Corporal punishment in schools still happens in these states [Chron.com]

Samantha Sangenito 1/21/1612:00 PM

Each year, tens of thousands of American students are still paddled, spanked or otherwise struck by school faculty as corporal punishment, finds anew report by the Brooking Institute.

Federal data shows 166,807 students received corporal punishment in the 2011-2012 school year, the most recent year for which data is available. Of those, 28,569 were in Texas.

The Brookings Institute report, released Thursday, also finds a dramatic racial disparity in the application of corporal punishment, defined as the infliction of physical pain for behavioral modification.

[For more of this story, written by Dylan Baddour, go to http://www.chron.com/news/educ...33.php#photo-7985646]

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