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Article: Public officials send anti-spanking plan to `time out' corner.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- February 5, 1999
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In an unprovoked outburst of common sense, officials in Oakland, Calif., recently rejected a proposal to make their city the first ``No Spanking Zone'' in the United States.
The proposal, which was promoted by a 65-year-old Oakland resident named Jordan Riak, would have made it a non-punishable offense (naturally) for parents to spank their children anywhere in the city. And the proposal would have called for anti-spanking messages directed at parents to be posted in public places like the children's section of city libraries. (No doubt these messages would have paraphrased Dr. Suess: ``You should not spank kids in a house. You should not spank them near a mouse. ...