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Mississippi School Districts Corporal Punishment Incidents:
2009-2010 to 2010-2011 School Years
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Corporal Punishment (CP) in MS School Districts
Incidents of CP; Whether CP Policy in Student Handbook
Incidents of Corporal Punishment Increased
Incidents of Corporal Punishment Decreased
No Data reported - CP Policy is in Student Handbook
No Data reported - No CP Policy in Student Handbook
No Data Reported - No Student Handbook Available
Data Sources:
Geospatial Boundary Data for MS School Districts comes from the
U.S. Geological Survey by way of the U.S. Census Bureau's web site.
MS Dept of Ed.
This map examines the practice and policy of corporal punishment (CP) in MS
School Districts. The map is color coded to show five different classifications
of MS school districts regarding their use of corporal punishment:
1) PURPLE: In these districts, the use of corporal punishment increased
from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011.
2) BLUE: In these districts, the use of corporal punishment decreased
from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011.
3) PINK: In 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 thirteen districts did not report
incidents of corporal punishment to the MS Dept. of Education,
but each district HAS an express policy which permits the
use of corporal punishment according to the most recently
available Student Handbook (typically but not
exclusively the 2011-2012 student handbook).
4) GREEN: In 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 eleven
districts did not report incidents of corporal
punishment to the MS Dept. of Education,
but these districts DO NOT have an express
policy permitting the use of corporal
punishment according to the most recently
available student handbook.
5) GRAY: In 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
seventeen districts did not report incidents
of corporal punishment to the MS Dept.
of Education, and we were unable to
obtain a recent student handbook to
determine whether these districts have
a policy concerning corporal punishment.
The 3 Agricultural High Schools are
not included in the visual map because
they do not have discrete physical jurisdictions
that school districts have. These districts had
no reported corporal punishment incidents.
Coahoma AHS allows corporal punishment in
its student handbook.
Forrest AHS has no corporal punishment policy
in its student handbook.
Hinds AHS's student handbook was unavailable.
This map relies in part on data obtained
from the MS Dept. of Education and the
Jackson, MS Clarion Ledger.
We obtained corporal punishment data for
108 of 152 MS School Districts. For
each of these districts we have provided
three numbers.
The BLUE number repesents the number of
reported corporal punishment incidents for the
2009 - 2010 school year.
The RED number represents the number of
reported corporal punishment incidents for the
2010 - 2011 school year.
The GREEN number represents the increase or decrease
in reported corporal punishment incidents from
the first school year to the second school year.
41 Districts did not report CP data to the MS Dept.
of Education. Therefore, in these districts no
numbers are provided.
Overall, 67 of 108 school districts reported a
reduction in the incidents of corporal
punishment by an accumulated total of
10,975 beatings.
Overall 33 of 108 school districts
reported an increase in the
incidents of corporal punishment
by an accumulated total of 4,862
beatings.
Therefore there was a reported
net decrease in the number of
reported incidents of
corporal punishment
between the 2009-2010 and
2010-2011 school years
by an accumulated total of
6,113 beatings.
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