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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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1 results foundAuthor: Southern Poverty Law Center Title: The Striking Outlier: The Persistent, Painful, and Problematic Practice of Corporal Punishment in Schools Summary: Students of color in this country far too often face barriers to receiving quality public education - from unequal resources in schools, to overly punitive discipline administered more often to children of color. As the nation's oldest and largest nonpartisan civil rights organization, for more than a century, the NAACP has worked to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. Equal access to public education and eliminating the severe racial inequities that continue to plague our education system is at the core of our mission. This new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center and the UCLA Center for Civil Rights Remedies brings new light to the practice of corporal punishment in schools. When an educator strikes a student in school, it can have a devastating impact on the child's opportunity to learn in a safe, healthy, and welcoming environment. This is dangerous for all students, but corporal punishment is administered disproportionately to students of color in our nation's public schools. The practice of striking students in school is banned in most states and only practiced in a small portion of our nation's schools. Even in the minority of states that allow the practice, corporal punishment is generally prohibited in day care centers, foster care systems, and a host of other public settings for children. Where corporal punishment is used in schools, black students and students with disabilities are more likely to be struck by an educator. The analysis in this report takes a close look at the data among schools that administer corporal punishment. It finds that black boys are about twice as likely to receive corporal punishment as white boys, and black girls are three times as likely as white girls. In more than half of the schools that practice corporal punishment, educators hit students with disabilities at a higher rate than those without disabilities. Four states - Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas - account for more than 70 percent of all students receiving corporal punishment in our nation's public schools. This data should shock our conscience - not only because studies show that students of color do not misbehave any more than their white peers, but because the impact of corporal punishment can be devastating on a student's ability to learn and succeed. There are much more effective ways to promote positive behavior, ways that keep students safe and in the classroom. Every child deserves the opportunity to attend school free from harm and free to learn. The minority of states that still allow corporal punishment in our schools should join the rest of the country in prohibiting this dangerous and discriminatory practice. Details: Montgomery, Alabama: Author, 2019. 40p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 24, 2019 at: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/com_corporal_punishment_final_web.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/com_corporal_punishment_final_web.pdf Shelf Number: 156614 Keywords: Civil Rights Corporal Punishment Disabled StudentsRacial Discrimination Racial Disparities School Discipline |