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In schools in the United States, corporal punishment takes the form of a school teacher or administrator striking a student's buttocks with a wooden paddle (often called "spanking" or "paddling"). [2] The practice was held constitutional in the 1977 Supreme Court case Ingraham v.
The use of corporal punishment in school is legal in many states but should be banned by law, according to a new statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Ban spanking in all schools ...
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 ...
There are now only four states in the U.S. that have banned corporal punishment in all their schools.
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.
Medieval schoolboy birched on the bare buttocks. Corporal punishment in the context of schools in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has been variously defined as: causing deliberate pain to a child in response to the child's undesired behavior and/or language, [12] "purposeful infliction of bodily pain or discomfort by an official in the educational system upon a student as a penalty for ...
Although corporal punishment is on the decline, more than 109,000 students across 21 states were physically disciplined in the 2013–2014 school year.
In the United States, corporal punishment is not used in public schools in 36 states, banned in 33, and permitted in 17, of which only 14 actually have school districts actively administering corporal punishment. Every U.S. state except New Jersey and Iowa permits corporal punishment in private schools, but an increasing number of private ...