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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 ...
Although corporal punishment is on the decline, more than 109,000 students across 21 states were physically disciplined in the 2013–2014 school year.
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 Colorado banned the corporal punishment in public schools in 2023, 17 states have yet to ban it, and 14 still practice it. Only four states — New Jersey, Iowa, ...
Corporal punishment in schools has now disappeared from most Western countries, including all European countries. 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 ...
There are now only four states in the U.S. that have banned corporal punishment in all their schools.
Much of the traditional culture that surrounds corporal punishment in school, at any rate in the English-speaking world, derives largely from British practice in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly as regards the caning of teenage boys. [4] There is a vast amount of literature on this, in both popular and serious culture. [5] [6]
While corporal punishment has been stamped out across most of the US, some schools use it routinely – and pressure parents to choose it over suspension.