Study Finds Minorities More Likely To Be Paddled
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Study Finds Minorities More Likely To Be Paddled
Study Finds Minorities More Likely To Be Paddled
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:59 AM EDT
The Associated Press
By LIBBY QUAID AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year — and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.
Even little kids can be paddled. Heather Porter, who lives in Crockett, Texas, was startled to hear her little boy, then 3, say he'd been spanked at school. Porter was never told, despite a policy at the public preschool that parents be notified.
"We were pretty ticked off, to say the least. The reason he got paddled was because he was untying his shoes and playing with the air conditioner thermostat," Porter said. "He was being a 3-year-old."
For the study, which was being released Wednesday, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union used Education Department data to show that, while paddling has been declining, racial disparity persists. Researchers also interviewed students, parents and school personnel in Texas and Mississippi, states that account for 40 percent of the 223,190 kids who were paddled at least once in the 2006-2007 school year.
Porter could have filled out a form telling the school not to paddle her son, if only she had realized he might be paddled.
Yet many parents find that such forms are ignored, the study said.
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Re: Study Finds Minorities More Likely To Be Paddled
Oh no
Minorites most affected
Minorites most affected
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Re: Study Finds Minorities More Likely To Be Paddled
Could it be minorities are the worst behaved? Oh... you can't ask that question...
Re: Study Finds Minorities More Likely To Be Paddled
Pale Rider wrote:Could it be minorities are the worst behaved? Oh... you can't ask that question...
You are such a racist bastard
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