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Republican cites Bible to defend hitting disabled students
Oklahoma State Senator Shane Jett argued a bill seeking to ban using corporal punishment in schools was "in violation of Scripture."
www.newsweek.com
A Republican lawmaker in Oklahoma cited a Bible verse as he argued against a bill seeking to ban corporal punishment being used on disabled students in schools.
State Senator Shane Jett quoted several verses from the Book of Proverbs on Tuesday as he argued that the bill is in "violation of Scripture.".
Newsweek has contacted Jett for further comment via email.
Why It Matters
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 1977 decision that corporal punishment did not fall under the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, leaving it to states to set their own rules.Some 27 states and the District of Columbia have banned corporal punishment in schools, but Oklahoma is among those that still allow it, according to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
An Oklahoma law in 2017 barred the practice on children with the most "significant cognitive disabilities, defining corporal punishment as "the deliberate infliction of physical pain by hitting, paddling, spanking, slapping or any other physical force used as a means of discipline."
The Oklahoma Department of Education in 2020 prohibited schools from using physical force to discipline disabled students, but a bill that would have codified the ban into state law failed to pass last year.