Paddling is not uncommon in 19 states. In the 1977 Supreme Court case Ingraham v. Wright, the court found that spanking in schools does not violate students' rights, specifically the Eighth Amendment's "cruel and unusual punishment" clause and the Fourteenth Amendment's right to due process. However, in Texas lawmakers do give the parents the right to exempt their children from corporal punishment with a sign waiver.
These states still allow it:
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia (Atlanta banned)
- Idaho
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- South Carolina
- Tennessee (Memphis banned)
- Texas (Houston banned)
- Wyoming
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