Spanking could return this school year in classrooms in a small town in southwest Missouri, where the district will now allow physical punishment for any unruly student whose parents agree.
In Cassville, about 50 miles from Branson City, teachers this week notified parents of the new policy at a meeting and handed out consent forms for them to sign, according to a parent who attended the meeting.
“At the end of the day, it gives the school one more tool to discipline a child, without sending them home on suspension, where they would just play video games,” said Dylan Burns, 28, a local farmer who favors the corporal punishment option.
Corporal punishment was a widely accepted means of maintaining discipline in American schools during the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the practice has disappeared in recent decades.
In 1977, the US Supreme Court ruled that corporal punishment in schools was constitutional, giving states the right to decide for themselves. Since then, many of them have banned the practice.
But 19 US states still allow it, most of them in the South, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Source: CNN Brasil
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