Special Needs Students Are Being Beaten in State Schools.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/8/11/education/11punish.html As some people, especially in countries which have officialy banned corporal punishment, might not know, children in certain states in the U.S.A. are still subject to physical beatings, like with paddles, for various disciplinary infractions. Paddles, in case any of my readers might not know, are actually more like squared off wooden broad swords. Children are smacked with the flat side of it. From what I've read, this implement was originaly used on black slaves, because the masters wished to inflict the most pain possible, without needlessly shedding blood. In predominately muslim countries, women are still permitted to be hit by there husbands. And most notabley, in Singapore, convicted criminals may be caned. Yet in a supposedly free country, like America, which prides itself in being civilised, children are still permitted to be hurt by adults whom are in posistions of power over them, like parents or teachers. In my personal opinion, this is largely due to the fact that we are still largely a conservative christian country. And so just as Islamic countries condone domestic violence against wives who displease there husbands, we still enable people to assault minors. Now I know that not all muslims, and christians, choose to use brute force to correct the misbehaviour of there household subjects. But as long as public policy is influenced by religious statutes, I fear that people will be subject to abuses such as this. So therefore I feel that nations need to be governed by natural law, instead of by divine right. All indivisuals, of all ages and sexes, should be allowed to have freedom from fear, and feel secure in there person. Even behind the "Bible curtain", of the American South.