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Missouri school district reinstates spanking as punishment: ‘We’ve had people actually thank us’

USA Today

By Claudette Riley
Springfield News-Leader
August 24, 2022
 

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A school district in Missouri announced it will reinstate spanking this school year – but with a parental caveat.

Cassville School School District superintendent Merlyn Johnson said he did not take the job a year ago with a plan to reinstate corporal punishment – a disciplinary measure the 1,900-student Barry County district abandoned in 2001.

“But it is something that has happened on my watch and I’m OK with it,” Johnson said.

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