Oklahoma lawmaker cites Bible while voting to allow corporal punishment for kids with disabilities

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Oklahoma lawmaker cites Bible while voting to allow corporal punishment for kids with disabilities
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One Oklahoma lawmaker, who voted in favor of continuing to allow schools to use corporal punishment on some students with disabilities, cited the Bible, claiming that “God’s word is higher than all the so-called experts.”

who received corporal punishment in 2017-2018.

“It teaches the child that they have no rights, that they’re a bad person, and that there’s no room for them to learn to change or to grow on their own." "I think when corporal punishment, unfortunately, is used, it’s often used because the people who are in charge don’t really know anything about special education and about special needs," she adds., several families interviewed shared that"episodes of corporal punishment directly preceded children’s regression in developmental terms," including one 7-year-old child with autism.

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