Instances of corporal punishment fell by over 23,000 from the 2016-17 school year to the 2021-22 school year. School leaders say this is because of the pandemic and a 2019 state law.
by Julia James, Mississippi Today February 7, 2023 Shortly after moving to Madison, Jamie Bardwell learned that the Madison County School District requires parents to opt out in writing from corporal punishment being used on their children, a fact she discovered from other students talking about it in her son’s class. “A kid got paddled, came back and told my son, and my son was terrified,” she said.
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