Comment on School spankings just made me more determined not to get caught

In 1982, my middle school administered more corporal punishment in one day than some Sullivan and Hawkins county schools administered in an entire school year— according to a recent state comptroller’s report. In fact, during two of the three years used in the comptroller’s study, there were zero reported instances of corporal punishment being used in the sampled Hawkins and Sullivan county schools. Apparently school administrators know something here that they didn’t know in Northern Illinois in the early 1980s because at my elementary and middle schools, children were paddled pretty much on a daily basis.