Georgia School Policy <br />Allows Spanking With <br />24-Inch Wooden Paddle The east Georgia charter school called Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics teaches kindergarten through <br />ninth grade. The school introduced a new paddling policy <br />this year in which children who misbehave <br />would be spanked with a wooden paddle. Parents who do not agree to the policy could see their child suspended for up to five days in the event <br />they "misbehave." The policy states a school administrator <br />will take the student "behind closed doors." The student will then be required to place their hands on their knees <br />or furniture. The student will then "be struck on the buttocks with a paddle" measuring a maximum of 24 inches long. An adult witness <br />would be present 19 states either allow corporal punishment or have no laws against <br />the practice. In a 1977 judgement, the <br />U.S. Supreme Court ruled <br />5-4 that corporal <br />punishment in schools Some legal scholars called the ruling <br />"an apparent low point in American <br />teacher-student relations."
