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Paddling Preferable to Juvenile Justice System?

Whether to paddle kids is an intensely personal family decision, but as long as it's done formalistically, not in anger, and with parents' permission, I don't have great concern to learn from the Austin Statesman that:Texas is one of only 20 states that still permits corporal punishment. The main reason for its standing as primary paddler is, of course, its size. In terms of spankings-per-student, Texas ranks only 8th, behind Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Georgia. (Basically, the SEC, with the exception of Oklahoma.)But that?s still 49,157 instances of paddling reported during the course of the 2006-07 school year ? just under 300 per school day. Of those cases, 10,222 blows were administered to students with disabilities...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).