Not sure if this has been discussed in the past but I didn’t see it recently posted... in Canada corporal punishment in schools was banned across all provinces in 2004, in the UK it is also banned across all schools. I just found out that corporal punishment is still legal in schools in 19 US states and just want to know others opinions about this. In the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming it is still legal. A total of 163,333 children were subject to corporal punishment in these states public schools during the 2011-2012 school year. A typical state definition of school corporal punishment is the one offered in the Texas Education Code which specifies permissible corporal punishment as “...the deliberate infliction of physical pain by hitting, paddling, spanking, slapping or other physical force used as a means of discipline.”

These articles have more information on it

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5766273/#!po=0.331126

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/corporal-punishment-school-tennessee.amp.html

I’m just wondering what other people’s thoughts on this are. I’m honestly shocked they still allow this in some places and I would never want to send my kid to a school that allowed this especially since the definition is so broad and could include almost any form of physical punishment as the school sees fit. Are other parents comfortable with this? For people who live in any of these states is corporal punishment still widely used in your local schools?