DH> A police sergeant in upstate New York, having read some of my
 DH> reporting on corporal punishment in public schools around the country,
 DH> sent me a set of color photographs from a police lab. They were of his
 DH> son, a third-grader.
 DH> The boy had inadvertently yelled out when another student kicked him.
 DH> Having thereby violated the school rule against noisemaking in class,
 DH> he was paddled 12 times on the buttocks by the principal wielding a
 DH> heavy paddle. That afternoon, the same incorrigible boy tripped over a
 DH> desk and again made noise. The principal whacked the kid vigorously
 DH> again.
Aside from the corporal punishment issue, this sounds like an extreme case of 
a child being marked as the "school goat", as I painfully remember.
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