Students who misbehave in the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District can be spanked.
The procedure is you put your hands on your desk," Superintendent Tony Limon said while demonstrating how paddling is administered.
He still remembers paddling students over the course of a decade using a customized grip on the wood as principal years back.
This is what he would tell someone who agreed to the spanking.
I'm just gonna hit you here in the rear and it's just gonna be two swats and we're just gonna come in and whack," Limon said as he outlined the paddling process.
He still calls it an effective form of discipline under the right guidelines.
"It's an option that we need to have, not for all students, but for some students," he explained. "Perhaps the one student that when swatted will never do that again."
Texas is one of 19 states that does allow corporal punishment at public schools, according to online reports.
But a Houston-area legislator wants the law changed to ban the practice.
State Representative Alma Allen, D-Houston, filed the bill.
Her proposal would eliminate physical tactics of discipline like hitting spanking and paddling from the education code.
"Children don't learn in fear," the representative told Action 4 News over the phone. "They should not be beat. Corporal punishment is a form of child abuse and it is the only legal form of child abuse in the State of Texas."
Parents can currently opt out of corporal punishment with written notice to the school.
Those at Dr. Cash Elementary in San Benito have mixed reviews about the proposed all-out ban.
"I used to get spanked in school," Hipolito Zamora said.
He doesn’t support the bill and calls the form of punishment ineffective.
"I just got more violent... more angry," he said.
Veronica Segura agrees.
"Not even in our house do we do it so why should somebody else," she said.
But Ruben Sanchez thinks there is a place for corporal punishment in Texas schools.
"We all have our way of disciplining our kids and sometimes that's one of the ways that gets your attention," he explained.
Superintendent Limon hopes the legislative measure fails.
"I happen to be old school," he said. "I happen to believe there's a place for corporal punishment."
To spank or not to spank at Texas schools, that is the question legislators will soon face.
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