A Jackson, Mississippi, TV station is reporting that public schools in Greenville, Mississippi, might soon allow students who misbehave to be paddled.
WLBT posted an Associated Press story quoting the district’s superintendent that parents could sign a form at the beginning of the school year giving the school permission to paddle their children starting 2018.
But a trustee of the district is raising questions, noting that the proposed policy doesn’t specify where the student can be paddled, or how many times or how hard.
The story said schools Superintendent Janice Page-Johnson noted that there are other disciplinary measures the district will use for students whose parents won’t authorize corporal punishment.
The story said Mississippi law lets each district set its own corporal punishment policy.