Corporal punishment

When I think of the conversations we have on Twitter about the use of technology in education, I wonder why we don't have this conversation more often; it is not okay to hit children, especially when those children are not your own (I don't like this qualifier, but I recognize that parents have more rights than we do as teachers, whether or not I agree with what they do with those rights).

 

We need to get the places in red below to codify this in law 'cause for some reason, they haven't yet.

States which allow corporal punishment
(Source: Wikipedia)

About David

David is a mathematics teacher and a learning specialist for technology at Stratford Hall in Vancouver, BC. He has been teaching since 2002, and has worked in Brooklyn, London, and Bangkok before moving back to Canada. He has his Masters degree in Educational Technology from UBC, and is the co-author of a mathematics textbook. He has been published in ISTE's Leading and Learning, Educational Technology Solutions, The Software Developers Journal, The Bangkok Post and Edutopia. He blogs with the Cooperative Catalyst, and is the Assessment group facilitator for Edutopia. He has also helped organize the first Edcamp in Canada, and TEDxKIDS@BC.

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Corporal Punisment Map

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that on this map, the USA has ended up with a red bottom :)

That's funny.

That's funny.

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