Keeping up with the news.

A Schoolmaster's Difficulties, By José Rizal, Excerpt from Chapter 19
of Noli Me Tangere (1887)
http://nospank.net/rizal.htm

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Of Spanking and Race, By Garry Cooper, Psychotherapy Networker,
September 28, 2004
http://nospank.net/n-n19r.htm

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Teen-help operators have clout -- Family behind schools with checkered
record calls in political favors, critics say, By Dan Harrie and
Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, September 19, 2004
http://nospank.net/n-n16r.htm

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Six Top Managers at Md. Youth Facility Reassigned, By Matthew Mosk,
Washington Post Staff Writer, Washington Post, September 18, 2004
http://nospank.net/n-n15r.htm

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Jury weighs evidence in father´s spanking of toddler, By Associated
Press, MainToday.com, September 17, 2004
http://nospank.net/n-n18r.htm

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Spanking can lead to more bad behavior by children, By Jared Wadley,
News Service, The University Record Online (U. of Michigan), September
13, 2004
http://nospank.net/n-n09r.htm

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Coverup feared in prison death -- 4th Youth Authority inmate to die in
custody this year, By Tanya Schevitz, Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle
Staff Writers, San Francisco Chronicle, September 9, 2004
http://nospank.net/n-n04r.htm

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Corporal punishment abandoned, By Katherine Bieker, Times
Correspondent, nwitimes.com (Indiana), September 9, 2004
http://nospank.net/n-n03r.htm

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Review may ban strap in schools, By Farrah Tomazin, Education
Reporter, The Age, September 8, 2004
http://nospank.net/n-n01r.htm

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Jordan Riak, Exec. Dir., Parents and Teachers Against Violence in
Education (PTAVE), P.O. Box 1033, Alamo, CA 94507-7033. Web site:
"Project NoSpank" at www.nospank.net Telephone: (925) 831-1661