The paddle at Holmes County High School in Bonifay, Florida, in 2012. It is made of ash wood and is 16 inches long. (stateimpact.npr.org) All the federal Department of Education figures, too, should be treated as estimates at best; formerly they were extrapolated from only a proporti...
In the first nine weeks of the school year, Westview reported paddling 307 students. Of 136 schools to submit reports on the number of students paddled, only two others paddled more than 100 -- Drew Junior High, 132, and Mann Junior High, 125. Forty-four schools reported paddling no stu...
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or be paddled, by a member of the county school system. At Monday's board meeting, school officials discussed changing the board policy to revoke all forms of this type. All members were in favor of leaving the decision of paddling a child up to ...
Florida's Jackson County School District -- which only has about 7,000 students -- paddled 480 of them in 2009-10. That's 7 percent, one of the state leaders. Boynton said she believes a district in-school suspension program, which launched in the fall 2010 after corporal punishment was...
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"As a school administrator in the state of Florida, I have the option to administer corporal punishment as a means of reinforcing the inappropriateness of unacceptable behavior. This does not mean I WILL use it. The law simply gives me that option. Yes, Shining Star will enforce the highest...
Bradenton Herald, Florida, 17 February 1998 Paddling: moot point Corporal punishment would bring schools big trouble It is hard to believe that the Manatee School Board is resurrecting the corporal punishment issue. In this era of heightened sensitivity to violence and child abuse, we can't imagin...
10-minute news report from Florida (2007) about a man who is in trouble for spanking his 8-year-old son with a belt. Includes interview with the man and his lawyer. --United States: Free paddles for parents. Two rival TV news items (2007) on carpenter Joey Salvati of Pennsylvania, ...