Paula Flowe  

Message to the Olympic High School Staff, Students and Community: Children attending schoo

We left Mr. Miller with a charge, on November 18, 2009, to ban all American school abuse by December 1, 2009. As a government official it is his sworn duty to uphold the US Constitution by extending it to all citizens of this great country. School children are US citizens too and qualify for having the 14th amendment “equal protection” clause extended to them even on American school campuses. We will return to his office on Wed. Dec. 2 to find learn of his response. If he chooses to leave our American children in unsafe school conditions we will begin holding nonviolent protests outside of his Concord, CA office until our children have laws protecting them from all American school abuse.

American SAFEPASS: New club at San Jose City College. Meetings held Wednesdays, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Rm. GE-205. 20 US states and its territories sanction beating our school children with wooden boards, straps, switches and the like for committing “deemed” school infractions. 50 US states and its territories have no federal laws prohibiting the use of harmful seclusions and restraints.

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 10am PST, The Hitting Stops Here! has a scheduled appointment to meet with the office of Dept. of Education and Labor Chairman George Miller. This meeting will be held at 1333 Willow Pass Road in Concord, CA. We need your help. Please tune in to this 15 minute message and learn how you can support our efforts for having safe nurturing schools for our American school children. We will demand that all violent forms of student discipline be prohibited, thus teachers will be considered “out of compliance” if they place their hands on our school children or exercise the use of paddles, duct tape, bungee cords, ropes, belts, switches, leather straps, and the like for the purpose of disciplining the students in their care. Please listen and consider helping our efforts in having safe nurturing American schools for all children throughout the US and its territories. School children in districts that sanction violent discipline models are counting on you. Thank you, 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 info@thehittingstopshere.com 408.223.7797

Message to Arne Duncan on the American school abuse that he is engaged in ignoring. Tune in and know what the American school children need for you to know. Please listen. I speak on their behalf and tell a story of which Government Accountability Office Forensic Investigator Gregory Kutz referred to as a "horror story." And all he was doing was reading about the abuse, some of which has led to fatalities, taken place on a daily bases in American schools. Please listen. Hear what the children need every responsible caring American to know. Thank you, Paula Flowe, Exec. Dir., The Hitting Stops Here!, A campaign for teaching kindness and respect in schools everywhere. www.TheHittingStopsHere.com, Board Member of Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education paulaflowe@thehittingstopshere.com 408.223.7797

The Hitting Stops Here! (THSH!) contacted Temple Independent School District (TISD) officials regarding their decision to reinstate the use of corporal punishment, having one goal in mind: Informing TISD of the harm caused by the use of corporal punishment as it applies in American schools to a developing human being. Responsible caring and professional school officials choose to prohibit enforcing any policy known by medical science to be harmful in any way to the children in their care. Science has proven that even the threat of physical violence is harmful to children. THSH! anticipated being met with a level of professionalism that parents and communities at large expect from school officials who oversee the needs of the school children with whom they have been entrusted. Our organization provided TISD school officials with three sound, compelling, and professional investigative reports on the issue of “American school corporal punishment.” They are the recent GAO, ACLU, and UC Davis Law investigative reports.* They are the most current and significant reports of this millennium on this topic, all of which were released within nine months of each other. To our disappointment, we were met with a lack of concern and unprofessional attitudes with each encounter. As a result, the children in care of TISD remain in a compromising and vulnerable state.