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In the years since, a number of U.S. states have banned corporal punishment in public schools. [2] The most recent state to outlaw it was Idaho in 2023, [5] and the latest de facto statewide ban was in Kentucky on November 2, 2023, when the last school district in the state that had not yet banned it did so. In 2014, a student was struck in a U ...
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 ...
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]
Although corporal punishment is on the decline, more than 109,000 students across 21 states were physically disciplined in the 2013–2014 school year.
Children's health experts have called for corporal punishment to be "abolished." So why is it still legal in many states? (Getty Images) (Tomwang112 via Getty Images)
There are now only four states in the U.S. that have banned corporal punishment in all their schools.
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.
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 ...