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Video shows students still get paddled in US schools

  • Written by F. Chris Curran, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Florida
Video shows students still get paddled in US schoolsAt least 92,000 K-12 students in the U.S. were paddled or spanked at school in the 2015-2016 school year.dannikonov/iStock via Getty Images Plus

The image of a teacher paddling or spanking a student at school may seem to belong in a history book – as archaic a practice as the dunce cap. However, for thousands of students across America each...

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