Corporal punishment in NY schools: Over 1,600 instances reported in five years State investigators have substantiated more than 1,600 instances of corporal punishment in New York schools over the last five years, The Times Union in Albany reported Sunday. A substantial number of the complaints were in New York City public schools, the newspaper reported. Other incidents included a substitute teacher in Watertown who was fired and arrested for grabbing a student by the throat and forcing him against a wall and a teaching assistant in Syracuse who was transferred and retrained for spanking a non-verbal student. Corporal punishment is generally banned and can be classified as child abuse. In all, the ... Continue reading... https://www.syracuse.com/schools/20...er-1600-instances-reported-in-five-years.html Find in Internet Archives [google]Corporal punishment in NY schools: Over 1,600 instances reported in five years[/google]
