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# FLORIDA - Paddling Isn't Funny, Letter to the Sun-Sentinel from
Jordan Riak, April 13, 2005

# ARKANSAS - Man in spanking case gets suspended sentence , Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, April 5, 2005

# ARKANSAS - Corporal Punishment Ineffective, Administrators Say --
Most Districts Allow Paddling But Don't Use It, By Matt McGowan, The
Morning News, April 2, 2005

# TEXAS - Dallas School District: Paddling out, uniforms in, By Toya
Lynn Stewart, Dallas Morning News, March 31, 2005

# GENEVA - Ramadan calls for a moratorium on corporal punishment, The
Muslim News, March 30, 2005

# Members of the pro-corporal punishment scientific community -- all
four of them -- are jubilant today, Source: Ananova.com, March 29, 2005

# MISSISSIPPI - One Toxic Middle School in Mississippi, Letter from a
Substitute Teacher to Project NoSpank, March 22, 2005

# L MISSOURI - Boonville looks to sell old academy, By Steve Rock, The
Kansas City Star, March 21, 2005

# PENNSYLVANIA - State school board suggests ban on corporal
punishment, By Gabrielle Banks, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 18, 2005

# US - To paddle or not to paddle? It's still not clear in US schools.,
By Stacy A. Teicher, The Christian Science Monitor, March 17, 2005

# CANADA - A Korean father's lesson on raising cane, By Petti Fong,
Globe and Mail, March 12, 2005

# MISSOURI - Around the Ozarks: Nixa, Missouri Board votes to to end
corporal punishment, News Leader, March 12, 2005

# NORTH CAROLINA - Union school board flunks, EDITORIAL Charlotte
Observer, March 12, 2005

# TEXAS - Texas Rep. Alma Allen's HB 2413, a bill to ban corporal
punishment in Texas schools, March 11, 2005

# CANADA - Letter to Project NoSpank from Corine Robertshaw of Repeal
43 Committee, March 11, 2005

# ILLINOIS - School orders mom to spank son, or else, By Diane Rado,
Chicago Tribune, March 6, 2005

# Jordan Riak's letter to the Detroit News, about Nolan Finley's
article, March 6, 2005

# Paddles might work better in classrooms than Commandments, By Nolan
Finley, Detroit News, March 6, 2005

# L UTAH - Group Seeks Probe Into Boading School, By The Associated
Press, KSL TV, March 6, 2005

# NORTH CAROLINA - Board to mull corporal punishment, By John Tompkins
- Monroe, Enquirer-Journal, March 6, 2005

# MISSOURI - Man [beats and bruises child with belt at school] Is
Accused Of Shoving Counselor At His Son's School, By Susan Weich,
Post-Dispatch, March 5, 2005