After a hard freeze of 30 years of right-wing policy initiatives, here's a sign of a turning tide.
A new state has finally joined the 30 or so that have outlawed beating kids in public schools. Precious little progress has been made on this front since the '80s, but today, New Mexico finally broke the logjam by putting away the paddle.
Pay attention, Kentucky!
Pay attention, Indiana!
Pay attention, Congress!
What's really surprising is that in New Mexico it's actually a Republican governor who signed the paddling ban into law (even though most Republicans in the legislature oppose the ban). This is about as unexpected as when Kentucky rejected the pseudoephedrine bill.
I guess now even some Republicans realize they can't win by supporting hitting schoolchildren.
Hopefully the next step will be a federal ban on paddling in schools.
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