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Published: August 20, 2008
Study: Minorities more likely to be paddled
WASHINGTON (AP) - Paddlings, swats, licks. A quarter of a million schoolchildren got them last year — and blacks, American Indians and kids with disabilities got a disproportionate share of the punishment, according to a study by a human rights group.

Even little kids can be paddled. Heather Porter, who lives in Crockett , Texas , was startled to hear her little boy, then 3, say he'd been spanked at school. Port...

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