Milledgeville (GA) Police Handcuff 6-Year-Old Girl for Misbehaving at School

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51. I'm using the legality of corporal punishment as an example

to demonstrate that "touching" a child does not result is some automatic lawsuit.

FWIW, although you may not recall a recent story about it, children are most certainly paddled every day in Georgia schools. The rate of children who received corporal punishment in school in Georgia is relatively low compared to the other 18 states that allow corporal punishment, about 18,000 children a year are paddled in Georgia (compared, for example, to the 48,000 children paddled in Mississippi which has a much lower overall population than Georgia). Let's see, easy math, 180 school days, roughly 100 children a day? The school districts in Georgia in the counties adjacent to where I live are generally not concerned about being sued for simply touching a child - and certainly not for touching in a manner than it is appropriate, professional and protective.