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The prevalence of school corporal punishment has decreased since the 1970s, declining from four percent of the total number of children in schools in 1978 to less than one percent in 2014. This reduction is partially explained by the increasing number of states banning corporal punishment from public schools between 1974 and 1994. [49] [page ...
Corporal punishment of minors in the United States, meaning the infliction of physical pain or discomfort by parents or other adult guardians, including in some cases school officials, [1] for purposes of punishing unacceptable attitude, is subject to varying legal limits, depending on the state.
Corporal punishment remains legal in many public and private schools in the United States and is disproportionately used among Black students and children with disabilities." What happens when a ...
There are now only four states in the U.S. that have banned corporal punishment in all their schools.
Although corporal punishment is on the decline, more than 109,000 students across 21 states were physically disciplined in the 2013–2014 school year.
Corporal punishment in a women's prison in the United States (ca. 1890) Batog, corporal punishment in the Russian Empire Husaga (the right of the master of the household to corporally punish his servants) was outlawed in Sweden for adults in 1858.
The World Health Organization has decreed the practice “a violation of children’s rights to respect for physical integrity and human dignity.” In 1990, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child established an obligation to “prohibit all corporal punishment of children.” The U.S. was the convention's lone holdout.
While most U.S. states have outlawed corporal punishment in state schools, it continues to be allowed mostly in the Southern states. [13] According to the United States Department of Education, more than 216,000 students were subjected to corporal punishment during the 2008–09 school year. [14]