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Amite County Wilkinson Co. Poplarville Carroll County Leflore County Jefferson Co. Benoit Franklin County George County Natchez-Adams Claiborne County Leland Webster County Prentiss County Petal Hollandale Clinton North Tippah Tupelo Hancock Humphreys Picayune Pascagoula West Bolivar Kosciusko Moss Point Clay Brookhaven Oxford Pearl River Starkville Cleveland Lumberton Jackson Public Pass Christian Pearl Corinth Gulfport Bay St. Louis Hattiesburg Booneville Madison 1,043 1,050 7 more Quitman 363 437 74 more Alcorn 1 3 2 more Greene County 218 262 44 more Noxubee County 164 239 75 more Perry County 0 21 21 more DeSoto County 3,202 3,233 31 more Walthall Co. 78 103 25 more Lamar County 0 23 23 more Drew 0 38 38 more Aberdeen 181 284 103 more Attala County 959 1,338 379 more Coahoma County 35 65 30 more Marshall County 3 7 4 more Jeff.Davis Co. 88 249 161 more Tishomingo Co. 506 571 65 more West Jasper 1,141 1,181 40 more East Jasper 389 592 203 more Newton County 11 539 528 more Union County 471 614 143 more Canton 6 116 110 more Quitman County 294 1,594 1300 more Sunflower 92 502 410 more West Point 233 269 36 more Shaw 6 55 49 more Holly Springs 656 735 79 more Indianola 0 53 53 more North Bolivar 375 602 227 more Amory 0 4 4 more North Pike 233 472 239 more Pontotoc City 6 18 12 more Columbia 72 92 20 more Okolona 247 253 6 more New Albany 1,324 1,340 16 more Meridian 708 873 165 more Senatobia 245 260 15 more Biloxi 151 290 139 more Long Beach 0 3 3 more Columbus 72 197 125 more Durant 0 1 1 more Mound Bayou 0 50 50 more South Delta 52 3 49 less Yazoo County 283 146 137 less Louisville 918 863 55 less Wayne County 156 137 19 less Rankin County 523 350 173 less Grenada 8 1 7 less Jones County 1,176 959 217 less Holmes County 317 184 133 less Kemper County 445 4 441 less Hinds County 55 0 55 less Smith County 743 385 358 less Leake County 352 67 285 less Calhoun County 366 226 140 less Simpson County 805 393 412 less Coffeeville 175 90 85 less Stone County 623 574 49 less Jackson County 78 54 24 less South Panola 2,572 1,985 587 less Itawamba County 177 99 78 less Harrison County 1,821 1,471 350 less South Pike 272 218 54 less South Tippah 617 456 161 less Lafayette Co. 7 0 7 less Lauderdale Co. 1,017 816 201 less Scott County 2,245 2,129 116 less Tunica County 271 83 188 less Vicksburg-Warren 4 0 4 less Neshoba County 2 0 2 less Oktibbeha Co. 1,252 531 721 less Tate County 883 557 326 less Lawrence Co. 709 441 268 less Marion 297 226 71 less Copiah County 490 372 118 less Western Line 868 457 411 less Benton County 456 446 10 less Lincoln County 887 320 567 less Lee County 1,399 1,163 236 less Lowndes County 42 0 42 less Monroe 719 382 337 less Choctaw County 1,137 1,074 63 less Pontotoc County 302 271 31 less North Panola 385 177 208 less Montgomery 143 0 143 less Forrest County 1,025 565 460 less Covington County 17 2 15 less East Tallahatchie 348 336 12 less Hazlehurst City 34 2 32 less Enterprise 8 5 3 less Houston 208 114 94 less West Tallahatchie 28 3 25 less Richton 70 0 70 less Newton City 116 88 28 less Nettleton 5 0 5 less Water Valley 83 43 40 less Forest City 1,157 820 337 less Baldwyn 337 202 135 less McComb 314 223 91 less Greenville 528 284 244 less Laurel 253 207 46 less Yazoo City 559 137 422 less Greenwood 887 493 394 less Philadelphia 197 145 52 less Union City 499 376 123 less Chickasaw 12 9 3 less Winona 245 157 88 less Ocean Springs 72 3 69 less Clarksdale 344 276 68 less Mississippi School Districts Corporal Punishment Incidents: 2009-2010 to 2010-2011 School Years This map (v7) prepared 1/13/11 by Southern Echo, Inc. | 1350 Livingston Lane, Jackson, MS 39213 | phone: 601-982-6400 fax: 601-982-2636 | email: [email protected] | website: www.southernecho.org With technical assistance from | Movementech, Inc., Naples, ME | phone: 207-749-1606 email: [email protected] |website: www.movementech.org Legend Corporal Punishment (CP) in MS School Districts Incidents of CP; Whether CP Policy in Student Handbook Incidents of Corporal Punishment Increased Incidents of Corporal Punishment Decreased No Data reported - CP Policy is in Student Handbook No Data reported - No CP Policy in Student Handbook No Data Reported - No Student Handbook Available Data Sources: Geospatial Boundary Data for MS School Districts comes from the U.S. Geological Survey by way of the U.S. Census Bureau's web site. MS Dept of Ed. This map examines the practice and policy of corporal punishment (CP) in MS School Districts. The map is color coded to show five different classifications of MS school districts regarding their use of corporal punishment: 1) PURPLE: In these districts, the use of corporal punishment increased from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011. 2) BLUE: In these districts, the use of corporal punishment decreased from 2009-2010 to 2010-2011. 3) PINK: In 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 thirteen districts did not report incidents of corporal punishment to the MS Dept. of Education, but each district HAS an express policy which permits the use of corporal punishment according to the most recently available Student Handbook (typically but not exclusively the 2011-2012 student handbook). 4) GREEN: In 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 eleven districts did not report incidents of corporal punishment to the MS Dept. of Education, but these districts DO NOT have an express policy permitting the use of corporal punishment according to the most recently available student handbook. 5) GRAY: In 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 seventeen districts did not report incidents of corporal punishment to the MS Dept. of Education, and we were unable to obtain a recent student handbook to determine whether these districts have a policy concerning corporal punishment. The 3 Agricultural High Schools are not included in the visual map because they do not have discrete physical jurisdictions that school districts have. These districts had no reported corporal punishment incidents. Coahoma AHS allows corporal punishment in its student handbook. Forrest AHS has no corporal punishment policy in its student handbook. Hinds AHS's student handbook was unavailable. This map relies in part on data obtained from the MS Dept. of Education and the Jackson, MS Clarion Ledger. We obtained corporal punishment data for 108 of 152 MS School Districts. For each of these districts we have provided three numbers. The BLUE number repesents the number of reported corporal punishment incidents for the 2009 - 2010 school year. The RED number represents the number of reported corporal punishment incidents for the 2010 - 2011 school year. The GREEN number represents the increase or decrease in reported corporal punishment incidents from the first school year to the second school year. 41 Districts did not report CP data to the MS Dept. of Education. Therefore, in these districts no numbers are provided. Overall, 67 of 108 school districts reported a reduction in the incidents of corporal punishment by an accumulated total of 10,975 beatings. Overall 33 of 108 school districts reported an increase in the incidents of corporal punishment by an accumulated total of 4,862 beatings. Therefore there was a reported net decrease in the number of reported incidents of corporal punishment between the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 school years by an accumulated total of 6,113 beatings.
