End School “The Board prohibits the use of corporal punishment in the District.”
That is the whole policy. In Texas it is one word in FO(LOCAL), the policy code every board already has. For a district that permits corporal punishment on paper and has not used it in years, adopting the sentence changes nothing on Monday morning except the exposure.
What the research finds
Across 21 studies and 67,400 children, school corporal punishment is associated with more aggressive and disruptive behavior, more anxiety and depression, and lower school performance. Across 75 studies it did not even reliably stop the behavior in the moment. Every source is at Facts.
Where the immunity stops
Texas shields employees from personal liability except for excessive force or negligence causing bodily injury (Education Code 22.0511), and protects their job and certificate only for force a court later agrees was reasonable and necessary (22.0512, Penal Code 9.62). Those words are decided afterward, by someone else.
What we are asking
Put the sentence on an agenda. We will send the two-page board brief for your district, the model language in your state's policy code, and, when it is adopted, the Safe School recognition and a press release the district can use.
Request the brief for your district See the districts that already did it Find your district's policy
Figures: U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection 2023-24; Texas statutes read at statutes.capitol.texas.gov; the Safe Schools Project record of each district's own written policy. Not legal advice.