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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 ...
Or a school board might prescribe that a "female principal(s) or designee shall spank or paddle female students" and that a "male principal(s) or designee shall spank or paddle male students." [28] As of April 2023, 17 states allow corporal punishment in public schools. See School corporal punishment in the United States for further information.
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 ...
Corporal punishment, which can take the form of paddling, spanking or another deliberate infliction of physical pain, is the harshest form of punishment that can be delivered in schools.
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This school year brings new laws into Illinois classrooms from preschool to college.
School corporal punishment was banned in 1914. [34] Parents' right to use corporal punishment of their children was outlawed in 1969 when the section in the constitution of assault in the Penal Code, stating that a "petty assault" was not punishable if committed by parents or others who exercise their right to chastise a child, was removed.
Alex Young, 18, who has lobbied against school corporal punishment, said new data and a new regulation “give me hope that we are closer to eradicating the archaic practice in Kentucky.”