It's hard to believe that corporal punishment in schools is even allowed anymore; there's overwhelming evidence to support the fact that it is essentially not effective and actually, detrimental to a child's well being.

I think physical punishment of any sort is just proof of an adult's inability to keep self-control, and in your examples, a teacher's inability to understand. Because you are completely correct when you say that a child with a disability means they have no control over some of their behaviors, unlike an 'able' child would.

I'm so saddened and frustrated that the education system in a developed State can be so archaic...a throwback to times when the disabled were destined to asylums and sterilized. It's beyond comprehensible and frankly, makes me want to march there myself and give them a piece of my mind !! (That's called half kidding in my house ;)