alt.education

cary@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
>> Well, when I was a kid, my parents spanked me when they felt I needed it.
>> Somebody somewhere at sometime challenged a parent's right ot spank, the
>> court ruled that spanking was intolerable and the legislature created a law
>> to codeify the ruling.
>
>Oh? Could you be a bit more citive than "somebody somewhere at
>sometime" on that one? I'd be most intested to hear of
>such a law.

As of last November there was no such law. I don't know the fate of
the Massachusetts bill cited, but it clearly is not merely codifying a
court decision in any case.
http://i.abcnews.com/GMA/story?id=3924024

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