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Spanking is harmful to children. Why do schools still allow it? [washingtonpost.com]

 

By Joel Warsh, Photo: Washington Post staff illustration/Getty Images/iStockphoto, The Washington Post, September 7, 2022

Joel Warsh is a pediatrician in Los Angeles specializing in integrative medicine.

What decade are we in? A school district in southwestern Missouri has decided to bring back corporal punishment — otherwise known as spanking, in this case with paddles — as a way to discipline students.

Parents in Cassville, Mo., learned recently that spanking would once again be allowed in school, the Springfield News-Leader reported, adding that “each family will be asked to opt in or out.”

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