How-to-Study Blog » Corporal Punishment http://www.how-to-study.com/blog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:30:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Corporal Punishment and Disabled Students http://www.how-to-study.com/blog/101/corporal-punishment-and-disabled-students http://www.how-to-study.com/blog/101/corporal-punishment-and-disabled-students#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:43:01 +0000 admin http://www.how-to-study.com/blog/?p=101 Recent federal Department of Education data show that more 200,000 school children are paddled, spanked, or subjected to other physical punishment each year. Twenty states continue to allow corporal punishment in public schools. This is disturbing in itself. Even more disturbing is the fact that students with disabilities receive a disproportionate share of corporal punishment. Whereas students with disabilities make up 14% of all students, 19% of students receiving corporal punishment had disabilities.

Both the Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union are urging lawmakers to ban corporal punishment nationwide. They urge an immediate moratorium on corporal punishment of students with disabilities. Advocates of the moratorium point out that in some cases, students with disabilities have no understanding of why they are being punished. We support the overall ban on corporal punishment and most certainly with regard to students with disabilities.

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