HOUSTON – Anti-corporal punishment activists say they will demonstrate in Austin Friday against paddling in Texas schools.
While most districts have already eliminated paddling, an estimated 20 percent of them still practice it on a limited basis.
Jimmy Dunne, president of People Opposed to Paddling Students, says corporal punishment in schools should be illegal.
“We consider corporal punishment in the schools not to be discipline but actually to be child abuse,” Dunne says.
Pasadena ISD is one of the few districts in the Houston area that still occasionally uses paddling.
The district’s spokesperson, Candace Ahlfinger, says paddling occurs about 40 times during the school year.
“We do have to have parent’s permission, any time that corporal punishment is meted out,” Ahlfinger says.
Ahlfinger says a witness must also be present.
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