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Texas district’s new policy allows educators of either gender to paddle male, female students - The Washington Post
"Yeah, yeah," you might be thinking while rolling your eyes. "Texas." But then I came across this later in the article.
Boy, just when you think you know your own country.
Like many schools in Texas, “spare the rod and spoil the child” might be considered the motto at Springtown High School. But when two teenage girls there reportedly suffered bruises after being paddled by male assistant principals, some parents complained. They weren’t upset about the punishment itself, but instead that the school violated the policy requiring an educator of the same sex as the student to dole out the paddling.
So the school district has changed its policy — to expand, not abolish, corporal punishment. Board members voted Monday night to let administrators paddle students of the opposite sex, after Superintendent Michael Kelley cited a lack of women administrators to carry out spankings.
"Yeah, yeah," you might be thinking while rolling your eyes. "Texas." But then I came across this later in the article.
Texas is one of 19 states allowing schools to spank students
Boy, just when you think you know your own country.