|
Posted on 08.20.08 by Thomas L. Knapp
“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. … 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.” (08/20/08)Re Link: http://tinyurl.com/5gk238 Filed under: RRND News | Report Bad Link Bookmark this post in Furl or Del.icio.us | |
advertisement
