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Corporal punishment

17 years 9 months ago #67348 by <beignets&coffee>
Replied by <beignets&coffee> on topic RE: Corporal punishment
someone here MUST know oprah via via via via via a friend or family or colleague....its the rule of 6 (youre only 6 persons away from anyone).....i heard about it in a book by malcolm gladwell (if i am not mistaken, maybe The Tipping Point or Blink).....and a personal call always works wonders.....maybe someone here also can get thru to the First Lady that way.....think think think whom you know that may know someone that may know someone etc etc etc.
17 years 9 months ago #67347 by Lucella
Replied by Lucella on topic RE: Corporal punishment
Just sent my .02 to Oprah.
17 years 9 months ago #67346 by Shawn
Replied by Shawn on topic RE: Corporal punishment
Links you can with the instant UBB code- ads and such are looked down upon and sometimes removed- but me thinks if it covers a topic disucssed its cool. Emails not sure... Tim can shed light on that .. he's lurking around somewhere soon I'm sure

<font size=""1""><font color="#"black"">Liberalism is not an affilation its a curable disease. </font></font><br /><br><font color="#"gray"">~Wisdom of Shawnshuefus</font><br /><br><font color="#"blue""><font size=""1"">The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is...
17 years 9 months ago #67345 by pegmomof4
Replied by pegmomof4 on topic RE: Corporal punishment
Beignets,
I would go to DC to lobby for this in a heartbeat. I have offered to meet with Laura Bush, Margaret Spellings, who is the Secretary of Education for the US Dept of Ed.
It will take luck and a big break to get there!
Thanks.
17 years 9 months ago #67344 by pegmomof4
Replied by pegmomof4 on topic RE: Corporal punishment
May I post my email address here?
May I post links to web sites?
I don't wish to break rules, I didn't see anything about this in writing, but some forums have those types of rules, and for good reason.
Let me know, I would love to share that with this group.
17 years 9 months ago #67343 by pegmomof4
Replied by pegmomof4 on topic RE: Corporal punishment
Thanks one and all for all the great support. Lucella, I do know stophitting.com so well. The executive director, Nadine Block, has become a friend and mentor. When I wrote my first letter to the editor of our local paper, she contacted me, and really put a fire under me. She forwarded my letter to Jordan Riak, the Executive Director of Project No Spank, nospank.net, and I am now on the Board of Directors there. See that website, and look at the North Carolina section. You can acutally see photos of the injuries that children are sustaining in the name of discipline at schools. This is unbelievable.
It was my lucky day to post on this forum and find incredible, resourceful, supportive people. Thank you so much for all of your help. Oprah would be a homerun, grandslam homerun, let's all ask for help! There is strength in numbers.
If nothing else, I have stirred up some very powerful community leaders here, and heightened the awareness that this is still going on in the year 2006.
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