More than 200,000 children were hit as punishment in U.S. schools last year
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.
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.
What.
The.
Fuck.
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.
Some U.S. conservatives view moves to ban corporal punishment in school and spanking at home as "liberal permissiveness" which can lead to bad behavior and wider social problems such as juvenile delinquency.
Excuse me while I go get my baseball bat (aluminum) and go in search of a "U.S. conservative's" child.
Am off to knock off any "liberal permissiveness" off that juve.
This is insane.
I can't believe (and didn't know) that in America teachers are allowed to hit students.
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