19 States currently allow corporal punishment:
-Idaho
-Arizona
-Texas
-Colorado
-Wyoming
-Kansas
-Oklahoma
-Texas
-Missouri
-Louisiana
-Arkansas
-Indiana
-Kentucky
-Tennessee
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Georgia
-Florida
-Alabama
Students with disabilities tend to receive corporal punishment at a disproportionate rate compared to students without disabilities in those states. Black students also tend to receive a disproportionate amount of corporal punishment compared to white students.
Violence begets violence. Such outdated practices need to end. Unfortunately they won't as long as we have people who believe that hurting those weaker than yourselves is an appropriate way to punish people.
-Idaho
-Arizona
-Texas
-Colorado
-Wyoming
-Kansas
-Oklahoma
-Texas
-Missouri
-Louisiana
-Arkansas
-Indiana
-Kentucky
-Tennessee
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Georgia
-Florida
-Alabama
Students with disabilities tend to receive corporal punishment at a disproportionate rate compared to students without disabilities in those states. Black students also tend to receive a disproportionate amount of corporal punishment compared to white students.
Violence begets violence. Such outdated practices need to end. Unfortunately they won't as long as we have people who believe that hurting those weaker than yourselves is an appropriate way to punish people.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton