Paddling Allowed...A Southern/Black Family Speciality?

 

States where school paddling is till allowed? And why does it seem to be such a Southern Phenom?

Washington Post story HERE.

And there is MORE physical punishment among black families:

A 2015 Pew Research Center survey showed that in the U.S., Black families use physical methods to punish their children twice as often as White or Latinx families. “Black parents have legitimate fears about the safety of their children,” writes Stacey Patton, professor at Howard University and author of Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won’t Save Black America. “And the overwhelming majority believe physical punishment is necessary to keep Black children out of the streets, out of prison, or out of police officers’ sight…a belief [that], however heartfelt, is wrong.” She asserts that physical punishment is not a Black cultural tradition; it’s racial trauma.

(SOURCE: HERE.

 

RED states allow school physical punishment.