CNN Segment on Paddling Features Student Wearing Communist Insignia

Matthew Balan
August 20th, 2008 11:48 AM
[Update, 3:30 pm ET Wednesday: Video added, at right.]Wednesday’s American Morning program on CNN ran a segment by correspondent Ed Lavandera on the practice of corporal punishment for students, which featured a Texas student speaking out against paddling who wore a red T-shirt -- which featured the communist hammer and sickle symbol, an insignia popular with regimes which presided over the…