#Arkansas high school students choose to be hit with paddle as punishment for walking out of school to protest gun violence

https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/03/16/arkansas-teen-confirms-mothers-account-of-school-paddling-after-gun-protest/

The mentality behind #corporalpunishment in schools is on display in the following article. There were 21,477 instances of this type of punishment in Arkansas during the 2013-2014 school year.

http://katv.com/archive/ar-schools-use-corporal-punishment-more-than-22000-times

@muninn I’ve got a picture in my head of this being threatened against me and me getting a group of students together saying “if you attempt to hit us or any other student we will defend ourselves”. (Though I know reality is always messier and I’d imagine them doing something stupid to escalate things in response)