Disabled Students Are Spanked More
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Disabled Students Are Spanked More
More than 200,000 schoolchildren are paddled, spanked or subjected to other physical punishment each year, and disabled students get a disproportionate share of the treatment, according to a new study.
Most states prohibit corporal punishment in public schools, but 20 do not. The two watchdog groups that collaborated on the report, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, are urging federal and state lawmakers to extend the ban nationwide and enact an immediate moratorium on physical punishment of students with disabilities.
As recently as the 1970s, only two states had laws banning corporal punishment, but 28 others have since passed similar legislation.
Corporal punishment is still permitted in some form in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming.
The most recent state to enact a ban was Ohio, where Gov. Ted Strickland last month signed into law a measure including a such a prohibition.
In states that do not have bans, some school districts do. In Louisiana, about 56 districts allow corporal punishment, while about 14 prohibit it. Last month the Education Committee of the Louisiana Legislature voted 8 to 6 to reject a proposed ban.
Roy McCoy, principal of Beekman Junior High School in Bastrop, Louisiana, testified against the bill.
Classroom discipline has been an increasing problem, Mr. McCoy told lawmakers. In an interview, he said paddling is no cure-all, "but when other means of correcting behavior have failed to produce the desired improvement, it could be a viable option."
Among the cases cited in the report was that of a 6-year-old, first-grade boy with autism, who was paddled at his Mississippi elementary school.
An assistant principal who the report described as weighing 300 pounds "picked up an inch-thick paddle and paddled him" on the buttocks, the report said.
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spank
동. 볼기짝을 찰싹 때리다
paddle
동. 노를 젓다; 물을 튀기며 놀다; 찰싹 때리다 (속어); 탁구채로 공을 치다
disproportionate
형. 불균형의, 같지 않은, 상대적으로 크거나 작은
corporal punishment
체형
enact
동. 제정하다, 규정하다; 상연하다, 연기하다
moratorium
명. (법) 지불정지, 지불연기, 지불유예, 일시적 활동 정지
disability
명. 무능력, 능력이 없음; 결함, 불구, 무능을 야기하는 것
legislation
명. 법 제정, 입법; 법, 법령
prohibition
명. 금지상태; 금지; 금지령
cure-all
만병통치, 만능
viable
형. 생존 가능한, 생육 가능한; 실행가능한;
autism
명. 자폐성, 주변환경과의 교감을 하지 않는 것이 특징인 정신 이상
buttocks
명. 엉덩이, 궁둥이
