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In some US schools, resistance to ending corporal punishment 

Local districts prohibit use despite state statute allowing corporal discipline

Two licks with a wooden paddle in the principal’s office was the price 11-year-old Kaley Zacher, of Dexter, Georgia, paid for ignoring warnings about falling behind in her school work, according to the Associated Press.

Rules are rules, said her mother, Kimberly Zacher, so why shouldn’t the punishment be the same as at home when her daughter falls out of line?

“What we instill in our children is i...