EDITORIALS CALLING FOR AN END TO CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

Listed below are several other of the many newspaper editorials around the country that have called for a complete end to school corporal punishment.

National Newspapers:
USA Today: Let's spare the rod to protect children. 8/23/1989
USA Today: Don't let schools spank our kids. 8/22/1990, p. 8A.
USA Today: Violence begets violence. 3/14/1994, p.12A

Alabama:
Huntsville Times: Stop school beatings: Paddling is archaic and ineffective, and local schools that use it should stop. 12/19/2000

Connecticut:
Hartford Courant: When will child beating stop? 8/27/1988, p. B-8.

Florida:
Inverness Chronicle: Abandon barbaric practice of paddling. 7/21/1988
Inverness Chronicle: Schools should ban paddling. 7/9/1989
Inverness Chronicle: Teachers have no business paddling.8/21/1989
Stuart News: End corporal punishment. 7/13/1988

Georgia:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Lawmakers Should End School Paddlings. 10/14/1989
Marietta Journal: Stop spanking our schoolchildren. 7/16/1988

Indiana:
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: Spare the child. 11/7/1988
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette: Paddling -- no substitute for discipline. 8/22/1994
Indianapolis Star: Ban the paddle from schools. 3/22/2004

Kentucky:
Jackson Times: Is physical punishment proper in the schools? 7/2/1987

Louisiana:
Shreveport Times: Time for lawmakers to ditch school paddling. 4/11/2008

Minnesota:
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Spare the rod in public schools. 4/8/1989
St. Croix Valley Press: No Spanking. 4/5/1989
St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch: Schools should spare the rod, serve child. 4/6/1989

Missouri:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Students are not for hitting. 10/4/1989

North Carolina:
Burlington Times News: Government-sanctioned beating of school children is wrong. 9/23/2007
The Charlotte Observer: Stop Paddling Students. 2/10/2005
Fayetteville Observer: Our View: Ineffective, inconsistent school spanking practice should be banned. 4/4/2007
News and Observer: Paddle policy: A push to ban corporal punishment in public schools deserves high marks. It's time the state stopped spanking students. 3/19/2007
Winston Salem Journal: Stop Spanking, 3/21/2007

Ohio:
Akron Beacon Journal: Respect for students. 8/28/1987, p. A6.
Akron Beacon Journal: Paddling in school. 5/17/1988, p. A6.
Celina Daily Standard: Toward a Paddling Ban. 6/2/1988
Chillicothe Gazette: It's time to spare the rod in schools. March, 1988
Cleveland Plain Dealer: Making teachers behave. 1/30/1989
Cincinnati Enquirer: Paddling: The time has come to discard this punishment in our schools. 3/23/1987, p. A-8.
Cincinnati Post: Good riddance to paddling. 5/11/1988
Ironton Tribune: Time for a Change; Schools should eye paddling punishment, 12/22/1997
Middletown Journal: Paddling is a badge of shame for Ohio. 6/4/1988
Newark Advocate: Corporal punishment becomes school option. 2/5/1985, p.4.

Oklahoma:
Tulsa World: Paddle Not. 11/20/1989, p. A-14.

Pennsylvania:
Pittsburg Post-Gazette: 'Spare the rod' revisited. 9/10/2001

Tennessee:
Nashville Tennessean: Bottom Line on Paddling. 10/30/2004
Kingsport Times-News: Time to take another look at corporal punishment. 3/2/2004
Memphis Commercial Appeal: Expel the paddles from public schools. 6/27/2004
Memphis Commercial Appeal: Another chance to ban paddles. 10/10/2004

Texas:
Dallas Morning News: Corporal punishment: Dallas schools can find better alternatives. 1/3/2000
Houston Post: An end to paddling? 3/15/1989, p.A-22.
San Antonio Light: Corporal punishment should be abolished. 2/27/1989

West Virginia:
Charelston Gazette: Not hitting. 10/18/1988
Wheeling Intelligencer: Paddling Must Be Banned. 2/21/1987

Washington, D.C.:
Washington Post: Child Abuse at Home and in School. 3/25/1988, p. A-24.