At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”
This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting
The handbook details how the punishment will be meted out: sensibly, “and applied only to the student’s buttocks in such a manner that there will be no permanent effects.”
It puts limits on the frequency: “No more than three licks and one paddling a day.”
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