“Striking a student on the head or face is not permitted.” “When it becomes necessary to use corporal punishment, it shall be administered so that there can be no chance of bodily injury or harm,” the policy says. The policy says a witness from the district, which is in a county that is around 93% white, must be present and that the discipline will not be used in front of other students. “At this time, we will focus on educating our students,” she added, before hanging up. She said staff had already done interviews. “Most schools are realizing, ‘You know what, we can discipline children, we can guide their behavior without hitting them,’” said Gershoff, who authored the 2016 study with Font.Ĭassville School District spokeswoman Mindi Artherton was out of the office Friday and a woman who answered the phone in her office suggested reading the policy. She noted that overall, corporal punishment is on the decline, with the numbers dropping steadily since the federal government started tracking it in the late 1970s. She said that led four states - Tennessee, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Louisiana - to ban using it for those students. So when do we stop that kind of violence?”ĭisabled students also are more likely to be subjected to corporal punishment, said Elizabeth Gershoff, a professor of human development and family sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. “Since we’ve been in this country, there’s been violence perpetrated against our children, our families, our foreparents. “Look at the history of violence against Black and brown bodies,” said Reddy, who described herself as a Black mother of sons and a grandson. The disparity frustrates Ellen Reddy, of the Nollie Jenkins Family Center, which advocates on issues such as corporal punishment and special education. Font said Black children are disproportionately subjected to it. Her research found that districts using corporal punishment are generally in poor, Republican-leaning rural areas in Southern states. Sarah Font, an associate professor of sociology and public policy at Pennsylvania State University, coauthored a 2016 study on the subject.
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