School-Sponsored Violence Against Children: When Will We End Corporal Punishment?

By Anthony Cody October 29, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Living In Dialogue" - The shocking video of an African American high school girl being violently grabbed and slammed to the ground has been seen and shared millions of times over the past few days. Most are sickened by what we see. This incident is sparking a much needed discussion over the use of police to respond to disciplinary issues within a school. Police tend to use force, and students they deal with become criminalized, setting patterns that continue into adulthood. Unarmed school safety officers can be far more effective, as I saw in my 18 years in the classroom in Oakland. At our middle school of...