ANTI-CORPORAL PUNISHMENT EDITORIALS

  1. Anti-smacking bill passes by landslide with only three MPs voting no, The New Zealand Herald, May 3, 2007

  2. Democracy will survive the smacks, The New Zealand Herald, April 2, 2007

  3. Ban the paddle: N.C. lawmakers should prohibit corporal punishment, The Charlotte Observer, March 23, 2007

  4. Stop Spanking, Winston-Salem Journal, March 21, 2007

  5. Paddle Policy: A push to ban corporal punishment in public schools deserves high marks. It's time the state stopped spanking students, News & Observer (North Carolina), March 19, 2007

  6. Stop paddling students; Lawmakers should ban corporal punishment statewide, The Charlotte Observer, January 4, 2007

  7. Taiwan bans corporal punishment in schools; moves toward being an advanced, nurturing society , Taiwan Journal, December 22, 2006

  8. Schools have alternatives to corporal punishment, Muskogee Phoenix, November 17, 2006

  9. A reevaluation of corporal punishment, [Korea] The Hankyoreh, August 21, 2006

  10. State-sanctioned abuse, St. Petersburg Times, April 9, 2006

  11. Ban the corporal punishment of children , The Manila Times, March 31, 2006

  12. Sparing the rod, Commercial Appeal, September 1, 2005

  13. Union school board flunks, Charlotte Observer, March 12, 2005

  14. Problems with paddling -- Corporal punishment is applied inconsistently, should end, The Charlotte Observer, February 21, 2005

  15. Stop Paddling Students The Charlotte Observer, February 10, 2005

  16. Editorial: Another chance to ban paddles The Commercial Appeal (Tennessee), October 10, 2004

  17. It is time to stop putting children second in the UK and USA, The Lancet, July 17, 2004

  18. Expel the paddles from public schools, Commercial Appeal (Tennessee), June 27, 2004

  19. Sparing the Rod, Memphis Flyer (Tennessee), June 26, 2004

  20. No Spanking Day, Daily News (Sri Lanka), April 30, 2004

  21. Abolish: There is no need for corporal punishment in the public schools, Pacific Daily News (Guam), November 2, 2003

  22. Culture of abuse, The Press, Canterbury, New Zealand, 10 October 2003

  23. Spare the rod, The Statesman (Kolkata, India), July 3, 2003

  24. School system should stop paddling right now, The Jackson Sun, June 1, 2003

  25. End this abuse. Smacking children is always wrong, The Guardian (U.K.), May 3, 2003

  26. The abuse of children is not negotiable, The Globe and Mail (Toronto), March 17, 2003

  27. Put up the paddle, Huntsville Times (Ala.), March 11, 2003

  28. States too slow to spare the child, part with the rod, USA Today, August 22, 2002

  29. Bush wrong on corporal punishment, Chattanooga Times - Free Press, May 22, 2001

  30. Spare the rod--Washington shouldn't encourage corporal punishment, (Pittsburgh) Post-Gazette, May 21, 2001

  31. Breaking the Hickory Stick, The New York Times, May 7, 2001

  32. A lesson learned: Spare the rod, (Thailand) Bangkok Post, September 15, 2000

  33. Maine: Corporal punishment defined, Kennebec Journal / Waterville Morning Sentinel, March 1, 2000

  34. Law shouldn't absolve adults who hit kids, The Toronto Star, December 15, 1997

  35. Corporal Stupidity, San Francisco Chronicle, January 11, 1996

  36. End legal child abuse; stop school paddlings, USA Today, July 18, 1994

  37. Sparing the Child, The New York Times, March 3, 1987

  38. It's a bad lesson to teach our children, Speaking in support of H.B. 1617, California corporal punishment ban, Caroline Wean, Vice President and General Manager of KPIX-TV, 1985 (Allow download time for audio.)

  39. Have We Lost the Children?, The Weekly Journal, Orleans County, Vermont June 27, 1984

  40. Children at School, The New York Times, January 22, 1871


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