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Putting an End to Beatings in Public Schools
The town of Jackson, Miss., has been considering reintroducing corporal punishment into its public schools. So it's especially fitting that today's Clarion Ledger carried an op-ed by the ACLU's Alice Farmer and ACLU of Mississippi's Nsombi Lambright about exactly why corporal punishment in schools is a bad idea. They write:
In Mississippi, African-American boys are punished at 1.7 times the rate that would be expected given their numbers in the student population.Alice is the author a new report about the use of corporal punishment in public schools. Called A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in U.S. Public Schools, the report focuses specifically on the use of physical punishment in schools in Mississippi and Texas. You can also discuss the use corporal punishment on The Washington Post's Rights Watchers discussion group.
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Aug 25th, 2008 at 12:57pm
Maybe, just maybe little nigger children need their black mud race asses beat because their lowlifes like their parents.
Aug 25th, 2008 at 8:36pm
That's so RACIST!! Also, no body should hit anybody EVER for any reason!! Corporal punishment needs to be fully banned, yes, including at home, like it is in Sweden.