A South Texas school district has approved a new disciplinary policy that allows paddling as a means of punishing students.
The Three Rivers School District will now let a principal or behavior coordinator paddle a misbehaving student with a parent's permission, KHOU-TV reported.
A student could now receive a paddling for minor incidents, like breaking classroom rules.
The new paddling policy reverses a previous code that prohibited corporal punishment.
Three Rivers isn't the only school district in Texas that allows corporal punishment.
There are 26 independent districts that also allow it, according to KHOU.
Corporal punishment in schools is still legal in 19 states, the Washington Examiner reported, mostly in the Midwest, South and Southwest.
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