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The mission of the Mississippi TAKEOFF is to bring Mississippians together who support having safe nurturing school environments for their children.  All children deserve to be treated with dignity, kindness and respect whether they attend public, private or charter schools.  20 US states and its territories allow teachers to beat the children in their care.  This practice is commonly known as corporal punishment, an old slave form of  “pain-based behavior management” sprung from the mindset of, “This is what you’re gonna get if you don’t listen!”

 
For the past 30 years, science has proven with an overabundance of evidence that beating or using any form of violence on a developing human being is harmful to them in EVERY way.   School boards in districts where officials are informed and care about their children are using nonviolent models of discipline that have their children become problem-solvers, leaders and independent thinkers.


Join us on Saturday, May 8, 2010 where caring Mississippians along with children’s rights organizations and advocates will become
one for having corporal punishment banned in Mississippi schools and replaced with effective nonviolent forms of discipline statewide.

Mississippi’s children are ready for their schools to TAKEOFF in the direction of 21st century American schools where scientifically-proven harmful forms of discipline have been replaced with effective mutually respectful models of discipline.
 
 

The Mississippi TAKEOFF
May 8, 2010

Rally and March begins outside of the Mississippi State Capitol: 10:00 am-11:30 am
Mississippi State Capitol
401 Mississippi St.
Jackson, MS  39201-1004 

Campaign rally signs are available on our website.

Jackson Marriott Hotel Luncheon and Workshops: 
Jackson Marriott
200 E. Amite Street
Jackson, MS  39201

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Lunch 12:00-12:45 pm

Workshops  1:00 pm-4:00 pm (details coming soon)

Ticket price: $25.00
  
Special discount hotel room rates available.
Contact Paula Flowe at: paulaflowe@thehittingstopshere.com

Click here to learn how to purchase a ticket and how to earn a free one.

We want to encourage you to bring your friends and community to the Mississippi Takeoff! 
For every four people who sign-up under your name, you will receive an envelope containing twenty-five dollars in cash at the door.  Each of your friends may do the same to earn a free ticket to this event as well, in the same manner. 

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Mississippi has one of the nation's highest rates of corporal punishment.  During the 2008-09 school year, there were 57,953 reported cases of corporal punishment in 110 of the state's 152 school districts, according to the state Department of Education. The number of reported incidents in 2006-07 was 47,727.  Reporting is not mandatory.

Each year, the Mississippi ACLU receives numerous calls from parents -- most often in north Mississippi and the Delta or in the southern half of the state who believe the punishment of their  child went too far because the child was injured or bruised. Some parents call the ACLU when they have asked school leaders to call before paddling the child or not to use corporal punishment at all, but it is done anyway.  There is no legal recourse for parents when such incidents occur.

 
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As superintendent of Oxford public schools in 1994, Dr. John Jordan worked with the school board to end corporal punishment in this Mississippi school district. He is the former Interim Mississippi State Superintendent of Education.

Please help us publicize the Mississippi Takeoff 2010 event.

We request that all supporters of “safe nurturing Mississippi schools” forward our letter and flyer, below, to Mississippi’s pediatricians, children and human rights groups, local news and media, and other community organizations and leaders.

Please post our flyer in popular venues throughout the state of Mississippi.


Click Here to download the Mississippi flyer





Click Here to download the Letter


February 2010



Dear Supporters of Safe Nurturing Mississippi Schools,

In 20 US states and its territories students are being beaten on their buttocks with wooden boards by teachers and administrators in districts that still sanction this practice. This archaic form of discipline, also known as corporal punishment, was introduced in American schools in the 1770's. Over the past 30 years, science has proven with an over abundance of evidence that any form of violence targeted at a developing human being is harmful to them in every way.

The state of Mississippi has the largest number of school districts allowing this practice and is second to Texas in the number of reported cases of school beatings--that number is increasing.

Consider these facts regarding corporal punishment in Mississippi schools:
Reported number of school beatings during 2006-07: 47,727. Reported number of school beatings during 2008-09: 57,953.
Primary targets: minorities and disabled students.
Reporting is not mandatory.

Mississippi school children are ready to takeoff in a direction that is befitting to 21st century American schools where effective nonviolent models of discipline are being used. Such models help students become problem-solvers, independent thinkers and leaders.
Mississippi school children need people who care to become their voices for having safe nurturing schools.

Please join citizens of Mississippi, The Hitting Stops Here!, Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education, and other supporters of safe American schools on Saturday, May 8, 2010 in being a voice for Mississippi's school children at our Mississippi Takeoff event. This event will begin with a 10 am rally and march outside of the Mississippi State Capitol building followed by lunch, workshops and guest speakers at the Jackson Marriott Hotel.

Learn more by going to www.TheHittingStopsHere.com. Scroll down to Mississippi Takeoff in the left column under Hot Topics.

Mississippi children are ready to see their schools "takeoff" in a direction where mutual respect and kindness is used in solving EVERY conflict through nonviolent forms of discipline.

Sincerely,

Paula Flowe, Exec. Director
Tony Brian, Asst. Exec. Director
The Hitting Stops Here!
A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere.
www.TheHittingStopsHere.com
408.509.6835
info@thehittingstopshere.com
Board members of Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE)
American SAFEPASS advisors (Student Alliance For Education in Peaceful American SchoolS)
 

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