I remember what it was…I had run into a website that included some musings of one of our WorldTeach colleagues. In comments made in response to her, someone from the States was surprised that Alana was so upset by the corporal punishment here, that it is common in the Southern states. I couldn’t believe it. Did some surfing and found out that, if I remember correctly, 17 of our states do not ban corporal punishment and it is alive & well in those states. Of the states that ban it, most have only been in the last 30 years. And I have been telling our colleagues here that ‘oh no, corporal punishment has not been used in the States for at least 50 years.’ I found horror stories of ’legal’ punishment in our country--so much for self-righteous indignation.
sharon
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