Mother fights boys-only corporal punishment policy

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'A Middle Tennessee mother is fighting a corporal punishment policy at her son’s high school.

She said it’s not the hitting she’s concerned with, but who is receiving the punishment.

Misty Kilburn said her son came home from Lawrence County High School with a letter stating the teacher in his construction trade class was going to reinstate corporal punishment due to misbehavior.

Kilburn said she was about to sign it until she learned it only applied to one gender.

The note reads in part: “Due to interruptions and discipline problems in trade classes, we are going to reinstate corporal punishment.”

Kilburn didn’t have a problem with the note, but then her son told her something else.

“The girls were sent into another classroom and the boys were the ones who had to write this out, and the girls were not to be included on the corporal punishment,” she said.'