Corporal Punishment

I haven't thought about corporal punishment much, but this article from the Post surprised me a lot. A few pieces from the article are below:

• In the US an estimated 225,000 students received corporal punishment in 2006
• Nearly a quarter of cases occurred in Texas
• Corporal punishment remains legal in 20 states, mostly in the South, but its use is diminishing
• Ohio ended it last year
  
• A movement for a federal ban is afoot
• A report last year found that students with disabilities were disproportionately subjected to corporal punishment, sometimes in direct response to behavioral problems that were a result of their disabilities
• Many educators and psychologists say that positive tools are far more effective for discouraging misbehavior