{"id":21891,"date":"2014-04-23T07:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=21891"},"modified":"2014-04-23T07:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T11:55:46","slug":"marion-county-school-board-reverses-course-on-paddling-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/04\/23\/marion-county-school-board-reverses-course-on-paddling-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Marion County School Board Reverses Course On Paddling Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5662\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The paddle at Holmes County High School in Bonifay, Fla. was made by students in woodshop class four years ago.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/CP-1-paddle-12.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5662\" alt=\"The paddle at Holmes County High School in Bonifay, Fla. was made by students in woodshop class four years ago.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/CP-1-paddle-12-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/CP-1-paddle-12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/CP-1-paddle-12-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/CP-1-paddle-12-220x165.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/03\/CP-1-paddle-12-138x103.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Sarah Gonzalez \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The paddle at Holmes County High School in Bonifay, Fla. was made by students in woodshop class four years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Marion County&#8217;s school board has eliminated corporal punishment of students &#8212; just one year after the board reinstated physical discipline.<\/p>\n<p>School board member Ron Crawford said public reaction to last year&#8217;s decision was overwhelming, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocala.com\/article\/20140422\/ARTICLES\/140429886\/1001\/NEWS01?Title=School-Board-votes-to-ban-paddling&amp;tc=ar\">Joe Callahan with the <em>Ocala Star-Banner<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reversal was led by School Board member Ron Crawford, who last year cast the swing vote to re-establish corporal punishment after a three-year absence. On Tuesday, Crawford said he had to listen to his constituents.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Crawford asked that the words \u201ccorporal punishment\u201d be removed from the 2014-15 code of student conduct, stating he has received only negative comments from parents after the district reinstated it last April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never seen such a (negative) response in all the years I have been on the board,\u201d said Crawford, adding that everywhere he goes, he hears: \u201cWhat were you thinking?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We took a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/school-corporal-punishment\/\">which schools use corporal punishment, and why,<\/a> in 2012. Don&#8217;t miss the story about <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/03\/15\/some-florida-student-make-the-paddles-used-to-discipline-classmates\/\">Holmes County High School students making the paddles<\/a> used for corporal punishment of classmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marion County&#8217;s school board has eliminated corporal punishment of students &#8212; just one year after the board reinstated physical discipline. School board member Ron Crawford said public reaction to last year&#8217;s decision was overwhelming, Joe Callahan with the Ocala Star-Banner reports: The reversal was led by School Board member Ron Crawford, who last year cast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1122,1052,1123],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21894,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891\/revisions\/21894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}