Today, as the founder and director of Activists with a Purpose Plus, based in Grenada, Freelon-Foster advocates for students at school disciplinary hearings. She also served as mayor of Grenada in 2004 and 2005. To her, the beatings and disproportionate use of force against Black children like Kiorey, even today, is a continuation of the historical racial violence that has been perpetrated against Blacks starting in the days of slavery. “For me, corporal punishment is violence,” she said. “How can corporal punishment be thought of as reasonable?”

Freelon-Foster counseled Ringo and her family on their options in regard to the paddling. She also helped them testify in a virtual Capitol Hill briefing last June in support of banning corporal punishment in the schools.

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