ALL EYES ON MISSISSIPPI

We’ll be in Jackson, MS for our 2023 National Week of Action Against School Pushout! Below are some context-building media to help familiarize you with the landscape and current organizing efforts of DSC member-organizations and grassroots partners throughout the state. We’re supporting their sustained efforts to ban corporal punishment throughout the state. Learn more below.

Op-Ed by Ellen Reddy

Schools Should Ban Corporal Punishment — and Teach Restorative Justice Instead

Op-Ed by Kameisha Smith

Corporal Punishment in Schools: Black Students Suffer Physical Abuse in the Classroom

Excerpt from American Portrait, about Ellen Reddy, an anti-corporal punishment activist who runs the Nollie Jenkins Family Center in Mississippi

American Portrait uses all self-shot, user-submitted video.

Video Credit — Connor Smith

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