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Echo Releases Map Depicting Incidents of Corporal Punishment

Southern Echo released a color coded map illustrating the changes by school district from the 2009-2010 school year to the 2010-2011 school year in the use of corporal punishment – i.e. the number of occasions on which teachers or administrators beat students with a hard instrument.

For each district that provided data to the MS Dept. of Education we have color-coded the data for 09-10 and 10-11 on the map. We have also shown on the map the difference in the number of student beatings from 09-10 to 10-11. Overall 67 districts reported a decrease in the number of student beatings from 09-10 to 10-11. Overall 33 districts reported an increase in the number of student beatings from 09-10 to 10-11.

Tags: corporal punishment, mississippi, public education, safe schools, school environment

This article was posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 6:47 pm and is filed under News.