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Editorial: It s time to take the paddles away USA TODAY Network-Florida There are 19 school districts in Florida that still use corporal punishment as a means of disciplining students. That is 19 too many. Let us be clear about this: “Corporal punishment,” “whipping,” “spanking,” “paddling” or whatever other phrase that is conjured up as a handy, deceptive euphemism for “physically beating and humiliating children” should have no place in modern-day Florida. There should be no reason to countenance its use in any school environment in modern-day Florida. Not in any fashion. Not in any form. Period. And if the administrators in the 19 Florida school districts that still embrace corporal punishment won’t change their backward policies and views, it’s time for enlightened parents in those 19 communities to bring common decency and common sense to bear. It s time for them to speak up and demand an end to the archaic and dehumanizing practic

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