US students are paddled for behaviors that are direct symptoms of their disabilities
Evidence
The comprehensive documentation of the disproportionate use of school corporal punishment against students with disabilities in the seventeen permitting states. Documents specific cases of students with autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, and other disabilities being paddled for behavior that was a direct symptom of their disability. Establishes the demographic reality that school corporal punishment is concentrated on the most vulnerable student populations. — , The Rod and the Child, 11230
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: children with disabilities punished for the very traits of their disability as a civil rights story.