Disabled students face higher rates of corporal punishment

Wed, 08/12/2009 - 13:48
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In some 20 states across United States, teachers are physically abusing students with disabilities.  That is according to a new report from Human Rights Watch and the ACLU.  About 30 states have banned corporal punishment, which often includes paddling a student with a wooden board.  But researchers found that teachers and school administrators often go further and beat, slap, pinch and drag students. FSRN spoke to  Alice Farmer, authored of the ACLU- Human Rights Watch Report.

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