{"id":20471,"date":"2013-10-23T13:49:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T17:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20471"},"modified":"2013-10-31T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T17:11:47","slug":"to-thwack-or-not-to-thwack-corporal-punishment-is-not-just-floridas-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/10\/23\/to-thwack-or-not-to-thwack-corporal-punishment-is-not-just-floridas-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"To Thwack Or Not To Thwack; Corporal Punishment Is Not Just Florida\u2019s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20472\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Paddling is allowed in schools in 19 states.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/paddle-hin255.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20472\" alt=\"Paddling is allowed in schools in 19 states.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/paddle-hin255-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/paddle-hin255-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/10\/paddle-hin255.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">hin255 \/ freedigitalphotos.com<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paddling is allowed in schools in 19 states.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida is on a shrinking list of states that still allow corporal punishment in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Education Week\u2019s Alyssa Morones looked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2013\/10\/23\/09spanking_ep.h33.html?tkn=YXWFzcSmHU20YmNHCJ7CspZpfqVm0ffGuZlB&amp;cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1\">how states are grappling with corporal punishment:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even as an increasing number of districts and states abolish the practice, corporal punishment remains a legal form of discipline in 19 states, most of them in the South, according to the Center for Effective Discipline, a nonprofit based in Columbus, Ohio, that provides educational information on corporal punishment and alternatives to its use. That&#8217;s a decrease from 2004, when 22 states permitted the practice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Numbers collected by the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s office for civil rights and released in March 2008 showed that <a href=\"http:\/\/ocrdata.ed.gov\/\"><b>223,190 students were physically punished<\/b><\/a>\u00a0in American schools in 2006, the most recent year available.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->In Florida, it\u2019s up to school districts to decide whether or not to allow physical discipline of students.<\/p>\n<p>StateImpact Florida has been following the on-again, off-again authorization of <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/04\/24\/corporal-punishment-will-return-to-marion-county-elementary-schools\/\">corporal punishment in Marion County<\/a> schools (currently: on).\u00a0You can find out more about Florida\u2019s history with physical discipline\u2014who does it, how they do it, what the rules are\u2014by checking out our <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/school-corporal-punishment\/\">series on corporal punishme<\/a>nt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida is on a shrinking list of states that still allow corporal punishment in schools. Education Week\u2019s Alyssa Morones looked at how states are grappling with corporal punishment: Even as an increasing number of districts and states abolish the practice, corporal punishment remains a legal form of discipline in 19 states, most of them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":20472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1122,1123],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20540,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20471\/revisions\/20540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}