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As of 2024, corporal punishment is still legal in private schools in every U.S. state except Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey and New York, legal in public schools in 17 states, and practiced in 12 of the states. [citation needed].
As of 2024, 33 states and the District of Columbia have banned corporal punishment in public schools, though in some of these there is no explicit prohibition. Corporal punishment is also unlawful in private schools in Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. In the remaining 17 U.S. states corporal punishment is lawful in both public ...
Only four states — New Jersey, Iowa, Maryland and New York — have made banned corporal punishment in private schools. "The use of corporal punishment in schools is not an effective or ethical ...
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]
There are now only four states in the U.S. that have banned corporal punishment in all their schools.
Among states that have completely outlawed it, New Jersey took the unusual step of barring corporal punishment in all schools in 1867. Iowa eliminated it in private schools in 1989. Maryland and ...
The dramatic increase in bans on corporal punishment in schools is documented in an analysis that we conducted recently to learn more about the forces behind the trend. First, countries with ...
Although corporal punishment is on the decline, more than 109,000 students across 21 states were physically disciplined in the 2013–2014 school year.