Three strikes and a clout: U.S. school brings back the paddle

The Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics, which takes children from the age of five to 15, asked parents before the start of term this week for consent to paddle their children if they were caught breaching rules for the third time.

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Jody Boulineau, the school’s superintendent, told local reporters: “In this school we take discipline very seriously.”

Georgia is one of 19 states that allows corporal punishment.

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