URGENT !!!
April 2008

"The Hitting Stops Here!" campaign will be returning to Robeson County, NC to call for the immediate banning of corporal punishment in classrooms and the implementation of positive, nonviolent methods of student management. Children must be protected! They deserve the best treatment and the best models.

Please join us! To find out what you can do, email Paula Flowe, Director of The Hitting Stops Here!

April is "Spank Out Month." Below is the schedule for our Spank Out Month campaign in Robeson.

Thank you!

Paula Flowe, Director of "The Hitting Stops Here!" campaign


  • Saturday
    April 19: 10 AM till evening
    Public School Corporal Punishment Awareness Event
    T &T Skate Zone, 3437 Fayetteville Rd., Lumberton, NC 28358
    (910) 738-2888

  • Monday
    April 21: 2 PM

    Campaign rally, Lumberton H S, 3901 Fayetteville Road, Lumberton 28358

  • Tuesday
    April 22: 2 PM
    Campaign rally, Rowland M S, 408 W Chapel St., Rowland 28383

    6 PM to 9 PM
    Positive Discipline Parenting Workshop
    Partnership for Children
    210 East 2nd Street, Lumberton, NC 28358

  • Wednesday
    April 23: 2 PM
    Campaign Rally, Red Springs M S, 302 W Second Avenue, Red Springs 28377

    6 PM - 9 PM
    Positive Discipline Workshop for Educators
    Partnership for Children
    210 East 2nd Street, Lumberton, NC 28358

  • Thursday
    April 24:
    Free literature on nonviolent parenting and nonviolent teaching will be distributed during the afternoon and evening in front of Walmart in Lumberton, NC.

  • Friday 3 PM through Saturday 12 Noon
    April 25 -26:
    21-Hour Dance Marathon
    One hour of dance devoted to children living in the remaining 21 corporal punishment states.
    T. A. Walker Activity Center, 300 Brooke Lane, Lumberton, NC 28358.
    DIRECTIONS: From 95 South, exit 17, "Pembroke/Lumberton." At light, make a left onto 72. At stop light turn onto 5th St. Keep straight and make a right at the next stop light onto Martin Luther King Dr., which is 41 south. Make the next left onto Utah St. Then make a right onto Nevada St., and the next right onto Freedom Dr. Continue until you reach Douglas Dr. Turn right onto Douglas Dr. See play area and T A Walker Activity Building to the right of play area. See you there!

  • Monday, April 28
    Summary of Paula Flowe's conference with Superintendent Hunt to be posted here. Watch for it.


    Need more information?
    Want to volunteer?

    Email Paula Flowe at paulaflowe@thehittingstopshere.com


    Our Children Need You!

  • See related: Group calls for corporal punishment ban By Mark Locklear, The Robesonian, March 19, 2008


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