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Children's advocates are fighting to shield students with disabilities from corporal punishment in schools.
Representatives from Action for Children North Carolina and the North Carolina Association of Educators urged lawmakers to ban the practice at Wednesday's Education Legislative Oversight Committee.
"If there's even one child being hit, then we believe it's inappropriate, but particularly inappropriate for our exceptional children population," said Sheri Strickland, president of NCAE.
Action For Children released a report showing that spanking was used about 1,400 times in 26 North Carolina public school districts in the 2008-2009 school year. Click here to read the full report.
Their data shows that between Oct. 2009 and Jan. 2010, more than half of the corporal punishment in the state took place in Burke, Nash-Rocky Mount, and Robeson school districts.
Some lawmakers said they would need more information before they could support a ban. The state does not collect data on the administration of corporal punishment.
"Fourteen hundred times that a paddle was administered, you don't know if they were special ed or not special ed, what precipitated it," said Rep. Curtis Blackwood, a Union County Republican.
In 2009, a bill that would have allowed parents to opt-out of corporal punishment failed in the Senate.
Comments
By myrak on 03/13 10:17 PM
Giving potential sex offenders the right to take a child private and hit them is barbaric. Hundreds of teachers/coaches in NC have been charged with children/student sex offenses. There is a website devoted to the dangers of allowing edcators to hit a child at nospank.net including photos of the injuries. Hitting a child tells the child its okay to hit. Someone needs to focus on bring NC education out of the pits. Way too many ineffective self absorbed teachers and school board members. No Child Left Behind a miserable failure. Lots of websites out there identifies sex offenders in schools badbadteacher.com teachertrash.com check it out. Do you really want these people to have the legal right to hit a child?
By Rick Mitchell on 03/13 02:43 PM
get a clue from educational facilities like Fork Union Military Academy. No nonsense is allowed in the classroom or anywhere else on campus; the faculty is fully in charge at all times. Why? They have the authority and support to do what is necessary to maintain total control. This control results in a better learning experience and higher grades for the majority of the students.
By myrak on 03/11 08:29 PM
There are more and more teachers arrested for child sex abuse of children and students; so why would the NCGenAssbly give other potential child sex offenders the right to take a child in private and hit them? Children should be the priority and hitting a child teaches the child that hitting is okay. There is a website dedicated to this issue nospank.net and the photos of excessive corporal punishment are horrifying. Special needs children being hit by a teacher who has no idea what that action could result in is beyond insane. Not surprising that child abuse and child sex abuse is rampant in NC. Children should be valued and safeguarded. Think about it, so many arrests of teachers for student sex abuse - do you want them to have the legal right to hit a child?
By AreYouSerious? on 03/10 06:37 PM
I thought this practice was stopped years ago. What kind of backwards educational systems are operating in these counties? I support corporal punishment administered by PARENTS, not school administrators. I wish an administrator WOULD paddle my children. The ramifications of such would not be nice at all.
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