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WARD: LIVE
Corporal punishment came under attack again today at the Dallas school board meeting. A parent, David Savage, charged that an elementary school principal had beaten his six-year-old daughter with a board. Savage threatened to take legal action against the school district and asked the board to reprimand the principal involved. A suit trying to outlaw corporal punishment in the The Dallas School System is now pending in federal court. After Savage left, Superintendent Estes said he didnzt think the board should allow a parent or anyone else to come before it and make slanderous statements about principals or employees....and said such complaints should be discussed in aprivate executive session of the board and not in public. He said the principal involved in todays incident was one of the finest in the Dallas
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