What court case determined “reasonableness” regarding the use of physical punishment of students by teachers, after one student was beaten by 20 strokes with a wooden paddle and another was beaten by 50 strokes?

What would be an ideal response?


This was a determination of reasonableness made in Ingraham vs. Wright (1977) where, the State of Florida Statue specified the punishment was not to be " degrading or unduly severe."

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a. epiphysis b. ligaments c. cartilage d. joints e. diaphysis f. bones g. red marrow h. All of the above.

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The _______ _______ _______ handles 82 percent of indigent criminal cases

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The ABO blood typing system is currently used in criminal trials:

a. to exclude a person as a suspect because his/her blood does not match the ABO type of blood found at the crime scene. b. to conclusively establishes that the blood found at the scene of the crime came from the suspect. c. to confirm DNA testing correctly identified the perpetrator of the crime. d. ABO blood typing is no longer admissible in criminal court

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