disciples rebuked them.

When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it." And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them."

.
Which is basically the difference between the OT, where there were no Christians, and the NT where there were.

Rwingers, of course, prefer the former.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2023-03-17 12:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

"Every beast is driven to pasture by blows:"

#6 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-17 06:55 AM | Reply

What horrible despicable human beings. Rotten bastard's

#7 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2023-03-17 06:59 AM | Reply

Republicans hate those citizens with disabilities. The Republican idea to sunset laws every 5 years means they want to vote, again, on the Americans with Disabilities Act or let it die.

#8 | Posted by jw2 at 2023-03-17 07:02 AM | Reply

Jesus wept.

#9 | Posted by Angrydad at 2023-03-17 07:34 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

WHAT THE F*** IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2023-03-17 07:36 AM | Reply

WHAT THE F*** IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?

#10 | POSTED BY NIXON

Much of it can be explained by these people doing the opposite of what they think liberals want.

Outside a bit of genuine, native sadism I don't think there's a lot more to it.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2023-03-17 08:09 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Wow, they had a chance to end corporal punishment and they voted to keep it in place.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 08:26 AM | Reply

This is from 10 years ago but I was curious if local school districts could prohibit it.

www.oklahoman.com

"About 10 percent of Oklahoma's 518 school districts utilize corporal punishment, but most use it as a last resort and only after consulting with parents first."

#13 | Posted by eberly at 2023-03-17 08:29 AM | Reply

I can only see
decline everywhere, in saying which, however, I do not mean that earlier generations
were essentially better than ours, but only younger; that was their great advantage,
their memory was not so overburdened as ours today, it was easier to get them to
speak out, and even if nobody actually succeeded in doing that, the possibility of it was
greater,

#14 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-17 09:23 AM | Reply

No, whatever objection I may have to my age, former
generations were not better, indeed in a sense they were far worse, far weaker. Even in
those days wonders did not openly walk the streets for anyone to seize; but all the
same, dogs -- I cannot put it in any other way -- had not yet become so doggish as
today, the edifice of dogdom was still loosely put together, the true Word could still
have intervened,

#15 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-17 09:24 AM | Reply

Wow, they had a chance to end corporal punishment and they voted to keep it in place.
#12 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Why would anyone think I'm a fascist? All I do is identify with these people on a daily basis.
--Also Eberly

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2023-03-17 09:25 AM | Reply

Our generation is
lost, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier ones. I can understand the
hesitation of my generation, indeed it is no longer mere hesitation; it is the thousandth
forgetting of a dream dreamt a thousand times and forgotten a thousand times; and
who can damn us merely for forgetting for the thousandth time?

#17 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-17 09:25 AM | Reply

But I fancy I
understand the hesitation of our forefathers too, we would probably have acted just as
they did; indeed I could almost say: well for us that it was not we who had to take the
guilt upon us, that instead we can hasten in almost guiltless silence toward death in a
world darkened by others.

#18 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-17 09:28 AM | Reply

They did not know what we can now guess at,
contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in
ordinary existence, and that, when they began to enjoy a dog's life, they must already
have possessed real old dogs' souls, and were by no means so near their starting point
as they thought,

#19 | Posted by orgasmdonor at 2023-03-17 09:29 AM | Reply

Being republicans won't condemn nazis literally terrorizing children I doubt this will bother them at all

#20 | Posted by truthhurts at 2023-03-17 09:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

JW2

"Republicans hate those citizens with disabilities."

History claims that in Hitler's Nazi Germany they killed the disabled, all in the interest of keeping the Aryan race strong and without defects.

#21 | Posted by Twinpac at 2023-03-17 10:00 AM | Reply

This is from 10 years ago but I was curious if local school districts could prohibit it.
www.oklahoman.com
"About 10 percent of Oklahoma's 518 school districts utilize corporal punishment, but most use it as a last resort and only after consulting with parents first."

#13 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Only about .01% of people commit murder. It doesn't make it right.

#22 | Posted by Sycophant at 2023-03-17 10:11 AM | Reply

I can assure all readers that here in Okiehomie no hand is raised by a teacher against a white child, because the teachers all know that the child's parent is well armed. In the charter schools (almost all white) the punishment is to take away the kid's parking spot. In the few Catholic schools the kid being punished just runs laps and stays after school to swing a mop...

#23 | Posted by catdog at 2023-03-17 02:13 PM | Reply

In the few Catholic schools the the kid being punished gets ass raped by a man wearing a dress and a funny hat...

#23 | POSTED BY CATDOG

#24 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-17 05:09 PM | Reply

What strikes me about this story is that it seems to imply that in Oklahoma, school officials are ALLOWED to "deliberately inflict physical pain by hitting, paddling, spanking, slapping or any other physical force used as a means of discipline" against students. I say this because the bill that was mentioned, and which was defeated, specifically exempted only disabled students. That implies that even if this bill had been passed, that it would NOT have applied to students who were not disabled, thus meaning that they could have still been "hit, paddled, spanked and slapped" as a means of discipline.

I suspect that the people who were supporting this bill, have probably been accused of being 'too woke' by those who feel that there's nothing wrong with inflicting physical pain by hitting, paddling, spanking and slapping, even if the child was disabled or mentally impaired.

OCU

#25 | Posted by OCUser at 2023-03-17 06:13 PM | Reply

With the end of Roe, there are going to be a whole lot more differently abled children in this country. I wonder how the GQP is going to deal with that influx in our schools in the next five years. More special ed teachers and assistants will be needed. There will also be a lot more people needing state help with their state mandated children's medical issues, but of course they won't vote for a dollar more for these people because they love the fetus but hate the child.

#26 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2023-03-17 06:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Word to the wise if you physically strike a child you may end up getting shot by their parents.

#27 | Posted by Tor at 2023-03-17 07:01 PM | Reply

You're lucky they missed.

#28 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2023-03-17 07:31 PM | Reply

I wish the state of Oklahoma hadn't yielded to the lobbyists from big special needs kids and the woke agenda they are trying to cram down our throats.

#29 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-18 08:55 AM | Reply

In fact, the lobbyists from big special needs kids and their woke agenda is the biggest threat that this country has ever faced.

#30 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-18 08:59 AM | Reply

I wish the state of Oklahoma hadn't yielded to the lobbyists from big special needs kids and the woke agenda they are trying to cram down our throats.

#29 | Posted by tres_flechas

And exactly who are these "big special needs kids"?

OCU

#31 | Posted by OCUser at 2023-03-18 11:39 AM | Reply

The big special needs kids lobby, of course.

Just another group of lobbyists.

No different than the lobbyists from big oil.

Except woke lobbyists, so not the good kind.

#32 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-18 02:30 PM | Reply

#31 | Posted by OCUser

It appears as though (one can only hope) he is being facetious.

#33 | Posted by Angrydad at 2023-03-18 05:11 PM | Reply

one can only hope

#33 | POSTED BY ANGRYDAD AT 2

And what if I'm not???

There are people who post things like that here. every. single. day.

Ever referred to any of them as "one of the reasonable ones" or exchanged and playful banter with them?

Guess what?

They want you dead.

They always did.

They always will.

#34 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-18 06:07 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Wanna trade"playfully" barbs about how bad I want you and everyone who thinks like you do, or maybe just differently than me, eradicated from the planet?

#35 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-18 06:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Death to fascism and the le liberalism that allows it.

#36 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-18 06:54 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Posted by tres_flechas

Yeah, whatever, dude.

Seek help.

#37 | Posted by Angrydad at 2023-03-18 10:22 PM | Reply

Seek help.

#37 | POSTED BY ANGRYDAD

Yeah.

You're going to pretend like ------- liberals haven't said ---- like "I may disagree with him but I fully support his right to call for the extermination of an entire group of people.." or whatever.

It's probably been posted right here on this site.

#38 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2023-03-19 08:11 PM | Reply