Black students are paddled at twice the rate of white students.
Evidence
The racial disparity has been documented specifically: Black students are punished at approximately twice the rate of white students in states that permit corporal punishment, even after controlling for other behavioral factors. Students with disabilities — including students with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and emotional disturbance — are punished at disproportionately high rates, in settings where the developmental and neurological evidence about the futility and harm of corporal punishment for these populations is particularly well established. — , The Rod and the Child, 9441
Categorization
- SEED: Angle for an article: the gap between Ingraham’s ‘theoretical safeguards’ and the operational reality disproportionality — the law protects the district, not the student.
- XREF: connects to: US schools paddle roughly 160,000 students annually with Black students struck twice as often — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 11232
Related
- US schools paddle roughly 160,000 students annually with Black students struck twice as often (similarity 0.94)
- US students are paddled for behaviors that are direct symptoms of their disabilities (similarity 0.84)
- Racial disparity in school punishment is structural and not explained by behavior or poverty (similarity 0.81)
- Suspension fails to reduce misbehavior and actually predicts its own recurrence while harming academics (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- US schools paddle roughly 160,000 students annually with Black students struck twice as often
#corroborates(0.95) — , The Rod and the Child, 11232