Three students in a rural part of Arkansas will allegedly be smacked for participating in Wednesday’s national walkout protesting against gun violence.
Despite that drastic punishment, one student’s mother, Jerusalem J. Greer, applauded her son and the other students at Greenbrier Public School for their defiant protest following the deadly shooting that killed 15 students and two adults at Stoneman Douglas High School last month in Parkland, Florida.
According to Greenbrier Public School’s official policy, the school board “authorizes the use of corporal punishment to be administered in accordance with this policy by the Superintendent or his/her designated staff members who are required to have a state-issued license as a condition of their employment.”
The handbook says that before students are smacked they are to be “given an explanation of the reasons for the punishment and be given an opportunity to refute the charges. administered privately, i.e. out of the sight and hearing of other students.”
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“The ‘swats’ were not painful or injuring,” the student wrote of the punishment they chose over in-school suspension. “It was nothing more than a temporary sting on my thighs.”
“The dean-of-students did stress however that not all punishments like this ended this way,” the continued.
Per school policy, the teen’s mother, writer Jerusalem Greer, had to approve of the punishment. On Wednesday, Greer said on Twitter that she and the parents of the other two students punished for taking part in the protest approved of their children’s difficult choice.
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