Minorities, kids with disabilities more likely to be paddled
August 20th, 2008From CNN, the Associated Press, USA Today, Reuters:
A quarter of a million schoolchildren were spanked or paddled in school last year, and students who are members of minority groups or have disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.
The study, by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, analyzed Education Department data. It found that corporal punishment remains widespread across the South, although it has been outlawed in a majority of states.
The two groups said that corporal punishment in schools creates a “violent and degrading school environment.” They want federal and state lawmakers to ban it.
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August 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Well there you go! Sunnie has the cure for school shootings; just beat the crap out of kids and they won’t be violent! This is so wrong it’s ridiculous. People who have been abused tend to become abusers. If you want to create violent people treat them with violence. What about that is so difficult to understand?
August 20th, 2008 at 11:36 am
My opinion on spankings in schools? I can’t recall ever hearing of a school shooting in my parents’ time, back when they got rapped across the knuckles with a ruler.