Corporal punishment rife in US schools, report says

[babylonsister]

Corporal punishment rife in US schools, report says

Ed Stoddard
Reuters North American News Service

Aug 19, 2008 17:50 EST


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 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.

The punishment often involves hitting a child on the buttocks with a long wooden board, or paddle.

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1. Any link to the actual report? This article is missing a lot of info. NT

[babylonsister]

3. No link; this was from a Reuters article, and the info comes from

Dept. of Ed. data.

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

Citing U.S. Department of Education data, the report said 223,190 students nationwide received corporal punishment at least once in the 2006-2007 school year. This included 49,197 students in Texas, the largest number of any state.

[sasquatch]

2. 2 thing you can do to assure that yeah have a pleasant life in this country

1. Never ever live in the South.
2. NEVER EVER LIVE IN THE SOUTH!!