Disaster Daniels wants to protect teachers who beat kids

Of all the positively idiotic, stupid things Disaster Daniels has tried to do, this has got to be one of the very worst!

If a school principal or teacher paddled your child without permission, what's the obvious course of action? Most parents would sue 'em to court.

But in Indiana, right-wing Gov. Mitch Daniels wants to give legal immunity to school personnel who practice excessive discipline of any sort.

Republican Daniels - being the crackpot he is - said lawsuits over school discipline are "legal harassment." He's even asked the Indiana Attorney General to assist school employees who find themselves sued.

As further proof America no longer has a two-party system, the campaign of Daniels's Democratic opponent Jill Long Thompson signed on to Daniels's worthless idea. (I've yet to hear who the Green candidate is.)

A school board member in northwestern Indiana's Portage Township grumbled that teachers avoid corporal punishment because of lawsuits, and he praised Daniels's proposal.

During a year in which over 100 American school employees have been convicted of sexually abusing students and in which hundreds more are in trouble for physical abuse and making students soil their pants, do we really need this?

Instead of giving school faculty immunity, why not fire bad teachers and keep the good ones? Maybe it's because that would make too much sense, and Disaster Daniels isn't known for doing anything that makes sense.

(Source: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/NEWS05/808120386;
http://www.post-trib.com/news/1102809,daniels.article)