Missouri school district adopts opt-in corporal punishment policy
CNN
A school district in southwest Missouri adopted an opt-in policy this school year allowing corporal punishment of students "only in reasonable form" and when "all other alternative means of discipline have failed," according to the district's website.
The district did not clarify how it defines "reasonable," though the school handbook states the punishment will be administered "only by swatting buttocks with a paddle."
The policy was adopted by the Cassville R-IV School District in mid-June and defines corporal punishment as "the use of physical force as a method of correcting student behavior." The district's school board voted to permit corporal punishment "as a measure of correction or of maintaining discipline and order" in its schools.
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