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7 Tribune, Jackson County, Ind. LOCAL NEWS AND OBITUARIES Friday, April 2, 2004 Page 3A Paddling Continued from Page 1A the Seymour Teachers' Association, said the option is there, but it is one that is very rarely used in Seymour. "Corporal punishment is not an option that is chosen in Seymour Community Schools," Fenton said. "It varies from building to building, but I know at Seymour Middle School that teachers never paddle." Critics of the rule say. there are more effective ways to discipline students and call paddling a negative response to negative behavior.

"If we use violence to counter violence, then the message is lost," Ted Feinberg, assistant executive director of the National Association of School Psychologists in Bethesda, told The Associated Press last week. "It just doesn't work, and it doesn't help the kids who are prone to inappropriate behavior." A law allowing the practice of paddling has been on the state's books for at least 30 years. A 1995 revision authorized teachers and school staffers to "take any action that i is reasonably necessary" to prevent interference with educational missions. Another law gives parents and guardians the right to use "reasonable" physical force to discipline a child. "There is a huge difference between corporal punishment and abuse," Goodin said.

"People complain that there are so many problems in the schools, but yet people want all discipline gone." "I have been at corporations where it is allowed and where it is not," Fenton said, "but I think that if it is allowed it must be personally monitored, because there is a way to administrate it and a way to not." Reading Continued from Page 1A Becky Butler, third-grade teacher, said she implemented the Accelerated Reading program at Crothersville after witnessing its success at- Jackson Elementary -School in Scott County. "Our students weren't reading and our reading scores were low," Butler said. "We were looking for something to interest them and this has seemed to work." "It's fulfilling for me to see that it's taken off so well." The program runs from kindergarten through fifth grade. So far, students at the elementary school have read 21,000 books. If they reach 25,000 books read, Principal Claude Morgan will dress up as a clown for a day.

"They're finding enjoyment in reading and they don't see it as schoolwork," Butler said. Looks as if Morgan will have to start polishing his clown shoes. TRIBUNE NEWSROOM 522-4871 Toll (800) 800-8212 Foster joins force A 1865 Tribune photo by Melinda Knox Seymour Mayor Jim Bullard administered an oath Monday morning to the Seymour Police Department's newest officer, C.J. Foster, at Seymour City Hall. Foster comes to the department from the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, where he worked for 15 years.

Four killed COLUMBUS (AP) A car crossed the center line of U.S. 31 just south of Columbus and hit two other vehicles, killing four people, police said. Charles Kroll, 74, of Wildwood, was driving north shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday when his car crossed the center line and sideswiped a southbound car, then collided head-on with a sport utility vehicle, police said. The collision killed all four.

people in Kroll's car, including a couple from Taylorsville, police said. I Incident Continued from Page 1A their children picked up, she said. Hackman said four girls, two fourth-graders and two third-graders, asked Hackman's assistant if they could use the Internet because they wanted to get something for a school project. Hackman said she and her assistant continued to clean up the Kids Club room in preparation for going home as the girls used the computer, which sits on the teacher's desk. At that point, Hackman said, one of the girls said they had typed in "boys" on the computer and a picture of two boys doing "something nasty" came up on the screen.

"I told the girls they needed to get off the computer right now," Hackman said. Hackman said the Kids Klub has four computers, but only the one on the teacher's desk has Internet access. She added she has told children using the comin crash near Columbus is about 40 miles south of Indianapolis. The accident happened on a straight, level section of road just south of the city. Bartholomew County Sheriff's Maj.

Mark Gorbett said Kroll was not speeding, and Deputy Coroner Jay Frederick said he could not determine why Kroll crossed the center line. Kroll and his wife, Leona, 71, were pronounced dead at the scene. Two passengers who were riding in the back seat Charles Barnsfather, 76, and Betty Barns- puter that they need to ask before switching Web sites SO she can keep an eye on what they are doing. "The older girls have used it before when they were doing school projects," Hackman said: Hackman said she discussed the incident with Abbott the next day, and Abbott told her to keep children off the computer in question. On March 24, Abbott informed Hackman that the Child Care Network's board had met and a decision had been made to dismiss Hackman.

"She told me she had to let me go," Hackman said. She added that she enoyed her job and loved working with the kids. Abbott said the computer with Internet access is for the teacher, and that Hackman shouldn't have given them access to that computer. Hackman also failed to report the incident to her, Abbott said. Abbott added she has since discussed the matter with school officials, THE TRIBUNE www.TribTown.com Volume 126 No.

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Ambrose Catholic Church, Seymour John Kay Simpson 11 a.m. Dove-Sharp Rudicel Funeral Home, North Vernon John Kay Simpson May 3, 1940 April 1, 2004 John Kay Simpson, 63, Martha Pettigrew. She surCommiskey, died at 7:08 vives. a.m. Thursday, April 1, Other survivors include 2004, at St.

Vincent Jen- four sons, John Simpson, non. nings Mr. Simpson Hospital, retired North from- Ver- and David Simpson, Dennis Simpson all of Simpson, and Commiskey, Darrell North the Jennings County High- Vernon; a daughter, way visor in Department 1993, and as a retired super- Skinner, Columbus; a brothfrom Cummins Engine er, Robert Simpson, Colum-, Columbus, as a supervisor Marie Eder and Margaret Rose. bus; three sisters, in 1983 after 24 years of service. He was a retired Lee, both of North Vernon, farmer and member of and Joan Crowe, HazelCommiskey Baptist Church.

wood; and 22 grandchildren. He belonged te 6-Mile A brother, William Simp-: Masonic Lodge, Hayden, son, preceded him in and was a 1958 graduate of The Rev. Clyde Angel will. Vernon High School, Ver- conduct funeral services at He enjoyed gardening, 11 a.m. Saturday at Doveyard- work and woodwork- Sharp Rudicel Funeral' ing.

Home, North Vernon, with Born May 3, 1940, he was burial in Vernon Cemetery. the son of William Henry Friends may call from .4 and Florence Trapp Simp- p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the son, who preceded him in funeral home. Memorials death.

On Sept. 12, 1959, at may be given to CommiskeyNorth Vernon, he married Baptist Church. Orville Hackman Orville G.W. Hackman, town. 75, died at 2:30 a.m.

Friday, Arrangements are pendApril 2, 2003, at Hoosier ing at Adams Funeral Christian Village, Browns- Home, Crothersville. Columbus father, 66, of Taylorsville died later at Columbus Regional Hospital. The Krolls were wearing seat belts, but the Barnsfathers were not, police said. A passenger in the sideswiped car was treated and released from the hospital. The SUV's driver, 63- year-old Barbara Beavers of Deputy, was listed in fair condition Thursday, night.

Hospital officials said they could not release further information about her condition overnight. and more filters have been added to the computer at the school. She added she believes the girls probably visited the Web site accidentally. "It's happened to 'me before," she said of the possibility that typing in a normal word might bring up a pornography site. Abbott said she has informed -parents of the children involved about the incident, but did not have any complaints from parents before she made the decision to fire Hackman.

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