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Harry Reid: If a teacher spanks, beats--whatever the term we want to use--a student, he is doing that under the confines, and under…

On the recordMay 9, 2001
If a teacher spanks, beats--whatever the term we want to use--a student, he is doing that under the confines, and under the direction of the State law, in effect. What we want to say is that any acts of teachers that are negligent that do not apply to their administering corporal punishment, we agree with the Senator from Kentucky. I don't think there is any hindrance on our part of State law. If the State has corporal punishment, fine. The State of Nevada outlawed corporal punishment in 1993. But that was up to the State legislature. I didn't do that.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Discussing the implications of state laws on corporal punishment in schools.

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