Corporal punishment seen rife in U.S. schools

[SHRED]

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Kind of lets the air out of the tires of those who claim we need to get back to hitting children.
We are still there.

Whacking kids to teach them violence is wrong.
Real smart.
And how many of those teachers are perverts?

To resort to paddling kids only means you are not smart enough to deal with them.

Violence is the rule rather than the exception in American culture.
There are reasons for that.

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Corporal punishment seen rife in U.S. schools
Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:54am EDT

By Ed Stoddard

DALLAS (Reuters) - More than 200,000 children were hit as punishment in U.S. schools last year and in the South more blacks than whites are struck, two human rights groups said in a report released on Wednesday.

Texas accounted for a quarter of the instances of corporal punishment in the 2006-2007 school year, according to the study compiled by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.

The report, titled "A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in U.S. Public Schools," plays into a debate in America about the effectiveness of corporal punishment and its role in the classroom and home.

Twenty-one U.S. states still permit the use of corporal punishment in schools. In Texas and Mississippi children as young as 3 are struck for transgressions as minor as gum chewing, the report says.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1931921320080820?sp=true


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[DailyGrind51]

1. We need "general" rather than "corporal" punishment in schools!

[Lance_Boyle]

2. anything but the dreaded rear admiral! n/t

[DrDan]

3. and junior went to school in Texas in his early years . . . hmmmmmm