[{"nces_id":"2800360","name":"ABERDEEN SCHOOL DIST","county":"Monroe","status":"allows","quote":"Step Disciplinary Consequence 1 Warning, parent contact, corporal punishment or other consequences deemed appropriate by the school administrator 26 2 Parent contact, corporal punishment or other consequences deemed appropriate by the school administrator 3 In-school reassignment (ISR) or Out-of-School suspension (OSS) up to three (3) days and parent contact.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/641/Asd/68476c51-9339-4754-9427-6328e912a571/ASD_2026-2027_Student_Handbook__Revisions-July-17-2026-Update.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for, walking to, or OCR-reading the district's own discipline document, read 2026-09-25. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Adams County Schools","county":"Adams","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":null,"method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Status carried over from the pre-2026 map with no source and not verified. The first districts re-checked in 2026 were wrong in this data more often than not, so it is recorded as unknown until someone opens the policy. The previous unsourced value is kept in legacy_status."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Alcorn County Schools","county":"Alcorn","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT POLICY (JDB) A maximum of 3 licks may be administered for disciplinary purposes only. Licks will not be given for failing to do assignments or for a failing grade. Reasonable and proper application will consider age, size, sex, and the gravity of the offense. When an Administrator uses corporal punishment, a certified employee of the District will be used as a witness. No coach will paddle at a practice.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/576/Alcorn_School_District/23e48dac-42ed-43ce-8b1d-15c5cbc5e55f/25-26_Student_Handbook_-_FINAL_-_Google_Docs.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Document is the district's own 2026-2027 Student Handbook (cover page reads '2026-2027 Student Handbook'; filename still says 25-26). Fetched via fetch_document: 1,931,132 bytes, application/pdf, 54 pages, text layer present; quote is on PDF page 25. INPUT ROW WAS MISMATCHED: nces_name was 'LINCOLN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' and website was lcsd.k12.ms.us (Lincoln County), so nces_id 2802640 was dropped rather than filed wrong. Site actually used: https://www.alcornschools.org (the county district is branded 'Alcorn School District'; Corinth School District is the separate city district in the same county). Board policy corroborates and is NOT stale: Simbli/MSBA (alcorn.msbapolicy.org -> S=36031677), 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Alcorn County School District', adopted 12/04/2008, amended May 13 2024, last reviewed 04/13/2026, same '(3) licks' text plus paddle specifications. No parental consent or opt-out mechanism for corporal punishment appears anywhere in the handbook; the handbook's 'Parental Opt-Out Letter' (p.53) is a FERPA directory-information/military-recruiter form, not a corporal punishment form."},{"nces_id":"2800390","name":"Alcorn School Dist","county":"Corinth","status":"allows","quote":"A maximum of three (3) licks may be administered for disciplinary purposes only.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031677&revid=Ho9icOTHNGvR1Y1LoFn1nQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-20","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"The document's own header reads 'Alcorn County School District' - this is the county district (NCES 2800390), not the separate Corinth School District; the input row's county field 'Corinth' is the district office's mailing city. Simbli site S=36031677, reached from alcorn.msbapolicy.org which 302s to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031677. The shared fetch_simbli_policy tool was tried about ten times over 100 minutes and returned Simbli's bot-challenge page every time, so this one policy was read in a browser and the verbatim text is supplied as source_text. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', Status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 12/04/2008, Last Reviewed Date 04/13/2026; the policy body's own footer reads 'Amended: May 13, 2024  Last Review Date: April 8, 2024  Review History: April 12, 2021'. No parental consent or opt-out clause, so 'allows'. The policy specifies paddle dimensions and says the Alcorn Career Center makes all the District's paddles. Cites MS Code 11-46-9 and 37-11-57 and Ingraham v. Wright. CONTACT: all fields left null. alcorn.k12.ms.us (the NCES website) refuses connections from here and from the project server, and the Simbli policy pages publish no district address or contact. Nothing was taken second-hand."},{"nces_id":"2800420","name":"Amite County Schools","county":"Amite","status":"consent_required","quote":"4. Parent permission must be given prior to administration of corporal punishment.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/2207179182c9460fb51443f7306e82ba.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Real district site is www.amite.k12.ms.us (the site in the federal file); input nces_name/nces_id (2800420 AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT) do match this district, so nces_id kept. Source is the district's 2021-2022 Secondary Student Handbook, quote on printed page 29 under the heading 'Corporal Punishment', item 4. Fetched with curl: HTTP 200, application/pdf, 1,603,207 bytes, 47 pages, real text layer (PDF page 29). CLASSIFIED consent_required (opt IN): permission must be given in advance, not merely a right to opt out. CURRENCY CHECK: the district's current handbooks at https://www.amite.k12.ms.us/handbooks (2025-2026 High School Handbook, https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/9ab5bb335cef4aaeab06d6f93012c2c1.pdf, 3,469,095 bytes, 50 pages) are image-only scans - fetch_document returns needs_ocr:true and no text. I OCR'd that 2025-2026 handbook locally with tesseract/ocrmypdf and it carries the identical section, including 'Parent permission must be given prior to administration of corporal punishment' on printed page 29, so the opt-in requirement is still current. BOARD POLICY CROSS-CHECK: Amite's MSBA/Simbli manual (amite.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/PolicyListing.aspx?S=36031678) policy JDB Corporal Punishment, Original Adopted 01/11/2018, Last Reviewed 03/13/2025, permits corporal punishment of non-disabled students and contains NO parental-consent language either way; it does not contradict the handbook, it is silent. The handbook's advance-permission requirement is therefore the operative parental rule. Simbli read in a browser because fetch_simbli_policy was returning Imperva bot challenges."},{"nces_id":"2800450","name":"AMORY SCHOOL DIST","county":"Monroe","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment in the form of paddling shall be witnessed at all times by at least one (1) school employee, and all other acts of corporal punishment, as defined herein, shall be witnessed at all times, if possible, by a school employee.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031679&revid=6pNECXilNu1mY5MS7fUAWA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-30","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":" Submitted through the crew server by a scheduled agent; quote verified against the cached source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-09-30."},{"nces_id":"2800510","name":"Attala County Schools","county":"Attala","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031680&revid=T4NLBTi63Rsslsh7tJZeqVdfQ==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Input row had no website or nces_id. Found the district at https://www.attala.k12.ms.us/ (search: 'Attala County School District Kosciusko Mississippi'). Board policy manual located via attala.msbapolicy.org, which redirects to Simbli site S=36031680; confirmed the page header reads 'Attala County School District'. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 01/01/1999, Last Revised Date 10/05/2023. Simbli is JavaScript-only and was returning Imperva bot challenges to fetch_simbli_policy all session, so I read it in Chrome and attached the verbatim policy as source_text, per the brief. MACHINE-FETCHABLE CORROBORATION: the district's 2026-2027 Student Handbook at https://4.files.edl.io/599f/07/30/26/145804-f4326b01-49b2-43a3-bbea-5631348d1607.pdf (3,718,901 bytes, application/pdf, 55 pages) carries the same policy on PDF page 17: 'Attala County School District recognizes the use of corporal punishment by administrators as a means to correct misconduct of students...'. WHY NOT consent_required: PDF page 55 of that handbook has a 'Corporal Punishment Intent Form' on which a parent must check 'Agree to corporal punishment' or 'Disagree to corporal punishment' and sign, which reads like an opt-in. I filed 'allows' because board policy JDB - the governing document - permits corporal punishment outright and imposes no parental-permission precondition, and because the neighbouring Lawrence County board policy in this same slice shows the identical handbook wording is in fact implementing an opt-out form. A reviewer wanting to revisit this should look at handbook page 55. Note also that the form text still says 'the 2023-2024 school year' inside the 2026-2027 handbook. No policy code is printed beside the handbook's corporal punishment section; the adjacent 'Reference: Board Policy JCDA' line belongs to the School Searches section above it. The code JDB comes from the board policy manual itself."},{"nces_id":"2800540","name":"BALDWYN SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Lee","status":"allows","quote":"Use of profanity—corporal punishment, two (2) detentions or in-school or out-of-school suspension as deemed appropriate by the principal.","source":"https://baldwynschools.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/BHS-5-12-Handbook-2025-2026-FINAL.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for, walking to, or OCR-reading the district's own discipline document, read 2026-09-25. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2800570","name":"Bay St Louis Waveland School District","county":"Hancock","status":"silent","quote":null,"source":"https://www.bwsd.org/en-US/parents-resources-9b0382b4","last_verified":"2026-09-26","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"other","url":"https://www.bwsd.org/en-US/parents-resources-9b0382b4","says":"silent"}],"notes":"1 document found by searching for the district's handbook, code of conduct and board policy and read in full on 2026-09-26; none mentions corporal punishment. State law permits the practice where a district has not prohibited it, so with no written rule it runs on custom; the board policy manual was not located by search or vendor lookup. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2800600","name":"Benton County Schools","county":"Benton","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031683&revid=n5uSGwLBQRiyzkNCV985gQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Board policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment' of the Benton County School District; originally adopted 01/01/1999, last revised 06/10/2019 per the Simbli record. Read in this session with the project server's fetch_simbli_policy on site S=36031683, which reported district 'Benton County School District ', confirming the manual belongs to this district. NOT plain-curl fetchable: Simbli is JavaScript-only behind Imperva; curl with a browser UA on the ViewPolicy URL returns a 6,058-byte text/html 'Pardon Our Interruption' challenge, so the verbatim text is attached as source_text. S number obtained by following https://benton.msbapolicy.org/ (the link on the district's own https://www.benton.k12.ms.us/boardpolicies page) with curl -L. Machine-fetchable corroboration I fetched and read myself: the district's 2026-2027 Employee Handbook PDF at https://content.schoolinsites.com/api/documents/c18e0d0e2691401487d6c933a1c052e6.pdf (1,917,821 bytes, application/pdf, 24 pages; its cover page reads '2026-2027 BENTON COUNTY SCHOOLS EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK', confirming the district), p.8: 'Reasonable corporal punishment shall be used only after less stringent measures such as student conferences, parent conferences, loss of privileges, etc. have failed to produce the desired results unless the conduct of a student is of such an extreme nature that corporal punishment is the only reasonable form of discipline considering the circumstances.' Input row's nces_id 2803150 / nces_name 'NEWTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / website newton.k12.ms.us belong to a different district, so nces_id is left null; site actually used: www.benton.k12.ms.us."},{"nces_id":"2800630","name":"Biloxi Public Schools","county":"Harrison","status":"bans","quote":"Corporal punishment is not a disciplinary practice used within the Biloxi Public School District. Parent may not request that corporal punishment be used in lieu of other disciplinary actions.","source":"https://files.smartsites.parentsquare.com/4819/sect-j_5.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"BAN CONFIRMED despite MS law permitting corporal punishment. Source is the district's own Board Policy Manual, Section J (Students), posted at biloxischools.net/43165_3. Running header on the page: \"Biloxi Public School District - Adopted June 14, 2005; Revised 7/16/13; 7/18/17 Policy JD ... 7/20/21, 7/16/25\" (so most recently revised 7/16/2025). fetch_document: 1,298,633 bytes, application/pdf, 189 pages; quote on PDF page 67 (printed \"Page 3 of 5\" of Policy JD), under the heading \"Corporal Punishment\". Input row had no website; site found by search: biloxischools.net. District policy index PDF (https://s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/4819/policy_index.pdf, 217,401 bytes, 9pp) maps \"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT - JD\". Corroboration: the 2023-24 Biloxi Upper Elementary handbook (s3.amazonaws.com/scschoolfiles/4819/2023-2024_bue_handbook_final_1.pdf, 593,174 bytes, 48pp) contains zero occurrences of \"corporal\", \"paddl\" or \"spank\". Biloxi's Simbli manual (biloxi.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031684) is behind a login, so the district-posted PDF was used instead. TEXT-EXTRACTION NOTE for the re-verifier: pypdf renders the first word as \"discipl inary\" with a spurious space; the MCP fetch_document extractor and the rendered page both read \"disciplinary\". Double spaces after the sentence-ending periods in the PDF have been collapsed to single spaces in the quote; no other change."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Bolivar County Schools","county":"Bolivar","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"No school district named \"Bolivar County Schools\" exists. Miss. Code 37-7-104.1 required administrative consolidation of all Bolivar County districts into three by 07/01/2014: Cleveland School District, North Bolivar Consolidated School District, and West Bolivar Consolidated School District. I confirmed against the federal CCD directory (Urban Institute mirror, https://educationdata.urban.org/api/v1/school-districts/ccd/directory/2022/?fips=28, 153 MS LEAs, 276118 bytes JSON): the only Bolivar LEAs are 2800185 WEST BOLIVAR CONS SCHOOL DIST and 2800186 NORTH BOLIVAR CONS SCHOOL DIST. Input row was paired with nces_id 2802400 / nces_name LAMAR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT and website ww.lamarcountyschools.org -- a different district in a different county; ignored per instructions and left nces_id null. Because the row cannot be attached to one district I am filing unknown rather than guessing, but I did verify both successors so a reviewer can split this row: (a) North Bolivar Consolidated SD, board policy JDB Corporal Punishment, ADOPTED, original 06/14/2019, last revised/reviewed 05/11/2026, Simbli site 36031852 (found via nbcsd.msbapolicy.org -> simbli Index.aspx?S=36031852), opens: \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.\" -> allows. (b) West Bolivar Consolidated SD, board policy JDB Corporal Punishment, ADOPTED, original 01/01/1999, last revised 07/13/2017, last reviewed 03/19/2026, Simbli site 36031804 (found via resolve_handbook on wbcsdk12.org), opens: \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.\" -> allows. Cleveland School District (Simbli site 36031694 via cleveland.msbapolicy.org) was not read. Both successor policies were read in a browser because Simbli is JavaScript-only and behind an Imperva challenge; fetch_simbli_policy returned a bot-protection page on every attempt during this run."},{"nces_id":"2800820","name":"Booneville School Dist","county":"Booneville","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment is an alternative for students who disobey rules. The MS Code 37-11-57 states that students with an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) or a Section 504 plan cannot be subject to corporal punishment.","source":"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ppo2Qfk4kPP6xNEs8F0bt4rDEvIl9gKE/export?format=txt","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Booneville High School Student Handbook 2026-2027, published by Booneville School District and linked as 'BHS Student Handbook' from https://www.boonevilleschools.org/ (no website in the NCES row; found the district site by probing). Fetched: HTTP 200, text/plain; charset=utf-8, 81,069 bytes via the Google Docs txt export (re-verified server-side: 80,841 chars, hit at offset 39168). The district's elementary handbook (docs.google.com/document/d/1akzyAxMK2iFcWk7Jb3tfb_smcOTjGPrNSLf4qqwg8lk/export?format=txt) says the same: 'These other forms of discipline will include, but are not limited to, corporal punishment...'. No parental opt-out or opt-in stated. Board policy JDB is on Simbli site 36031685 (booneville.msbapolicy.org), unreadable all session (issue_0314d441932d). CONTACT: taken from the district's own site on 2026-09-19; email left null where the site publishes only named individuals' addresses or a web form rather than a general/superintendent's office address."},{"nces_id":"2800840","name":"BROOKHAVEN SCHOOL DIST","county":"Lincoln","status":"silent","quote":null,"source":"https://4.files.edl.io/dfec/06/01/26/184116-059c7643-95e1-4020-87a3-71b0cbd73411.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[],"notes":"Handbook found by crawling the district site, read in full on 2026-09-25; it does not mention corporal punishment. The board policy manual was not located after search, crawl and vendor lookup. The district reported 11 students struck in 2023-24 (CRDC). State law permits the practice where a district has not prohibited it, so with no written rule it runs on custom. A records request for the board policy is the next step."},{"nces_id":"2800870","name":"Calhoun County Schools","county":"Calhoun","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal Punishment Reasonable corporal punishment may be administered as a disciplinary measure to preserve an effective learning environment. The superintendent shall enforce rules governing corporal punishment, including the following: 1. Corporal punishment must be reasonable, moderate, and not administered maliciously or for revenge. The student's size, age, and condition must be considered. 2. The principal or a teacher may administer corporal punishment. 3. It must be administered in the presence of another certified staff member and outside the view of other students. 4. Suspensions of up to three days will be used as an alternative to corporal punishment. 5. Parents must notify the school in writing each school year if they refuse corporal punishment. Policy Reference: CCSD Board Policy JDB; Miss. Code Ann. § 37-11-57.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/e1c7caa4a23d4d7da13a27c69df09b9e.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-22","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Primary source: Calhoun County School District (Pittsboro, MS) 2026-27 Parent and Student Handbook, published on the district's own site at calhounk12.com/handbooks (page titled '2026-27 Parent and Student Handbook'). Fetched via project fetch_document tool: content-type application/pdf, 1,122,361 bytes, 54 pages, SHA256 eaddd84a9f0f84913b72a0ecc031c87efd5ea722f561b30d55a951e3dbe55b33, hit on page 39 (offset 107117). Classified 'allows' because parents may only OPT OUT in writing each school year (item 5), not opt in; per project rules opt-out = allows. Handbook does not print a separate adopted/revised date for Board Policy JDB itself (an adjacent AI-use policy on the same page is dated 'Revised 05/2025', which is NOT this policy -- do not confuse the two). Attempted to cross-check the board's own Simbli policy manual (found via calhoun.msbapolicy.org -> https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031687, confirmed this is the correct Calhoun County SD site) to pull JDB's official adoption/revision date via the project's fetch_simbli_policy tool; it returned a rate-limit/bot-challenge response on three spaced attempts (per project instructions, did not go around the tool with a browser). A future contributor could retry fetch_simbli_policy with site '36031687' (title to match: search for 'Corporal Punishment' or code 'JDB') to add the exact adoption/revision date, though the handbook quote above already independently documents and dates (as of 2026-27 school year) the current 'allows' policy with opt-out. legacy_status: none provided for this slice (federal CRDC-sourced row, first record)."},{"nces_id":"2800900","name":"Canton Public School District","county":"Madison","status":"bans","quote":"School personnel shall not use corporal punishment of any form at any time.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031688&revid=pT7ZwTD8UxJpglg5BIHx2A%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.cantonschools.net/students/student-handbooks","says":"silent"}],"notes":"JDB prints both a prohibition and a grant of authority. Quoted sentence is the prohibition. Opposing sentence, verbatim: The superintendent has the authority to administer or authorize the use of corporal punishment by building level administrators. Printed revision lines: August 6, 1990; March 11, 1997; April 15, 2003. Header last revised 11/12/2019. State line on the policy: Canton, Mississippi. Quote verified against the cached source; status bans."},{"nces_id":"2800930","name":"Carroll County Schools","county":"Carroll","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment is permitted as a disciplinary measure in accordance with state law.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/96795db6e73b4aa7b7e8a6831ef6c54b.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"District site found by me at https://www.ccsd.ms (ConnectSuite; Jaguars / J.Z. George HS, Carrollton MS - matches the Carroll County MS district, not Carroll County KY or GA). Source is the CCSD 2026-2027 student handbook linked from https://www.ccsd.ms/studenthandbook; fetched with fetch_document: 1,257,235 bytes, application/pdf, 87 pages, hit on PDF pages 37-38 under heading 'CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (JBD)'. OPT-OUT, so 'allows': the same section reads verbatim 'At the beginning of each school year, parents have the responsibility to request in writing that corporal punishment may not be administered to their child or children.' and 'refusal of corporal punishment by the student will result in specific suspension which will constitute an unexcused absence.' Board policy confirms and is the authority: Simbli policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', Carroll County School District, originally adopted 01/01/1999, last revised and reviewed 06/11/2026, at https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031689&revid=LM86qVBd5Ir1vdyq3xYUpA==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false (read in a browser; Simbli is JS-only and was serving Imperva bot challenges to fetch_simbli_policy and to plain curl). Board policy opens 'Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.' Note the handbook prints the code as '(JBD)'; the board manual code is JDB. Simbli site reached via carroll.msbapolicy.org -> S=36031689; page title confirms 'Carroll County School District'. An earlier Google hit for 'Carroll County ... code of conduct' was Carroll County KENTUCKY (cites 704 KAR 7:55) and was discarded."},{"nces_id":"2800200","name":"Chickasaw County School District","county":"Chickasaw","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031690&revid=qLBplusRtgjp8l46O9Gr1zCqw==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-09","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"No parental consent or opt-out provision appears in policy JDB. Disability exemption: \"School personnel is prohibited from using corporal punishment on any student with a disability. A student with a disability is any student who has an IEP or Section 504 plan.\" It may be administered by the principal, assistant principal, or a teacher, in the presence of another school employee, only after less stringent measures have failed unless the conduct is extreme; must be reasonable and moderate. MSBA policy service: the district's Board of Trustees page https://www.chickasaw.k12.ms.us/page/board-of-trustees/ links 'Board Policies Public View' -> https://chickasaw.msbapolicy.org/ which redirects to Simbli site S=36031690. Policy JDB status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 07/20/2012, Last Revised Date 06/08/2026, Last Reviewed Date 06/08/2026. Cites Miss. Code 37-11-57 and 11-46-9, Ingraham v. Wright; cross-references AAA and JD. District office is in Houston, MS."},{"nces_id":"2800990","name":"Choctaw County Schools","county":"Choctaw","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031691&revid=QEuEVe6xxKbc3O551BjtfQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-20","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Read with fetch_simbli_policy site 36031691. Policy JDB Corporal Punishment: originally adopted 06/04/2012, last revised 07/11/2019, status ADOPTED. Identity from http://choctaw.msbapolicy.org, which 301-redirects to simbli Index.aspx?S=36031691; the district's own site choctaw.k12.ms.us is behind a client-challenge so the link could not be checked on the district page itself — a reviewer should confirm the S number. This is Choctaw COUNTY School District (Ackerman), Mississippi. No parental consent or opt-out provision in the policy."},{"nces_id":"2801020","name":"Claiborne County Schools","county":"Claiborne","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031692&revid=N4ybslshxygAK2QyYsi6Ac9dQ==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Board policy JDB, Status: ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 01/01/1999 (no later revision shown). NOT MACHINE-FETCHABLE: Simbli is JavaScript-only and behind an Imperva bot challenge; plain curl returns a 6,058-byte 'Pardon Our Interruption' shell and fetch_simbli_policy was refused repeatedly, so the policy was read in a browser and the verbatim text is attached as source_text. Simbli site number 36031692 was found on the district's OWN website (resolve_handbook on https://www.claiborne.k12.ms.us) and independently via claiborne.msbapolicy.org; the Simbli page title reads 'Claiborne County School District'. The district's student handbook (Google Drive file 1KLFsnqysEkooTiFogsYjWdRQpfVDWmja, 4,642,636 bytes, application/octet-stream, 33 pages, good text layer) contains NO mention of corporal punishment, paddling or spanking at all — board policy is the only source. Input row had nces_id null and website null; site actually used: https://www.claiborne.k12.ms.us."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Clarke County Schools","county":"Clarke","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO SUCH DISTRICT EXISTS. Mississippi has no 'Clarke County School District'. Clarke County is served by two independent districts with separate boards: Quitman School District (Clarke County) and Enterprise School District (Clarke County). Verified three ways: (1) MDE official District Directory https://mdek12.org/dd/ (fetched server-side, text/html, 103,864 bytes, updated 09/14/2026) lists 'Enterprise School District (Clarke County)' and 'Quitman School District (Clarke County)' and contains no 'Clarke County School' entry; (2) Wikipedia List of school districts in Mississippi lists only Enterprise and Quitman for Clarke County; (3) the MSBA policy service has quitman.msbapolicy.org (Simbli S=36031777) and enterprise.msbapolicy.org (S=36031704) but clarke.msbapolicy.org and clarkecounty.msbapolicy.org fall through to the generic MSBA gate. INPUT ROW IS MISMATCHED: nces_name 'LAMAR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / nces_id 2802400 / website ww.lamarcountyschools.org all belong to Lamar County, a different district; nces_id left null rather than filing Lamar's id under this name. Also searched: 'Clarke County School District Mississippi board policy manual corporal punishment' (the clarkecountyschools.org hit is Clarke County, GEORGIA). No record filed for a district that does not exist; the two real Clarke County districts should be scanned under their own names."},{"nces_id":"2801050","name":"CLARKSDALE MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DIST","county":"Coahoma","status":"allows","quote":"Disciplinary action will consist of procedures set forth by classroom or school-wide discipline plans, isolation, detentions, corporal punishment under existing school policy, loss of privileges, denial of participation in school activities, probation or a combination of any one or more of such actions, including appropriate constructive assignments, depending on the seriousness and the circumstances of the offense, and the attitude of the student.","source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1720199120/cmsdschoolsorg/indn2rvqo1cgus9ge3hl/StudentHandbookSept2021_22.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for, walking to, or OCR-reading the district's own discipline document, read 2026-09-25. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Clay County Schools","county":"Clay","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO SUCH DISTRICT EXISTS TODAY. The Clay County School District was abolished effective 2015-07-01, when it and the West Point School District were consolidated into the West Point Consolidated School District (WPCSD), whose boundaries are now coterminous with Clay County. There is no Clay County SD website, board policy manual or handbook to open. Per the coordinator's Mississippi tip and the brief, nces_id is filed as null: the federal row paired this district with nces_name 'LAMAR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' (website ww.lamarcountyschools.org), a different district, so the id and website in the input cannot be trusted. Places searched: web search for 'Clay County School District Mississippi' and for a Clay County policy manual; https://www.westpoint.k12.ms.us/ (resolve_handbook); https://www.westpoint.k12.ms.us/student-handbooks; westpoint.msbapolicy.org. FOR THE SUCCESSOR DISTRICT ONLY, not filed as this record's status: WPCSD's 2026-2027 K-7 Student Handbook (https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/183fd8174b4843259c3087994070d6a4.pdf, 2,080,430 bytes, application/pdf, 101 pages) permits corporal punishment - PDF page 49: 'Step 4: Corporal punishment (when applicable) - Parent Contacted' and '***Student who cannot receive corporal punishment will receive either ISS or OSS.'; PDF page 50 assigns 'Corporal punishment or 1 day of ISS' for a grades 1-4 second offense. I searched that handbook for a consent or opt-out form and found none. WPCSD's board policy manual is Simbli site S=36031805 (via westpoint.msbapolicy.org) and was not read. Recommend the crew re-file this row under the name 'West Point Consolidated School District'."},{"nces_id":"2800750","name":"Cleveland School District","county":"Bolivar","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031694&revid=HKggslshzlvYScyGtLP2mKT8A%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://cchs.cleveland.k12.ms.us/for-students/student-handbook","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Board policy JDB read from cleveland.msbapolicy.org, Simbli S=36031694. Header dates 06/16/2014. No sentence requiring parental permission. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2801090","name":"Clinton Public School District","county":"Hinds","status":"silent","quote":null,"source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1706677500/clintonpublicschoolscom/nveixcwhstsmr2ztalhe/comprehensiveclintonhighschoolstudenthandbook-2.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-26","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1706677500/clintonpublicschoolscom/nveixcwhstsmr2ztalhe/comprehensiveclintonhighschoolstudenthandbook-2.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.clintonpublicschools.com/link-one/child-page-two/cpsd-student-handbooks/elementary-school-handbook","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1715784297/clintonpublicschoolscom/b1yhdbqeciasbd490npu/CPSDSecondaryHandbook.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.clintonpublicschools.com/schools/northside-elementary/quick-links/2022-2023-student-handbook","says":"silent"}],"notes":"4 documents found by searching for the district's handbook, code of conduct and board policy and read in full on 2026-09-26; none mentions corporal punishment. State law permits the practice where a district has not prohibited it, so with no written rule it runs on custom; the board policy manual was not located by search or vendor lookup. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2801110","name":"Coahoma County School District","county":"Coahoma","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031696&revid=DqmrQvUH2Z6JeP5XuXugQQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2801140","name":"COFFEEVILLE SCHOOL DIST","county":"Yalobusha","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031813&revid=K3KeXiS3XyH0R7vzeTJ7qw%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-21","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Federal CRDC 2023-24 reported this district struck students; this is the first record filed for it. fetch_simbli_policy {site:36031813} returned the full text directly (before the fleet-wide Imperva block described below fully set in). Policy JD \"Student Discipline\", status ADOPTED, originally_adopted 04/09/2013, last_revised 04/09/2013 -- never revised since adoption, so this is a long-standing 'allows', not a change. Quote is from JD's own CORPORAL PUNISHMENT section (full section reads: administered only after less-stringent measures fail unless conduct is extreme; must be reasonable/moderate; may be given by principal, assistant principal, or teacher; witnessed by another employee). A separate policy code JDB \"Corporal Punishment\" also exists in the district's index (same last_revised 04/09/2013) but its full text was not returned in this call and was not re-fetched, since JD's own text is complete and dispositive and Simbli then became unreachable. Contact captured from the district's own Contact Us and Board Members pages; superintendent name and title (Interim) from https://www.coffeevilleschools.org/superintendent, dated bio signed 'Dexter Green, Interim Superintendent'. District publishes only a phone/address on its contact page, no general email address (a script-embedded 'website@coffeevilleschools.org' string was not used as it is not a labeled public contact); district_email and board_email left null rather than guessed."},{"nces_id":"2801170","name":"Columbia School District","county":"Marion","status":"silent","quote":null,"source":"https://www.columbiaschools.org/athletics/policieshandbook","last_verified":"2026-09-26","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"board_policy","url":"https://www.columbiaschools.org/athletics/policieshandbook","says":"silent"}],"notes":"1 document found by searching for the district's handbook, code of conduct and board policy and read in full on 2026-09-26; none mentions corporal punishment. State law permits the practice where a district has not prohibited it, so with no written rule it runs on custom; the board policy manual was not located by search or vendor lookup. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2801200","name":"Columbus Municipal School District","county":"Lowndes","status":"bans","quote":"Discipline in the form of any corporal punishment shall not be practiced.","source":"https://cdnsm5-ss20.sharpschool.com/UserFiles/Servers/Server_135954/File/For%20Students/2023-2024%20CMSD%20Handbook.pdf","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[],"notes":"Handbook ban sentence has no printed adoption or revision date. Board manual has no JDB. JD does not mention corporal punishment. Searched the 2023-2024 handbook and Simbli S=36031698. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2801220","name":"Copiah County Schools","county":"Copiah","status":"allows","quote":"When other measures have been tried and have not resulted in corrected behavior, corporal punishment may be administered under the following safeguards: a. The only type of corporal punishment permitted is paddling of the buttocks that does not result in physical harm to the student.","source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1753815693/copiahms/jvu8jghiejmltuxj2bl9/ElementaryHandbook2025-2026Final.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Opt-OUT, so \"allows\": the same page reads \"NOTE: Students in K-6 whose parents refuse corporal punishment will be assigned to after-school detention for the first two offenses in a nine-week period and then suspended for future offenses in a nine-week period.\" Source is the district's Elementary Student/Parent Handbook Grades K-6 2025-2026 (Copiah County School District, finalsite tenant \"copiahms\"); fetch_document: 3,052,543 bytes, application/pdf, 49 pages; quote on page 26, in the district-wide \"Discipline Guidelines\" section that also names \"The Copiah County School Board of Education\". BOARD POLICY AGREES: policy JDB \"Corporal Punishment\" in the Copiah County School District Board Policy Manual on Simbli (copiah.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031699; listing page title \"Policy Listing | Copiah County School District\"), adopted 08/07/2017, revised 07/01/2019, opens: \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.\" Simbli is JavaScript-only and Imperva-challenged; read via its /Services/api/PolicyListing and /Services/api/ViewPolicy endpoints. INPUT ROW WAS MIS-MATCHED: nces_id 2801110 / nces_name \"COAHOMA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT\" / website coahoma.k12.ms.us all belong to Coahoma County, a different district; nces_id left null. Real site used: copiah.ms. (Hazlehurst City School District is a separate district inside Copiah County and was not assessed.)"},{"nces_id":"2801260","name":"Corinth School District","county":"Alcorn","status":"bans","quote":"No paddling of students shall be permitted in the Corinth School District.","source":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnthonyDavidAdams/end-school-corporal-punishment/main/data/policies/inbound/MS/2801260-link-17691c.pdf","last_verified":"2026-10-13","method":"records_request","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1665087748/corinthk12msus/xntckk0lijhgpah26uci/STUDENTHANDBOOK2022-FINALv2.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.corinth.k12.ms.us/student-life/student-handbook","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1689706121/corinthk12msus/grfbxxxcxx7aiwuxoues/2023STUDENTHANDBOOKFINAL-7-13-23.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1752242248/corinthk12msus/ruuqktswaup32pkkuv4r/2025-2026STUDENTHANDBOOKFINALCOPY7-8-25v3.pdf","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Received from the district by email in answer to a public records request, 2026-10-13; the document is kept in the repository at data/policies/inbound/MS/2801260-link-17691c.pdf. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2801290","name":"Covington County Schools","county":"Covington","status":"allows","quote":"Covington County School District may utilize corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the school district. Corporal punishment will be administered in a reasonable manner and applied only to the students’ buttocks in such manner that there will be no permanent effects.","source":"https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1OBJ4anXw-oSyckIzOSgHj3ckIhfmPxYo","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Source is the district's own \"26-27 Handbook Approved.pdf\", linked from covingtoncountyschools.org (found via the site's sitemap.xml; the site itself is JavaScript-rendered and resolve_handbook found nothing). fetch_document returned 789091 bytes, content-type application/octet-stream, 74 pages, text layer present; the Corporal Punishment section is on page 29 and is tagged \"(Policy JDB)\". OPT-OUT, so this is \"allows\", not consent_required. Verbatim from the same page-29 section: \"• Parents have the right to request that their child not receive corporal punishment; however, it shall be the responsibility of the parent/guardian to present such request, in writing, to the school principal or assistant principal prior to the second Monday of the beginning of each school year. The request will only be valid for the current school year.\" and \"• Per HB 1182, corporal punishment is prohibited for students with a disability who have an IEP or a Section 504 Plan.\" Corroborated against board policy: Simbli site 36031700 (covington.msbapolicy.org redirects to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031700), Policy JDB Corporal Punishment, ADOPTED, original 10/01/2002, last revised and reviewed 06/26/2025, read in a browser because fetch_simbli_policy kept returning an Imperva bot challenge. It agrees, including the same opt-out deadline (\"BY THE SECOND MONDAY OF THE BEGINNING OF EACH SCHOOL YEAR\") and \"Any paddling shall be limited to the administration of 1-3 licks.\" nces_id 2801290 in the input matches COVINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT in the CCD directory, so it is kept."},{"nces_id":"2801320","name":"DeSoto County Schools","county":"DeSoto","status":"allows","quote":"The DeSoto County Board of Education recognizes corporal punishment as a method that may be used in controlling student behavior.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031701&revid=KVU70ZJ2eUplushZSaq6WEGQg%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-20","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Read via the project's fetch_simbli_policy tool (Simbli site S=36031701, reached from desoto.msbapolicy.org which 302s to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031701). Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', status ADOPTED, originally adopted 07/01/2008, last revised 06/06/2019; policy text 3,958 chars. Opt-OUT only, so 'allows': 'Even though parental permission is not required, parents may request in writing that this punishment is prohibited for their child.' Also caps at 'no more than three (3) licks per incident on the buttocks' and bars use on students with disabilities. Simbli is JavaScript-only so the ViewPolicy URL is not plain-curl fetchable; the shared tool caches the text against this URL. CONTACT: all fields left null. desotocountyschools.org is behind an F5 'Client Challenge' that returns a 3,038-byte shell to curl and never attaches a document body in the browser, so no published contact page could be read. Nothing was taken second-hand."},{"nces_id":"2801380","name":"East Jasper Consolidated School District","county":"Jasper","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal Punishment (Paddling) Corporal punishment (paddling) will be permitted within the East Jasper School District.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2535/East_Jasper/3a3bbd20-230a-46d0-8c5c-5a5a0edc1a1d/EJSD-Student-Handbook-2025-2026-Final.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"opt_out","documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for the district's policy document and read 2026-09-26 (Mothership sweep of MS). `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2801440","name":"ENTERPRISE SCHOOL DIST","county":"Clarke","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal Punishment Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the district.","source":"http://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/EnterpriseSchoolDistrict/EnterpriseSchoolDistrict/Divisions/Forms/2018-2019%20Student%20Handbook_%7BSISE0412C98A12A%7D.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for, walking to, or OCR-reading the district's own discipline document, read 2026-09-25. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2801470","name":"Forest Municipal School District","county":"Scott","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031705&revid=BtYSyRmJZmu6KaPJcNREfg%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2891/FMSD/3545928/FMSD_Student_Handbook_2023-2024.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2891/FMSD/4656229/2025-2026_Student_Handbook.pdf","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Board policy JDB read from forest.msbapolicy.org, Simbli S=36031705. Adopted 06/20/2011, last revised 06/10/2019. No sentence requiring parental permission. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2801490","name":"Forrest County Schools","county":"Forrest","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031707&revid=dMSpaiUJDJu0rJTHyArbDw==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Board Policy Manual, Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment, Status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 06/24/2019, Last Reviewed Date 06/24/2019 (no later revision shown). District site https://www.fcsd.us (ConnectSuite, JS-rendered; resolve_handbook found nothing). Policy manual found from the district site's own link https://forrest.msbapolicy.org/, which redirects to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031707 (12,764 bytes, text/html on the redirect fetch). NOT MACHINE-FETCHABLE: Simbli is JavaScript-only and was returning Imperva 'Pardon Our Interruption' challenges both to fetch_simbli_policy and to plain curl from my host (6,058 bytes of challenge HTML), so the policy was read in Chrome and the full verbatim text is attached as source_text. Page title confirms the district: 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Forrest County School District'. Note this policy omits the 'less stringent measures first' clause that the MSBA template carries. No parental opt-in or opt-out appears anywhere in JDB."},{"nces_id":"2801530","name":"Franklin County Schools","county":"Franklin","status":"allows","quote":"Lower/Upper Elementary -Corporal Punishment. Please mark no on the enrollment form if you do not want corporal punishment used.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/36772154ac1740979fa3ea741d953271","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO WEBSITE IN THE FEDERAL FILE. Found the district by searching the name: Franklin County School District, Meadville, MS, site www.franklincountyschoolsms.com (the district's own footer in the handbook). SOURCE: Franklin County School District Student Handbook 2026-2027, page 28, under 'Classifications of Violations / Category One Offenses'. Fetched: 1,270,160 bytes, application/pdf, 60 pages (the URL has no .pdf extension but serves application/pdf; confirmed with both fetch_document and plain curl + pdftotext). OPT-OUT, therefore 'allows' per the contract. The quote is the last bullet of the Category One consequence list. Beware confusing this with Franklin County Schools in NC/GA (fcschools.net), which is a different district."},{"nces_id":"2801560","name":"George County Schools","county":"George","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031709&revid=ioichZ5HKH05ClrslTf50g==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Board policy JDB, Status: ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 11/04/2014, Last Revised 06/04/2019, Last Reviewed 04/07/2026. NOT MACHINE-FETCHABLE: Simbli is JavaScript-only and behind an Imperva bot challenge (plain curl returns a 6,058-byte challenge shell; fetch_simbli_policy refused repeatedly), so it was read in a browser and the verbatim text is attached as source_text. Simbli site 36031709 was obtained from the district's OWN 'School Board Policies' page at https://www.gcsd.us/school-board-policies, which links george.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031709; the Simbli page title reads 'George County School District'. The district's PDF handbooks are useless here: the 2026-2027 Secondary handbook (https://irp.cdn-website.com/5877256e/files/uploaded/FINAL+2026+2027+SECONDARY+Student+Handbook+rev+8-26.pdf, 21,848,155 bytes, application/pdf, 73 pages) and the 2026-2027 Elementary and Alternative School handbooks are Epson scans with no text layer (needs_ocr). I OCR'd all 73 pages of the secondary handbook locally with tesseract and it contains no corporal punishment section at all. Input row was mismatched (nces_name 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT', website leecountyschools.us), so nces_id 2802550 was dropped. Site actually used: https://www.gcsd.us."},{"nces_id":"2801590","name":"Greene County Schools","county":"Greene","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/PolicyListing.aspx?S=36031710","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. BOARD POLICY, read in a browser because Simbli is JavaScript-only and fetch_simbli_policy returned Imperva bot challenges on every attempt. Policy JDB Corporal Punishment, Original Adopted Date 05/10/2011, Last Revised Date 09/16/2019, Last Reviewed Date 12/11/2025, Status ADOPTED. Page title confirmed 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Greene County School District', so the manual is this district's. Simbli site number 36031710 (also reachable as greene.msbapolicy.org, and linked from the district's own /school-board page). NO parental consent language at all - neither opt-in nor opt-out - so classified 'allows'; the only categorical limit is that corporal punishment may not be used on a student with an IEP or Section 504 plan. WEBSITE: the site in the federal file (http://www.greene.k12.ms.us) is dead from every client I tried - TLS handshake failure from curl, python and WebFetch, and 'fetch failed' from the project server's fetch_document. The district's live site is https://www.gcsd.ms.gov (Drupal, ms.gov-hosted); that is where I found the Simbli link. Its student-handbook links are Google Drive files that are not publicly shared (they redirect to a Google sign-in), which is why the board policy is the source here. nces_id 2801590 = GREENE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, matches, kept."},{"nces_id":"2800198","name":"Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District","county":"Leflore","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment for use in this district is defined as punishing or correcting a student by striking the student on the buttocks with a paddle. Either the principal or assistant principal may administer corporal punishment, but in either case, another certified staff member must be a witness. Corporal punishment shall not exceed five (5) swats with a paddle. Corporal punishment may be administered only to punish and/or correct disruptive student conduct.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/5a086a97d7e64b60b140df79cb69895c.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Recorded under its current name; the scan row said 'Leflore County Schools'. The former Leflore County School District no longer exists on its own: it was consolidated with Greenwood Public School District into the GREENWOOD-LEFLORE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT (CCD 2022 id 2800198), which is the district recorded here. Input row was paired with nces_id 2802550 / nces_name LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT and website leecountyschools.us, an unrelated district; discarded. Site I used: https://www.glcsd.org. Source is the district's own \"2026-2027 GLCSD Student Handbook .pdf\" from https://www.glcsd.org/handbooks. fetch_document returned 1136334 bytes, application/pdf, 100 pages, 215214 characters, text layer present. Cover page 1 reads \"Greenwood Leflore consolidated School District STUDENT HANDBook 2026-2027\". The quoted language is on page 31, under \"SECTION I: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT\", labelled \"Policy: JDB\". No parental consent or opt-out provision appears in the section, so \"allows\". Corroborated against board policy: Simbli site 36031712 (glcsd.msbapolicy.org -> Index.aspx?S=36031712), Policy JDB Corporal Punishment, ADOPTED, original adopted date 06/04/2019, no later revision shown; read in a browser (fetch_simbli_policy was blocked by an Imperva challenge all run). It opens \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure...\" -- consistent with the handbook."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Grenada County Schools","county":"Grenada","status":"allows","quote":"The Board of Education of the Grenada School District views corporal punishment as a form of discipline. However, if a parent chooses not to participate in corporal punishment, the enclosed form must be signed, and an alternative means of discipline will be enforced by the principal.","source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1782757050/grenadak12com/r6psub1qaducjsbwt2eb/GSD_K-5StudentHandbook.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"The district's legal name on its own document is 'Grenada School District' (county-wide; there is no separate Grenada city district), so the input name 'Grenada County Schools' resolves to it. Per the coordinator's Mississippi tip and the brief, nces_id is filed as null: the federal row paired this district with nces_name 'GREENE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' (website greene.k12.ms.us), a different district, so the id and website in the input cannot be trusted. Real site used: https://www.grenadak12.com/. BOARD POLICY NOT AVAILABLE: grenada.msbapolicy.org redirects to Simbli site S=36031713, but that manual is login-gated - loading the policy listing in Chrome returns the eBOARDsolutions login form, not policies. So unlike the other districts in this slice, the handbook is the best primary source available and no JDB code could be confirmed; the handbook itself says only 'Corporal Punishment (see District Policy)'. Source is the K-5 Student Handbook: 1,464,689 bytes, application/pdf, 123 pages, sha256 1232a526...b755f2, fetched clean with plain curl; quote is on PDF page 53 under the heading 'CORPORAL PUNISHMENT'. No revision date is printed; the finalsite asset version v1782757050 corresponds to 2026-06-29. OPT-OUT (parent signs a form to decline), which the brief classifies as 'allows'. Corporal punishment also appears as a listed consequence in the Level 2 and Level 3 code of conduct tables (PDF pages 32, 34, 38)."},{"nces_id":"2801680","name":"Grenada School District","county":"Grenada","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT The Board of Education of the Grenada School District views corporal punishment as a form of discipline.","source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1723139134/grenadak12com/zfwx7byjomqv3ptunlal/GSD_6-8StudentHandbook.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"opt_out","documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for the district's policy document and read 2026-09-26 (Mothership sweep of MS). `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2801710","name":"Gulfport School District","county":"Harrison","status":"bans","quote":"Because the use of corporal punishment to control the behavior of students in school has been demonstrated to be generally ineffective and has fallen into disrepute in recent years in the national culture, the Board of Trustees herewith directs that effective July 1, 1991, corporal punishment (paddling, other physical contact style of punishment, or any other form of punishment that generates intentional physical pain) will be and has been excluded from utilization by school personnel in the Gulfport School District for purposes of correcting impermissible student behaviors.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/iyxrrzsmv3go1xyz61vz3b1ij6z1?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"JDA prints Board Approved 12/07/92 and Previously Approved 4/04/88. The ban sentence sets the effective date at July 1, 1991. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2801740","name":"Hancock County School District","county":"Hancock","status":"bans","quote":"The Hancock County School District does not employ the use of corporal punishment.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/1878/Hcs/3c499012-5459-4016-aeba-ba9fb7186a56/FY20_Hancock_County_Schools_Student_Handbook-_.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for the district's policy document and read 2026-09-26 (Mothership sweep of MS). `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2801770","name":"Harrison County School District","county":"Harrison","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031715&revid=qyOTmQm7fToiCnwUpUdYxQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Input row had nces_id null / nces_name null / website null. I found the district site myself at https://www.harrison.k12.ms.us; resolve_handbook on it reported a Simbli (eBOARDsolutions) board policy manual, site 36031715, link text \"Policy Manual\". fetch_simbli_policy with site 36031715 succeeded (JSON-RPC response 28895 bytes) and reported district \"Harrison County School District\", confirming the S number belongs to the COUNTY district and not a city district. Policy JDB Corporal Punishment, status ADOPTED, originally adopted 03/07/2016, last revised 06/23/2025, 3699 characters, 0 attachments. Simbli is JavaScript-only and sits behind an Imperva/Incapsula challenge, so a plain curl of the cited URL returns a challenge shell (my own curl of simbli returned a 6058-byte \"Pardon Our Interruption\" page); the project's fetch_simbli_policy tool reads it, and the full policy text is attached as source_text. No parental opt-in or opt-out appears anywhere in the policy: corporal punishment is simply permitted for non-disabled students, so this is \"allows\". nces_id 2801770 supplied by me from the federal CCD 2022 directory (HARRISON CO SCHOOL DIST)."},{"nces_id":"2801800","name":"Hattiesburg Public School District","county":"Forrest","status":"bans","quote":"Corporal Punishment as a form of student discipline is prohibited in the Hattiesburg Public School District.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031716&revid=Sq15bEpslshqVC8XxfslshJEK8fw%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"code_of_conduct","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1622816349/hattiesburgpsdcom/ffne6yzqzi0ergoadc0t/2021-2022HPSStudentHandbook.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"code_of_conduct","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1658787102/hattiesburgpsdcom/epcblrajv3auqmhjn21b/HPSDStudentHandbook2022-2023.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"code_of_conduct","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1752854333/hattiesburgpsdcom/pxctcycjpzrhiz79pue3/HPSDStudentHandbook2025-2026.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"code_of_conduct","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1721060581/hattiesburgpsdcom/tmymcbeh83dvl6hqyoep/HPSDStudentHandbook2024-2025.pdf","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Board policy JDB prohibits corporal punishment. Header dates on the policy are 01/01/1999 for adoption and last revision. Reached from hattiesburg.msbapolicy.org. The policy cites MS Code Section 37-11-57. Quote verified against the cached source; status bans."},{"nces_id":"2801830","name":"HAZLEHURST CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Copiah","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031717&revid=ix4YKvUkTKbS4k4wle8vKA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2801860","name":"Hinds County School District","county":"Hinds","status":"bans","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT – (Board Policy JDB) Corporal Punishment is prohibited in the Hinds County School District.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4080/Hcsd/f296c841-36cc-485e-94d7-fd93d0e5f8f5/HCSD_Employee_Handbook_24-25.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"LEGACY WAS WRONG: legacy_status said 'allows'; the board prohibits it. Source is the district's own HCSD Employee Handbook 24-25 on its Apptegy/thrillshare file host; fetch_document returned 2386092 bytes, application/pdf, 67 pages; passage on PDF page 13. Confirmed at board-policy level in a browser: hinds.msbapolicy.org -> Simbli S=36031718, Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment, ADOPTED, original adopted 07/01/2004, last revised 02/09/2023, last reviewed 09/10/2026 - 'The Hinds County School District prohibits the use of corporal punishment on any student.' Simbli is JavaScript-only behind Imperva and cannot be fetched by curl, so the machine-fetchable handbook PDF is cited. Input row had no nces_id or website; district site found and used: https://www.hinds.k12.ms.us (Raymond, MS)."},{"nces_id":"2801890","name":"Hollandale School District","county":"Washington","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031719&revid=hcQoKzANW6FotTGNuiKNLQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-30","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"other","url":"https://www.hollandalesd.org/parents/parent-information/bullying-policy-and-form","says":"silent"}],"notes":" Submitted through the crew server by a scheduled agent; quote verified against the cached source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-09-30."},{"nces_id":"2801950","name":"HOLLY SPRINGS SCHOOL DIST","county":"Marshall","status":"consent_required","quote":"Alternative disciplinary actions will be required for students whose parents/legal guardians have not checked and signed the required Corporal Punishment Permission statement.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/a26d30fdd64344d4a01a26116361d07f.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"The classifier held this at 0.92; a frontier agent read the clipped sentences and settled it at 0.93. Its reasoning: Hard because the document says two things that pull apart: unconditional grants (\"is allowed in the Holly Springs School District\", \"As a matter of board policy, reasonable corporal punishment ... is permitted\", \"This is an option in the disciplinary program\") sit next to parent-permission language, and the permission sentence itself (\"will indicate whether he/she gives permission\") is directional"},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Holmes County Schools","county":"Holmes","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"HIGH-VALUE FOLLOW-UP: strong but not quotable evidence of a prohibition. The input row's nces_id 2802550 / nces_name 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / website leecountyschools.us belong to a different district, so nces_id is left null. Real district: Holmes County Consolidated School District, https://www.holmesccsd.org. WHERE I LOOKED: (1) Board Policy Manual on Simbli, reached from the district site's own link https://holmes.msbapolicy.org/ -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031721; read section 'J. Students' in Chrome (page title 'Policy Listing | Holmes County Consolidated School District'). The full J listing contains NO corporal punishment policy: it runs ... JD Student Discipline (rev 12/12/2024), JDABA, JDC Detention, JDD Suspension, JDDA Bullying, JDE Expulsion, JDG ... with JDA and JDB absent, while every other MS district I checked carries JDB Corporal Punishment. (2) Policy JD 'Student Discipline' still references the deleted policy - verbatim: 'The discipline policy incorporates the student code of conduct required by Policy JCB and the policies and procedures set forth in Policies JDA, JDB, JDC, JDD, and JDE and as supplemented by all others adopted subsequent thereto.' and lists a cross reference 'JDB Corporal Punishment', but following that cross-reference redirects to https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/login.aspx?S=36031721, i.e. JDB is not published to the public manual. (3) Policies JCA Student Conduct (rev 02/13/2025) and JCD(2) Student Conduct -- Discipline Plan (rev 12/12/2024) read in full: neither mentions corporal punishment; JCA's sanctions are removal from class, suspension and expulsion. (4) 2025-2026 Student Handbook, https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1767818020/holmesccsdorg/a5ntd33j4zcstnz5wiip/2025-2026StudentHandbook.pdf (fetch_document: 3,719,209 bytes, application/pdf, 73 pages, 161,756 chars): ZERO hits for 'corporal', 'paddl', 'spank' or 'physical punishment'; the discipline framework is PBIS/tiers of intervention. (5) resolve_handbook on the district site. I could not obtain a sentence that prohibits corporal punishment, so I am not filing 'bans'. What would settle it: board minutes for the vote removing JDB (press reporting places it in 2018 under Supt. Dr. James Henderson), or a copy of JDB obtained from the district."},{"nces_id":"2802040","name":"Humphreys County Schools","county":"Humphreys","status":"allows","quote":"Students shall not be physically punished by school employees whose parents object to this manner of punishment. Corporal punishment includes whipping, spanking, and paddling.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/5504/Hcsd/797c1bf8-2a87-4ef8-b227-da1d9e832df7/Student_Handbook_2025-2026.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO WEBSITE IN THE FEDERAL FILE. Found by searching the name; Humphreys County School District, 401 Fourth Street, Belzoni, MS 39038 (Interim Superintendent Dr. Stanley K. Ellis). The district was under the Mississippi Achievement School District (www.masd.k12.ms.us), but the CURRENT handbook is issued under the Humphreys County School District name. SOURCE: HUMPHREYS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT 2025-2026 Student Handbook and Code of Conduct, section 'CORPORAL PUNISHMENT - HCSD Policy JDB', handbook pages 74-75 (PDF pages 76-77). Fetched: 2,793,802 bytes, application/pdf, 88 pages (fetch_document and plain curl + pdftotext agree). The section opens, verbatim: 'Corporal punishment shall be used as a last resort to correcting behavior. Only certified administrators may administer corporal punishment.' The quoted bullet is the first of the 'General Rules Regarding Corporal Punishment of Students' and is an OPT-OUT (parents object), therefore 'allows', not consent_required. Corporal punishment is also a listed Level I and Level II consequence in the discipline ladder (handbook p.64, PDF p.66). PRIOR VERSION for comparison: the 2022-2023 MASD Student Handbook (https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2741/MASD/2328715/mASD_Student_Handbook_22-23.pdf, 1,510,191 bytes, 81 pages) carried the identical policy text on p.69 under the code 'mASD Policy JBB'."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Issaquena County Schools","county":"Issaquena","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO SUCH DISTRICT EXISTS. Issaquena County has had no school district of its own since the 1950s (the county closed its district rather than equalize Black and white schools) and is not listed as a district by MDE, NCES or MSBA. Public-school students in Issaquena County attend the SOUTH DELTA SCHOOL DISTRICT, headquartered in Rolling Fork, Sharkey County, which serves 'Sharkey and Issaquena Counties'. I did not carry South Delta's policy over to this row, because South Delta is a separate district with its own board and belongs in its own record. For whoever files South Delta: its student handbook at http://www.southdelta.k12.ms.us/assets/docs/district-office/shandbook.pdf (387,667 bytes, application/pdf, 63 pages, good text layer) has a CORPORAL PUNISHMENT section on PDF page 19 ('Paddling shall be the only form of corporal punishment. No student shall receive more than a maximum of five (5) licks of the paddle...') plus a 'PARENT/GUARDIAN CONSENT FOR CORPORAL DISCIPLINE' opt-OUT form on PDF page 21 — but that handbook's calendar is for school year 2007-2008, so it must not be filed as current. South Delta's current board policy manual is Simbli S=36031785 (southdelta.msbapolicy.org). Searched: the district name plus 'school district Mississippi', MDE/NCES district lists, MSBA msbapolicy.org subdomains, and Wikipedia/Ballotpedia district lists. Input row had nces_id null and website null."},{"nces_id":"2802100","name":"Itawamba County Schools","county":"Itawamba","status":"allows","quote":"All students enrolled in the Itawamba County School District are subject to corporal punishment.","source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1785444847/itawambacsdcom/wfmylapzhiufkstpf3wv/StudentHandbook.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Source is the CURRENT Itawamba County School District Student Handbook 2026-2027, section 'CORPORAL PUNISHMENT' on printed page 43. Fetched server-side and with curl: HTTP 200, application/pdf, 1,331,624 bytes, 88 pages, real text layer. Reached from https://www.itawambacsd.com/parents ('Student Handbook 26-27'), which 302s to this resources.finalsite.net URL. EXPLICITLY NO OPT-OUT - the same section reads: 'Parents/guardians will not be given the option to execute a written document stating that their child shall not be paddled.' Corporal punishment is also a listed first- and second-offense consequence for Class I minor offenses in the discipline ladder on printed page 25 ('First Offense: Parent Contact, Warning, Detention ... or Corporal Punishment'). BOARD POLICY CROSS-CHECK (read in a browser; fetch_simbli_policy was bot-challenged): Simbli S=36031723, linked from the district's own homepage as simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/PolicyListing.aspx?S=36031723 and as itawamba.msbapolicy.org - policy JDB Corporal Punishment, Original Adopted 04/02/2001, Last Revised and Last Reviewed 03/03/2025, permits corporal punishment of non-disabled students, no consent language. Handbook and board policy agree. Federal file's website (itawambacountyschools.com) no longer resolves; the live site is www.itawambacsd.com. nces_id 2802100 = ITAWAMBA COUNTY SCHOOL DIST, matches, kept."},{"nces_id":"2802160","name":"Jackson County School District","county":"Jackson","status":"allows","quote":"A parent may veto corporal punishment for his/her own child by written statement given the school. Parents are to be informed of this requirement upon registration of the student in the particular school.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031724&revid=2eVJXcHNwGpLN9LNFN33AQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Input row had no website or nces_id. Found the district at https://www.jcsd.ms/ (search: 'Jackson County School District Mississippi Vancleave'); resolve_handbook on that site reported the board publishes policy through Simbli (eBOARDsolutions) site S=36031724, and fetch_simbli_policy read it successfully early in the session. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 08/05/1996, Last Revised Date 04/10/2017, 1,929 characters, 0 attachments. COUNTY vs CITY CHECK: I opened the cited URL in Chrome and the page title reads 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Jackson County School District'. Separately, jackson.msbapolicy.org resolves to Simbli S=36031725, whose header reads 'Jackson Public School District' - that is the city of Jackson district in Hinds County and is NOT this district. Do not confuse the two S numbers. Simbli is JavaScript-only and the ViewPolicy URL does not return the document to plain curl, so the full verbatim policy is attached as source_text. OPT-OUT (parent veto by written statement), which the brief classifies as 'allows'. The policy also caps paddling at once per day and three licks per session."},{"nces_id":"2802190","name":"JACKSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Hinds","status":"bans","quote":"Corporal punishment has been prohibited in the Jackson Public School District since July 1, 1991.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031725&revid=kqFiVamnsNMRhRxQqapnXA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"JDB DATE line printed on the policy is February 20, 2006. The same policy says the prohibition dates from July 1, 1991. Quote verified against the cached source; status bans."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Jeff Davis County Schools","county":"Jefferson Davis","status":"allows","quote":"School administrators in the Jefferson Davis County School District may administrator corporal punishment on students who are insubordinate or disobedient, or who violate a rule of the school.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/5906/Jdcsd/50dd82ba-23f8-463e-97ab-4b8f938a0f47/Secondary-Handbook-2026-2027-66-%281%29.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Quote is VERBATIM including the district's typo \"may administrator\". Source is the Jefferson Davis County School District Secondary Handbook 2026-2027 (district site jdcsd.com, Documents > Students); fetch_document: 2,356,210 bytes, application/pdf, 76 pages; quote on page 50 under the heading \"Use of Corporal Punishment\". Classified \"allows\", NOT consent_required: the handbook grants an opt-OUT - \"A parent/guardian of a child enrolled in the Jefferson Davis County School District shall have the right to request that their child not receive corporal punishment at school. It shall be the responsibility of the parent/guardian to present such request, in writing, to the school principal/assistant principal by SEPTEMBER 1 OF EACH SCHOOL YEAR.\" Corporal punishment also appears at every step of the handbook's Discipline Ladder (page 46). Input row had no website or nces_id; site found by search: jdcsd.com (Prentiss, MS). The district's board policy manual is on Simbli at simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031727 (linked from jdcsd.com), but repeated attempts hit the Imperva \"Pardon Our Interruption\" challenge and it could not be read; the handbook above is the district's own published document."},{"nces_id":"2802220","name":"Jefferson County School District","county":"Jefferson","status":"allows","quote":"Use discretion and follow the District policy in the administration of corporal punishment.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/b214bf0e12e4414cb4d919b4cd9d981e.pdf","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/5107/JCS/4788990/Handbook_Bd_Approved_Simbli_5_22_25.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/b04bbc4e28774d09ad30ab21ec24b5f5.pdf","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Employee handbook, Fayette, MS, authorizes administration of corporal punishment under district policy. Simbli S=36031726 returned HTTP 500. Alabama handbook was not used. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2802250","name":"Jefferson Davis County School District","county":"Jefferson Davis","status":"allows","quote":"Improper Use of Internet or any type of pornography, cyber bullying and cyber threats Step 4-8 Use of Corporal Punishment School administrators in the JEFFERSON DAVIS County School District may administer corporal punishment on students who are insubordinate or disobedient, or who violate a rule of the school.","source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1722522709/jdcsdcom/xh5nhydoiiyvvnqegpb6/MiddleSchoolHandbook2024-20252.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"opt_out","documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for the district's policy document and read 2026-09-26 (Mothership sweep of MS). `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2802280","name":"Jones County Schools","county":"Jones","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (JDB) (MS CODE 37-11-57) As a matter of board policy, reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment, which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the school board.","source":"https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1AyQFrjKkrBxmEMSMyHuUUgu0MWl9Sj42","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Source is the Jones County School District Elementary Handbook 2026-2027 (cover page: 'Jones County School District Elementary Handbook 2026-2027, 5204 Highway 11 N. Ellisville, MS 39437'), linked as 'Elementary Handbook' from https://www.jonesk12.org/handbook. fetch_document returned 1000428 bytes, application/octet-stream (PDF), 61 pages; passage on PDF page 26. The district's High School Handbook (https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1uYYXLr1IjxkvjjdGihU-ZjHGth5eE9A0, 2037912 bytes, 109 pages, PDF page 24) carries the same text. Neither handbook provides any parental consent or opt-out mechanism, so 'allows' rather than consent_required. Board policy verified in a browser at jones.msbapolicy.org -> Simbli S=36031728, Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment, ADOPTED, original adopted 06/02/2014, last revised 05/04/2020: 'Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure...'; no consent provision there either. INPUT ROW WAS MIS-MATCHED: input gave nces_id 2801490 / nces_name 'FORREST COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / website fcsd.us; nces_id left null. Real district site used: https://www.jonesk12.org (also jones.k12.ms.us; www.jcsd.us is a different entity)."},{"nces_id":"2802310","name":"Kemper County Schools","county":"Kemper","status":"consent_required","quote":"Corporal punishment in the form of paddling shall be witnessed at all times by at least one (1) school employee, and all other acts of corporal punishment, as defined herein, shall be witnessed at all times, if possible, by a school employee. ' 37-11-57 (1997) only if written permission from the parent or guardian is on file.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031729&revid=Bxdv9Wn9XIXslshtSBEl0mnnw==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Input row's nces_id 2802550 / 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / leecountyschools.us belong to another district; nces_id left null. Real district: Kemper County School District, De Kalb MS, https://www.kempercountyschools.org (Wix site; no handbook posted, but it links its policy manual as https://kemper.msbapolicy.org/, which redirects to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031729). Board Policy Manual, Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment, Status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 01/01/1999, Last Revised Date 10/08/2020, Last Reviewed Date 03/20/2026. Page title confirms 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Kemper County School District'. NOT MACHINE-FETCHABLE: Simbli is JS-only and was serving Imperva bot challenges to fetch_simbli_policy and to curl; read in Chrome, full verbatim policy attached as source_text. CLASSIFICATION NOTE FOR THE REVIEWER: the policy body is the standard MSBA permissive JDB ('Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted ...'), but Kemper has appended a district-specific condition to the last sentence - 'only if written permission from the parent or guardian is on file' - which no other district in my slice has. That is affirmative permission obtained in advance, i.e. opt-in, so I classified consent_required rather than allows. The phrase sits awkwardly after the statutory citation ('  37-11-57 (1997)'), so if the reviewer reads it as drafting debris rather than a condition, the record becomes 'allows'; the verbatim text is preserved in full below so that call can be made from the document."},{"nces_id":"2802340","name":"KOSCIUSKO SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Attala","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031730&revid=vVKA7o7IqA6rBAsTeVQMgw%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2802370","name":"Lafayette County School District","county":"Lafayette","status":"bans","quote":"Corporal punishment of a student is not permitted in the Lafayette County School District.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031731&revid=wWvUmuzuw2ttT8pA5taenQ==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NCES id 2802550 belongs to 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' (MS), not this district; removed rather than file a wrong id. AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. NAME/NCES MISMATCH: the input row's nces_name and website were LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT / leecountyschools.us. Trusted the NAME; this is Lafayette County School District, 100 Commodore Drive, Oxford, MS 38655, site www.gocommodores.org. SOURCE: board policy JDB in the district's Simbli/MSBA policy manual. Policy header: Original Adopted Date 06/29/1998 | Last Revised Date 08/05/2019 | Last Reviewed Date 11/03/2025 | Status: ADOPTED (the body separately shows 'Last Review Date: 11/1/2021'). The 08/05/2019 revision is the board action that removed corporal punishment. Simbli is JavaScript-only; fetch_simbli_policy returned a bot challenge on every attempt over ~5 minutes, so I read the policy in a browser and supplied source_text verbatim. The district's policy link is http://lafayette.msbapolicy.org/, which resolves to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031731 (Simbli site number 36031731). CORROBORATION: the 2026-2027 Student Handbook (https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4476/Lcsd/92649d2d-40e3-4dff-ace8-8f0aaf4c4b36/2026-2027-Student-Handbook-.pdf?disposition=inline, 12,580,994 bytes, application/pdf, 66 pages) contains ZERO occurrences of 'corporal', 'paddl' or 'spank', and its Code of Discipline defines the complete sanction set as Detention, Out-of-School Suspension, SLC (Silent Learning Center), LLC (Lafayette Learning Center) and Expulsion. WARNING FOR REVIEWERS: the district's 2021-2022 handbook (https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/3982/Lcsd/119034b4-61ce-4ec3-9049-3f8d8e2fe3fe/21-22_lafayette_county_school_district_handboo.pdf?disposition=inline, 1,897,738 bytes, 234 pages) STILL carried an opt-in permission form on page 1 ('2. I give permission for corporal punishment YES NO ... Verbal permission will not be accepted.') two years after the 2019 policy revision, so the handbooks lagged the board policy. The board policy is the governing document. Legacy_status 'allows' is WRONG."},{"nces_id":"2802400","name":"Lamar County School District","county":"Lamar","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment is allowed in the Lamar County School District except for the exceptions identified for paddling in Policy Code JDBB.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031732&revid=EHOywY0hWPmZsVd5qP392g==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Board policy JDB, Status: ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 10/01/2002, Last Revised 07/15/2019. Companion policy JDBB 'Paddling' (adopted 08/13/2018, revised 07/15/2019) sets the mechanics and the parental opt-OUT: 'A parent/guardian of a child enrolled in the Lamar County School District shall have the right to request that their child not receive paddling at school. It shall be the responsibility of the parent/guardian to present such request, in writing, to the school principal/assistant principal by SEPTEMBER 1 OF EACH SCHOOL YEAR.' Opt-out, not opt-in, so this is 'allows' and not 'consent_required'. NOT MACHINE-FETCHABLE: Simbli is JavaScript-only behind an Imperva challenge; read in a browser, verbatim JDB text attached as source_text. Simbli site 36031732 came from the district's OWN site (resolve_handbook on https://www.lamarcountyschools.org) and from lamarcountyschools' msbapolicy subdomain; Simbli page title reads 'Lamar County School District'. NOTE for reviewers: the district's current Student/Parent Handbook (https://files.smartsites.parentsquare.com/3524/new_2026-2027_lcs_handbook.pdf, 1,608,924 bytes, application/pdf, 107 pages, good text layer) contains ZERO occurrences of 'corporal punishment', 'paddl' or 'spank' — the handbook is silent, the board policy is not. This is the one row in my slice where the input nces_id matched the name (LAMAR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT), so it is retained. JDBB URL: https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031732&revid=TS7YL4eXBYc2Vp640t2fcw==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false"},{"nces_id":"2802430","name":"Lauderdale County School District","county":"Lauderdale","status":"allows","quote":"Parents will have the right to deny corporal punishment to their child by making a written request which will be placed in the student’s cumulative record.","source":"https://4.files.edl.io/c528/07/17/26/180638-98dda37e-4f0e-42d9-8daa-4381c02ea876.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Source is the district's 2026-2027 Student Handbook, section 'CORPORAL PUNISHMENT' on printed page 70 (PDF page 78). Fetched server-side and with curl: HTTP 200, application/pdf, 1,784,539 bytes, 119 pages, real text layer. Cover page reads '2026-2027 STUDENT HANDBOOK / www.lauderdale.k12.ms.us' and the table of contents names 'LAUDERDALE COUNTY SCHOOLS', so the document is this district's. This is OPT-OUT, not opt-in ('Parents will have the right to deny... The principal will maintain a \"no paddling\" list on file in the school's office'), so classified 'allows' per the contract. The handbook also says 'The district encourages the teacher to use corporal punishment only when it is considered to be an effective and suitable means of discipline'. BOARD POLICY CROSS-CHECK (read in a browser; fetch_simbli_policy was bot-challenged): lauderdale.msbapolicy.org -> Simbli S=36031733, page title 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Lauderdale County School District', Original Adopted 07/28/2016, Last Revised 06/27/2019 - permits corporal punishment of non-disabled students, no consent language either way. Agrees with the handbook. INPUT ROW MISMATCH: nces_name 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT', nces_id 2802550 and website leecountyschools.us all belong to Lee County, a different district. nces_id left null; NCES's own record for Lauderdale County School District is 2802430 (nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?ID2=2802430) if the coordinator wants to repair the row. Site actually used: https://www.lauderdale.k12.ms.us."},{"nces_id":"2802460","name":"Laurel School District","county":"Jones","status":"bans","quote":"Corporal punishment of a student is not permitted as a discipline measure.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031734&revid=BoeU2rQgTJ398xphrzdL8g%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[],"notes":"JDB prints Date Approved 07/10/79 and Rev through 06/18/18. Header last revised 08/23/2018. Reached from laurel.msbapolicy.org. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2802490","name":"Lawrence County Schools","county":"Lawrence","status":"allows","quote":"1. A form will be provided on which parents may indicate if they do not wish their child to receive corporal punishment.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031735&revid=dvTDSOO7AZJC2NajTQbZxA==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Real site: https://www.lawcosd.org/ (Lawrence County School District, Monticello). Per the coordinator's Mississippi tip and the brief, nces_id is filed as null: the federal row paired this district with nces_name 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' (website leecountyschools.us), a different district, so the id and website in the input cannot be trusted. Board policy manual: lawrence.msbapolicy.org redirects to Simbli S=36031735 (the same S number I independently found in the page source of https://www.lawcosd.org/52824_3); Chrome confirms the header reads 'Lawrence County School District'. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 01/01/1999, Last Revised Date 05/19/2020, Last Reviewed Date 07/30/2026. Read in Chrome because fetch_simbli_policy was bot-challenged; verbatim policy attached as source_text. THIS CORRECTS A READING I NEARLY FILED: the district's 2026-2027 Parent/Student Handbook (https://files.smartsites.parentsquare.com/5090/2026-2027_parent_student_handbook_board_approved.pdf, 1,212,992 bytes, application/pdf, 89 pages; PDF page 64) says 'Parents are asked to complete the Corporal Punishment section of the Student Enrollment form to agree or disagree with the use of this option for non-disabled students', which on its own reads like an opt-in. Board policy JDB settles it: the form exists so that parents 'may indicate if they do not wish their child to receive corporal punishment'. That is OPT-OUT, so the correct status is 'allows', not consent_required. The handbook PDF is the machine-fetchable corroborating source and is worth keeping on the record. The handbook also lists corporal punishment as a disciplinary option for Class I, II and III behaviors (PDF pages 69-70). Board policy caps it at once per 24 hours and three licks."},{"nces_id":"2802520","name":"Leake County Schools","county":"Leake","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal Punishment–Policy JDB Corporal Punishment may be used only after other corrective measures have been attempted without success. Corporal punishment shall be defined as spanking (Striking the buttocks with a paddle one to three times). MS. Code prohibits the use of corporal punishment to discipline a student with a disability who has an individualized education plan (IEP) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) or a Section 504 Plan under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.","source":"https://irp.cdn-website.com/61f020bd/files/uploaded/25-26+LCSD+Student+Parent+Handbook+Updated+07222025-B.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Leake County School District 2025-2026 Student/Parent Handbook (cover: 'LEAKE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT Student/Parent Handbook 2025-2026, 109 West Main Street, Carthage, MS 39051'), quoted section 'Corporal Punishment–Policy JDB' on p.38 of the PDF (the handbook's own table of contents on p.3 lists 'Corporal Punishment–Policy JDB 39'). Machine-fetchable: I fetched the cited URL at 2,087,032 bytes, content-type application/pdf, 66 pages, 169,619 characters of text, no OCR needed. The file is hosted on the district's own Duda CDN space (irp.cdn-website.com site id 61f020bd, the same id that serves leakesd.org's logo and stylesheets); the filename itself carries the revision date, '25-26 LCSD Student Parent Handbook Updated 07222025-B', i.e. updated 22 July 2025. Site used: www.leakesd.org (the district's board page links its policy manual at https://leake.msbapolicy.org/, which redirects to Simbli site S=36031736). Input row's nces_id 2802550 / nces_name 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / website leecountyschools.us belong to a different district, so nces_id is left null. Board-policy cross-check NOT completed: leakesd.org's school-board page links the manual at https://leake.msbapolicy.org/, which redirects to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031736, but every fetch_simbli_policy call on that site during this session was turned away by Simbli's Imperva bot challenge. The handbook names the policy as JDB and quotes its substance; a reviewer with Simbli access should confirm JDB itself agrees."},{"nces_id":"2802550","name":"Lee County Schools","county":"Lee","status":"allows","quote":"The Lee County School Board recognizes corporal punishment as a means of enforcing rules of conduct when other positive methods have been unsuccessful. Corporal punishment may be administered by certified personnel and witnessed by another adult. This action shall be documented on the school’s discipline form. (See School Board Policy JDB)","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/4911/District/97b7f7af-7a45-4334-aab7-1bcb6a88d6e5/Student_Handbook_2025-2026.docx.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Source is the Lee County School District (Mississippi) Student Handbook 2025-2026; fetch_document: 963,499 bytes, application/pdf, 49 pages; quote on page 13. CAUTION FOR THE REVIEWER: a same-named \"Lee County Schools\" district in North Carolina publishes on the same file host; this document is under org 4911 and names \"the Lee County School Board\" and leecountyschools.us (Tupelo/Verona, MS) - do not confuse with files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/.../986/Lee_County/..., which is the NC district. BOARD POLICY AGREES: policy JDB \"Corporal Punishment\" in the Lee County School District Board Policy Manual on Simbli (lee.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031737; listing page title \"Policy Listing | Lee County School District\"), originally adopted 12/21/1987, revised 06/18/2019, opens: \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.\" nces_id 2802550 / nces_name \"LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT\" in the input row matches the district name, so it was kept. Website in input (leecountyschools.us) is correct and was used. (Tupelo Public School District is separate and was not assessed.)"},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Leflore County Schools","county":"Leflore","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":null,"method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Status carried over from the pre-2026 map with no source and not verified. The first districts re-checked in 2026 were wrong in this data more often than not, so it is recorded as unknown until someone opens the policy. The previous unsourced value is kept in legacy_status."},{"nces_id":"2802610","name":"Leland School District","county":"Washington","status":"consent_required","quote":"Intimidation, bully or extortion on social media CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Corporal Punishment is permitted in the Leland School District.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/93e270815de94fcf9e27e8ab105be159.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"opt_in","documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for the district's policy document and read 2026-09-26 (Mothership sweep of MS). `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2802640","name":"Lincoln County Schools","county":"Lincoln","status":"bans","quote":"The Lincoln County School District prohibits the use of corporal punishment. School personnel is prohibited from using corporal punishment on any student with a disability. A student with a disability is any student who has an IEP or Section 504 plan.","source":"https://4.files.edl.io/18c8/03/24/25/203923-9dd02c63-57fa-48b4-8e08-9a56e22535d0.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"LEGACY WAS WRONG: legacy_status said 'allows'; the board prohibits it. Source is the single-policy PDF export of the Lincoln County School District Board Policy Manual, 'JDB - Corporal Punishment', linked from the district's board policy page https://lcsd.k12.ms.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1568671&type=d&pREC_ID=1747985. fetch_document returned 437480 bytes, application/pdf, 1 page. The document's own dates: Status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 11/18/2013, Last Revised Date 08/19/2019, Last Reviewed Date 03/20/2025, printed 03/24/2025. Footer reads 'Board Policy Manual Lincoln County School District'. Input's nces_id 2802640 / nces_name 'LINCOLN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' matches this district, so it is retained; website lcsd.k12.ms.us also matched and was used."},{"nces_id":"2802670","name":"Long Beach School District","county":"Harrison","status":"silent","quote":null,"source":"https://www.lbsdk12.com/en-US/student-handbook-b9727978","last_verified":"2026-09-26","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.lbsdk12.com/en-US/student-handbook-b9727978","says":"silent"}],"notes":"1 document found by searching for the district's handbook, code of conduct and board policy and read in full on 2026-09-26; none mentions corporal punishment. State law permits the practice where a district has not prohibited it, so with no written rule it runs on custom; the board policy manual was not located by search or vendor lookup. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2802700","name":"Louisville Municipal School District","county":"Winston","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure.\nCorporal punishment shall be administered by the principal, assistant principal or teacher and shall be administered\nin front of another school employee. Corporal punishment shall not be administered in the presence of other\nstudents.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/beef73f108144a788e56130397376f8f.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Recorded under its current name; the scan row said 'Winston County Schools'. There is no separate \"Winston County School District\" today: Winston County's schools and Louisville City schools were consolidated in 1960 into the LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose boundaries are the county's (CCD 2022 id 2802700; its schools include Nanih Waiya K-12 and Noxapater K-12, the county schools). Input row was paired with nces_id 2803150 / nces_name NEWTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT and website newton.k12.ms.us -- a different district in a different county; discarded. Site I used: https://www.louisville.k12.ms.us. Source is the district's \"2026-2027 Student Handbook\" PDF linked from https://www.louisville.k12.ms.us/resources. fetch_document returned 5232725 bytes, application/pdf, 65 pages, 173289 characters, text layer present; cover page 1 reads \"2026-2027 Student Handbook\". The quoted Corporal Punishment section is on PDF page 40 (printed handbook page 37) and the handbook labels it \"(SB Policy JCD)\", but the board's own manual files it under JDB, which is what I recorded. OPT-OUT, so \"allows\", not consent_required. Verbatim from the same page: \"If a parent or guardian does not want corporal punishment administered to a student as a means of discipline, then the principal should be notified in writing.\" and, under \"Refusal of Corporal Punishment\": \"Upon refusal of corporal punishment, the student will automatically be added to the No Paddle list.\" and \"Note: To remove a child from the No Paddle list, a parent must come to the school office and put the request to paddle in writing.\" Refusing paddling carries a substitute penalty (K-2 sent home for the day as an unexcused out-of-school suspension; grades 3-12 ISR or up to 3 days OSS). Corroborated against board policy: Simbli site 36031741 (louisville.msbapolicy.org -> Index.aspx?S=36031741; header reads \"Louisville Municipal School District\"), Policy JDB Corporal Punishment, ADOPTED, original 07/19/2011, last revised 08/13/2024, last reviewed 08/11/2026, opening \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure...\". Read in a browser; fetch_simbli_policy was blocked by an Imperva challenge throughout this run."},{"nces_id":"2802730","name":"Lowndes County School District","county":"Lowndes","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment – (Corporal punishment may be administered to students without disabilities in accordance with district policy and applicable state law. Its use is not mandatory, and school principals are not required to implement or offer corporal punishment as a disciplinary option).","source":"https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/1559198/9fd8f208-858f-11ee-a0d1-0a58a9feac02/3136456/b17c4f44-a0be-11f1-a94b-0a58a9feac02/file/STUDENT%20HANDBOOK%2026-27%20%20Revised%208-25-26.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Input row's nces_id 2802550 / 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / leecountyschools.us belong to another district; nces_id left null. Real district site: https://www.lowndes.k12.ms.us (found by me). Source is 'STUDENT HANDBOOK 26-27 Revised 8-25-26' from https://www.lowndes.k12.ms.us/parents/handbooks-and-forms, which 302-redirects to the campussuite S3 URL cited (machine-fetchable; fetch_document: 1,434,652 bytes, application/pdf, 60 pages, 158,519 chars; hit on PDF page 38, printed page 30, under 'DISCIPLINE SANCTIONS', item 2). BOARD POLICY AGREES and is the authority: Simbli Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', Lowndes County School District, Original Adopted Date 05/08/2006, Last Revised Date 09/13/2019, at https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031742&revid=UUYy3IGQhCyslshrNbda1IogA==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false (read in Chrome; reached via lowndes.msbapolicy.org -> S=36031742; page title confirms the district). It opens 'Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure ...', allows administration 'by the school principal, assistant principal, or a teacher', and contains NO parental-permission requirement - which is why this is 'allows' and not 'consent_required'. OPT-IN/OPT-OUT CAUTION: the district also publishes a signature form, 'Statement to Parents and Corporal Punishment' (https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/1559198/9fd8f208-858f-11ee-a0d1-0a58a9feac02/2821464/3799a446-49ff-11ef-92cf-0a58a9feac02/file/Statement%20to%20Parents%20and%20Corporal%20Punishment.pdf, 95,780 bytes, application/pdf, 1 page), which offers a YES/NO choice: '____________NO, I do not want corporal punishment used on my child. I understand that if my child's behavior is severe enough to warrant corporal punishment, he/she may be suspended from school.' / '____________YES, I give my permission for corporal punishment to be used with my child, and I ask that it be used, when possible, rather than suspension or detention.' Because board policy imposes no permission precondition, I read the form as an opt-out election rather than an opt-in gate."},{"nces_id":"2802790","name":"Madison County Schools","county":"Madison","status":"consent_required","quote":"Corporal punishment may be administered by either the principal or his/her designee, but in all cases, another certified staff member must be a witness. Parents shall be contacted for approval prior to corporal punishment being administered.","source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1762369097/madisonschoolscom/cpxg29tkgmkj451x7uze/2025-2026StudentHandbook-110525.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO WEBSITE IN THE FEDERAL FILE. Found by searching the name: Madison County Schools, 476 Highland Colony Parkway, Ridgeland, MS 39157, site www.madison-schools.com. Do NOT confuse with Madison County Schools, Alabama (mcssk12.org), which turns up first in searches. SOURCE: STUDENT HANDBOOK 2025-2026, 'Corporal Punishment' section, handbook page 29 (PDF page 31). Fetched: 1,773,214 bytes, application/pdf, 96 pages (fetch_document and plain curl + pdftotext agree). CLASSIFICATION IS GENUINELY MIXED AND A REVIEWER SHOULD CHECK IT: I filed consent_required because numbered requirement 2 (the quote) requires affirmative parental approval in advance of each administration. However, the same section OPENS with 'The Madison County Board of Education has adopted a policy allowing reasonable corporal punishment of a student as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the school board. No corporal punishment will be administered for Special Education or 504 students.', and numbered requirement 6 ADDITIONALLY provides an annual written opt-out: 'At the beginning of each school year, a parent or legal guardian may request exemption from corporal punishment for his/her child. Such a request must be made in writing to the principal's office and will be placed in the child's cumulative folder.' If the project weights the opt-out clause over the per-incident approval clause, this record should be 'allows'. The board policy itself could not be read: Madison's Simbli manual (madison.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com S=36031743) is login-gated, unlike Lafayette's and Natchez-Adams's."},{"nces_id":"2802820","name":"Marion County Schools","county":"Marion","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal Punishment Board Policy JDB and JD Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/43e9861e829449fa8dca4924d34a8909.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Source is the district's own '2026-2027 Board Approved Student Parent Handbook'. Fetched via fetch_document: 2,543,064 bytes, application/pdf, 99 pages, good text layer; quote is on PDF page 66, and the handbook's own table of contents lists 'Corporal Punishment 66'. The discipline definitions on PDF page 69 add: 'Corporal Punishment – Student receives a paddling of not more than 3 licks.' Corporal punishment is also listed as a consequence for the 5th and 6th tardy (PDF page 25). Searched the handbook for 'written permission', 'parental consent', 'opt out' and 'in writing the inclusion' — there is NO parental permission or opt-out mechanism for corporal punishment, so this is 'allows', not 'consent_required'. INPUT ROW WAS MISMATCHED: nces_name was 'LAMAR COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' and website was lamarcountyschools.org, a different district in my own slice, so nces_id 2802400 was dropped rather than filed wrong. Site actually used: https://www.marionk12.org (Marion County School District, 1010 Highway 13 North, Columbia MS; Columbia School District is the separate city district in the same county). Board policy corroborates: Simbli S=36031744 (marion.msbapolicy.org), page title 'Marion County School District', lists 'JDB Corporal Punishment' last revised 07/30/2019."},{"nces_id":"2802850","name":"Marshall County School District","county":"Marshall","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031745&revid=f5njMeOc24krLMMK2UHLSQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Marshall County School District (MS) board policy JDB Corporal Punishment, read via fetch_simbli_policy (site 36031745; https://marshall.msbapolicy.org/ 301-redirects to https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031745, and marshallcountysd.org links marshall.msbapolicy.org as its policy site). Simbli reports district 'Marshall County School District', status ADOPTED, originally adopted 01/01/1999, LAST REVISED 09/08/2026 - the board touched this policy twelve days before this scan and kept it permissive. 3,733 characters, 0 attachments. NO parental consent and NO opt-out provision. The policy does carry a disability carve-out: 'School personnel are prohibited from using corporal punishment on any student with a disability. A student with a disability is any student who has an IEP or Section 504 plan.' It also requires that it be used 'only after less stringent measures such as counseling, parental conferences and other forms of discipline have failed', and permits administration by 'the school principal, assistant principal, or a teacher' in the presence of another school employee. Related policies with the same 09/08/2026 revision date: JDA Discipline Plan and JCD(2) Student Conduct -- Discipline Plan; neither lists corporal punishment in the district's Level I-V consequence ladder. Name check: this is the COUNTY district (122 S. Spring St., Holly Springs), distinct from Holly Springs School District; Simbli, the handbook and the district site all self-identify as Marshall County School District. The district's 2026-2027 Parent-Student Handbook mentions corporal punishment only by quoting MS Code 37-11-57 verbatim (pp.37, 43), so the handbook alone could not establish this; JDB is the district's own policy. Read only after the fleet-wide Simbli bot-challenge outage (issue_8839706bb552) cleared; roughly an hour of spaced retries on this slice returned the 418-byte challenge before it lifted. District website served a 3,038-byte Apptegy/Finalsite 'Client Challenge' to browser User-Agents; a crawler/curl User-Agent returned the real page (filed as issue_3a478491a2bd)."},{"nces_id":"2802880","name":"Mccomb School District","county":"Pike","status":"silent","quote":null,"source":"https://4.files.edl.io/7593/07/02/26/205335-002260c0-256c-42d7-a143-00ac76ea3670.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[],"notes":"Handbook found by crawling the district site, read in full on 2026-09-25; it does not mention corporal punishment. The board policy manual was not located after search, crawl and vendor lookup. The district reported 74 students struck in 2023-24 (CRDC). State law permits the practice where a district has not prohibited it, so with no written rule it runs on custom. A records request for the board policy is the next step."},{"nces_id":"2802940","name":"Monroe County School District","county":"Monroe","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031748&revid=X3YSBFF8r997skwRQu1prQ==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Real site: https://www.mcsd.us/ (Monroe County School District, Amory; serves Hamilton, Hatley, Smithville, Gattman). Per the coordinator's Mississippi tip and the brief, nces_id is filed as null: the federal row paired this district with nces_name 'FORREST COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' (website fcsd.us), a different district, so the id and website in the input cannot be trusted. The district's own homepage links its board policy manual to Simbli S=36031748, and monroe.msbapolicy.org redirects to the same S number; Chrome confirms the manual header reads 'Monroe County School District' over the mcsd.us logo. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 07/02/2002, Last Revised Date 10/07/2019. fetch_simbli_policy was bot-challenged on this site across roughly a dozen attempts over the session, so I read the policy in Chrome and attached the verbatim text as source_text, per the brief. NO MACHINE-FETCHABLE ALTERNATIVE EXISTS: resolve_handbook found nothing on mcsd.us, and the three attendance-centre sites (hatley.mcsd.us, hamilton.mcsd.us, smithville.mcsd.us) publish no handbook or policy documents at all - I checked each one's links directly. Classified 'allows': the policy permits corporal punishment and contains NO parental consent requirement and NO opt-out provision of any kind - unlike Lawrence, Wayne, Grenada and Jackson in this same slice, which all have one. That absence is worth a reviewer's attention. MACHINE-FETCHABLE CORROBORATION (the Simbli source above is JavaScript-only and was answering bot challenges through 2026-09-20): the district's own 2026-2027 Student Handbook, linked as \"Student Handbook\" from https://www.mcsd.us/student_corner, at https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=18JoP-ku2iC-ILhLUmf59jx7MTWnGBKk5 (751,612 bytes, PDF, 72 pages, no OCR needed), carries the same rule under FORMS OF DISCIPLINE: \"Corporal punishment- Spanking or paddling. Any corporal punishment shall be reasonable and moderate and may not be administered maliciously or for the purpose of revenge.\" Verified against the source on 2026-09-20."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Montgomery County Schools","county":"Montgomery","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":null,"method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Status carried over from the pre-2026 map with no source and not verified. The first districts re-checked in 2026 were wrong in this data more often than not, so it is recorded as unknown until someone opens the policy. The previous unsourced value is kept in legacy_status."},{"nces_id":"2803030","name":"Natchez-Adams School District","county":"Adams","status":"bans","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT The Natchez-Adams School District does not allow corporal punishment.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031750&revid=djkw4khjnqE9YMcwEcGgMQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2803060","name":"NESHOBA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Neshoba","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student in the Neshoba County School District is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031751&revid=gh2UvQbbKuhQX6QWkrWgpw%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2803090","name":"NETTLETON SCHOOL DIST","county":"Lee","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031752&revid=KYJWEnr4K69slsh89d1RojE2g%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24 from the manual this district links from its own website, so its identity is the district's own link rather than a name match. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order."},{"nces_id":"2803120","name":"New Albany Public Schools","county":"New Albany","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031753&revid=dIv1hcE0JoSWK4KGkPBGYA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-20","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Simbli site S=36031753 (reached from newalbany.msbapolicy.org, which 302s to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031753; the page header confirms 'New Albany Public School District'). The shared fetch_simbli_policy tool was tried roughly ten times over 100 minutes and returned Simbli's bot-challenge page every single time, so per the brief this one policy was read in a browser and the verbatim text is supplied as source_text. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', Status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 07/01/2014, Last Reviewed Date 11/03/2025 (the J. Students listing shows Last Revised 07/01/2014 / Last Reviewed 11/03/2025). The policy has no parental consent and no opt-out clause, so 'allows'. It bars use on students with an IEP or Section 504 plan and cites MS Code 37-11-57 (1997) and 11-46-9."},{"nces_id":"2803150","name":"Newton County Schools","county":"Newton","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031755&revid=ROxjJcHHuhibzpO4pdeplusyg%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Newton COUNTY School District (CCD 2022 id 2803150, website newton.k12.ms.us) -- not Newton Municipal School District (2803180), which is a separate district; the Simbli page header reads \"Newton County School District\". Input's nces_id/nces_name happened to be correct for this row. Board policy manual found from the district's own Board Policies page (https://newton.k12.ms.us/69281_2), which links https://newton.msbapolicy.org/ -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031755. Policy JDB Corporal Punishment, status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 03/08/2010, Last Reviewed Date 11/10/2025 (no revision date shown). Read in a browser: fetch_simbli_policy returned an Imperva bot-protection challenge on every attempt during this run, and simbli is JavaScript-only, so the cited URL is not curl-fetchable; full verbatim policy attached as source_text. No parental consent or opt-out clause appears in the policy -> \"allows\". The district's 2026-27 Student Handbook (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZEa8rSnCVKEzk-UZBWXZuOIEzxr50HP/view) is NOT publicly shared -- both the project fetch_document and a direct curl of drive.usercontent.google.com were redirected to a Google sign-in page, so the handbook could not be used."},{"nces_id":"2803180","name":"NEWTON MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Newton","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031754&revid=4F4DJZkUjsxhisSf5Dg8Lg%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2800186","name":"NORTH BOLIVAR CONS SCHOOL DIST","county":"Bolivar","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT – POLICY JDB Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure with the following requirements:","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/44f3d272693542658a6dfd67e8b1c34b","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for the district's board policy on corporal punishment and read 2026-09-24. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory; an ambiguous name was not recorded."},{"nces_id":"2803210","name":"NORTH PANOLA SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Panola","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031757&revid=Sh6FPtjpIVrFNVT182vsXg%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2803240","name":"NORTH PIKE SCHOOL DIST","county":"Pike","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031758&revid=TXJmXlHxs8toQJOqC0mpUg%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-21","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Federal CRDC 2023-24 reported this district struck students; this is the first record filed for it. fetch_simbli_policy {site:36031758} was blocked by Simbli's Imperva bot challenge across several spaced retries, part of the sustained fleet-wide block (see issue_c3607ea94dbb, 'every Alabama/Mississippi site ... hours not minutes'). Recovered the text through fetch_document on the same ViewPolicy URL, which returned the crew server's own Simbli cache (extracted_by simbli-api, fetched_at 2026-09-20T05:57:08Z, cached true, bytes 3777, sha256 a85df6b6723db2b06363041897746805abb28463506913c523b0e115a73b59f9) rather than a fresh live fetch -- this is the same cache fetch_simbli_policy itself reads from, not a bypass of the rate limit. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', status ADOPTED. IMPORTANT DATE CAVEAT: the district's title-index (captured earlier in this same session, before the block, via fetch_simbli_policy site 36031758) lists JDB last_revised as 07/01/2019, but the cached body text itself contains a 'prohibited ... on any student with a disability' clause worded identically to Clarksdale MSD's JDB (last_revised 06/28/2024) -- i.e. the same 2024-era MSBA template update. The 07/01/2019 date is very likely stale and I could not confirm the page's own printed Original/Last-Revised header (that header is not part of the extracted body text and the live page could not be reached to screenshot it). Leaving policy_adopted/policy_revised null rather than guessing; next contributor should open the source URL once Simbli is reachable and copy the printed 'Original Adopted Date' / 'Last Revised Date' line. Corroborating evidence: district's JDA 'Discipline Plan' (read in full via the MCP tool) lists 'Corporal Punishment' as an active Class II/III disciplinary consequence option, and JD 'Student Discipline' points to JDB for the operative rule. Contact: district address/phone from the district's own Board of Trustees page (which also lists the district's general office address/phone in its footer); Board President Tabitha Wilson's published email used as board_email (no separate superintendent listed -- the district's home page currently runs an active 'Superintendent Search' survey/banner, so superintendent is left null rather than naming the Assistant Superintendent/Title IX Coordinator, who is not the district's chief officer). No dedicated contact-us page URL was found distinct from the board page; contact_page left null."},{"nces_id":"2803270","name":"NORTH TIPPAH SCHOOL DIST","county":"Tippah","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment administered by a teacher or principal may be substituted for ISS at the discretion of Principal ● OSS may be used instead of ISS on any given infraction at Principal’s discretion ● A specific threat may result in up to 10 days OSS and a possible disciplinary hearing.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/32a6b22e54f340ea8b3b08cf91a09da3.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for, walking to, or OCR-reading the district's own discipline document, read 2026-09-25. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2803300","name":"NOXUBEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Noxubee","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031760&revid=TSofv35FBOtrhT4HshOj0A%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2803360","name":"Ocean Springs School District","county":"Jackson","status":"silent","quote":null,"source":"https://www.ossdms.org/student-hub/handbooks/handbook-landing/~board/student-handbooks/post/bullying","last_verified":"2026-09-26","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.ossdms.org/student-hub/handbooks/handbook-landing/~board/student-handbooks/post/bullying","says":"silent"},{"kind":"board_policy","url":"https://www.ossdms.org/student-hub/handbooks/oshs/district-policies","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.ossdms.org/student-hub/handbooks/handbook-landing/~board/student-handbooks/post/student-rights-responsibilites","says":"silent"}],"notes":"3 documents found by searching for the district's handbook, code of conduct and board policy and read in full on 2026-09-26; none mentions corporal punishment. State law permits the practice where a district has not prohibited it, so with no written rule it runs on custom; the board policy manual was not located by search or vendor lookup. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2803390","name":"Okolona Municipal Separate School District","county":"Chickasaw","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the Okolona School board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031762&revid=LgM1T6cc9asxl1l625nIsw%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":" Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Oktibbeha County Schools","county":"Oktibbeha","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":null,"method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Status carried over from the pre-2026 map with no source and not verified. The first districts re-checked in 2026 were wrong in this data more often than not, so it is recorded as unknown until someone opens the policy. The previous unsourced value is kept in legacy_status."},{"nces_id":"2803450","name":"Oxford School District","county":"Lafayette","status":"bans","quote":"The use of corporal punishment in the Oxford School District is forbidden.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031763&revid=CHPJgGoUp7EcGc9WyxTwNw%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.oxfordsd.org/resources/family-resources/student-handbooks","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.oxfordsd.org/resources/family-resources/student-handbooks/elementary-handbook","says":"silent"},{"kind":"other","url":"https://www.oxfordsd.org/departments/student-services/discipline-the-disciplinary-matrix","says":"silent"},{"kind":"other","url":"https://www.oxfordsd.org/resources/code-of-conduct/introduction","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Board policy JDB forbids corporal punishment. Adopted 6/12/1980 and last review 10/28/2024 are printed on the policy. Reached from oxford.msbapolicy.org. Quote verified against the cached source; status bans."},{"nces_id":"2803480","name":"Pascagoula-Gautier School District","county":"Jackson","status":"bans","quote":"PGSD employees and volunteers are prohibited from administering corporal punishment to students attending the PGSD schools and from causing such punishment to be administered.","source":"https://files.smartsites.parentsquare.com/9982/pgsd_board_policy_manual_2003_revised10.pdf","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"board_policy","url":"https://www.pgsd.ms/board-policy-and-agendas","says":"silent"}],"notes":"2024-2025 policies and procedures manual, policy M-241 inside IDDFB, prohibits corporal punishment. Simbli S=36031764 returned HTTP 500. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2803510","name":"Pass Christian Public School District","county":"Harrison","status":"bans","quote":"School Personnel in the Pass Christian School District shall not administer corporal punishment to students.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031765&revid=nWV7Jd2YH0J1ecFMXplusvW8Q%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.pc.k12.ms.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1440898&type=d&pREC_ID=1699266","says":"silent"},{"kind":"board_policy","url":"https://www.pc.k12.ms.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=1196820&type=d&pREC_ID=1438593","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Board policy JDB prohibits corporal punishment. Header dates 02/13/2014. Reached from passchristian.msbapolicy.org. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2803520","name":"Pearl Public School District","county":"Rankin","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031766&revid=tIU0qbuto8YUHYFkjTpXsA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2803540","name":"Pearl River County Schools","county":"Pearl River","status":"bans","quote":"The use of corporal punishment in the Pearl River County School District is prohibited.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031767&revid=P2HORsZhDK5JsUWPXkfplus4Q%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy JDB prohibits corporal punishment. Header dates 02/05/2015 and 03/14/2024. Handbook ban sentence has no date. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2803570","name":"Perry County Schools","county":"Perry","status":"consent_required","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT is an option in the disciplinary program of the Perry County Schools and will be administered in accordance with the policy of the Perry County School District. The district has established procedures under which a parent/legal guardian will indicate whether he/she gives permission for his/her child to receive corporal punishment as appropriate under the assertive discipline plan outlined in the student handbook and in accordance with district policy. Alternative disciplinary actions will be required for students whose parents/legal guardians have not checked and signed the required Corporal Punishment Permission statement.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/ccb1994f93d14b85a3d1eb229b541fc8.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"OPT-IN, so classified consent_required rather than allows. Source is the Perry County School District Student Handbook. Fetched via fetch_document: 1,829,912 bytes, application/pdf, 87 pages, good text layer; the quoted passage is on PDF page 49 (item 2 of the discipline definitions). A parallel section on PDF page 48 states the same procedure but phrases the fallback as parents who 'have declined in writing corporal punishment permission'; the page-49 wording is the operative one and is unambiguous — a parent must have CHECKED AND SIGNED the permission statement or the student gets alternative discipline. Board policy JDB (Simbli S=36031768 via perry.msbapolicy.org, page title 'Perry County School District', adopted 09/02/2002, last review 10/10/18) carries the same 'will indicate whether he/she gives permission' sentence but its follow-on sentence is garbled in the source, which is why I quoted the handbook. Board policy JDB URL: https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031768&revid=Iu9peZmF7eLy7bXZkkcZ8Q==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false . Handbook also specifies 'A maximum of (3) three licks may be administered' (PDF page 48). INPUT ROW WAS MISMATCHED: nces_name 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT', website leecountyschools.us, so nces_id 2802550 was dropped. Site actually used: https://www.pcsdms.com (Perry County School District, New Augusta MS; Richton School District is the separate municipal district in the same county)."},{"nces_id":"2803530","name":"Petal School District","county":"Forrest","status":"bans","quote":"T he use of corporal punishment in the Petal School District is prohibited.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031769&revid=lhwslshg2OZJfovQSXBbF8l7Q%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"other","url":"https://www.petalschools.com/students-fams/student-dress-code","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.petalschools.com/athletics-activities/activities-handbook","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.petalschools.com/students-fams/handbooks","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Board policy JDB prohibits corporal punishment. Header dates 08/14/2012 and 07/18/2019. Reached from petal.msbapolicy.org. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2803630","name":"Picayune School District","county":"Pearl River","status":"allows","quote":"(2) Corporal punishment administered in a reasonable manner, or any reasonable action to maintain control and discipline of students taken by a public school teacher, assistant teacher, principal, or assistant principal acting within the scope of his employment or function and in accordance with any state or federal laws or rules or regulations of the State Board of Education or the local school board or governing board of a charter school does not constitute negligence or child abuse.","source":"https://irp.cdn-website.com/49e9f275/files/uploaded/PJHS_Handbook_2425.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for the district's policy document and read 2026-09-26 (Mothership sweep of MS). `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Pike County Schools","county":"Pike","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO SUCH DISTRICT EXISTS. Mississippi has no 'Pike County School District'. Pike County is served by three independent districts with separate boards: North Pike School District, South Pike School District and McComb School District. Verified three ways: (1) MDE official District Directory https://mdek12.org/dd/ (fetched server-side, text/html, 103,864 bytes, updated 09/14/2026) - matches for 'North Pike', 'South Pike' and 'McComb' with '(Pike County)' annotations, and no match at all for 'Pike County School'; (2) Wikipedia List of school districts in Mississippi lists only those three for Pike County; (3) the MSBA policy service has northpike.msbapolicy.org (Simbli S=36031758), southpike.msbapolicy.org (S=36031787) and mccomb.msbapolicy.org (S=36031746), while pikecounty.msbapolicy.org falls through to the generic MSBA gate. INPUT ROW IS MISMATCHED: nces_name 'AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT', nces_id 2800420 and website www.amite.k12.ms.us all belong to Amite County, which is a different row in this same slice; nces_id left null. No record filed for a district that does not exist; the three real Pike County districts should be scanned under their own names."},{"nces_id":"2803690","name":"PONTOTOC CITY SCHOOLS","county":"Pontotoc","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031773&revid=JMYGW5IEJUTOV2Whd7x0lQ%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2803660","name":"Pontotoc County Schools","county":"Pontotoc","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031774&revid=Um1X60q1N6TGFb1la04UHg==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Input row had no website or nces_id. Found the district at https://www.pcsd.ms/ (search: 'Pontotoc County School District Mississippi'). Board policy via pontotoc.msbapolicy.org, which redirects to Simbli S=36031774; Chrome confirms the manual header reads 'Pontotoc County School District - Relentlessly Pursuing the Exceptional'. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 01/01/1999, Last Revised Date 06/11/2019, Last Reviewed Date 02/10/2026. Read in Chrome because fetch_simbli_policy was bot-challenged; verbatim policy attached as source_text. MACHINE-FETCHABLE CORROBORATION: the district's 2025-2026 Teacher Handbook, https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/3854/PCSD/5864273/2025-2026_Teacher_Handbook.pdf (797,250 bytes, application/pdf, 55 pages, 'Revised June 2025'), reproduces policy JDB on PDF page 11 under the heading 'Corporal Punishment (JDB)' in nearly identical wording. Classified 'allows': no parental consent requirement and no parental opt-out anywhere in the policy. I also searched the teacher handbook for 'parental consent', 'written permission', 'opt out', 'parent may' and 'request in writing' and found no corporal-punishment consent mechanism. The policy does give the STUDENT, not the parent, an out: 'The student has the right to forgo paddling and accept suspension or other disciplinary action at the discretion of the principal.' It also sets an order of disciplinary action in which paddling is step 2 of 5, ahead of Saturday detention and suspension. IMPORTANT: this is the COUNTY district (354 Center Ridge Drive, Pontotoc). Pontotoc City School District (pontotoc.school) is a separate district with a separate board and was not examined."},{"nces_id":"2803750","name":"Prentiss County Schools","county":"Prentiss","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031776&revid=tU6Qbg30lDyjrlJ4vHfLeg%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-20","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Read with fetch_simbli_policy site 36031776. Policy JDB Corporal Punishment: originally adopted 09/19/2016, last revised 05/20/2019, status ADOPTED. Identity confirmed twice: http://prentiss.msbapolicy.org 301-redirects to simbli Index.aspx?S=36031776, and a plain fetch of that Simbli index page returned the header text 'Prentiss County School District' — so this is the COUNTY district in Booneville, not the town of Prentiss in Jefferson Davis County. The input row carries no website; the district's own site prentissco.k12.ms.us is behind a client-challenge. No parental consent or opt-out provision in the policy."},{"nces_id":"2803810","name":"Quitman County Schools","county":"Quitman","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031777","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. NOT MACHINE-FETCHABLE, hence source_text. This is policy JDB \"Corporal Punishment\" in the Quitman County School District Board Policy Manual, hosted by the Mississippi School Boards Association on Simbli. Path: quitman.msbapolicy.org (linked from the district's own page qcschools.com/quick-links/polices) redirects to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031777; the policy listing page (PolicyListing.aspx?S=36031777) has the HTML title \"Policy Listing | Quitman County School District\". Policy JDB adopted 12/10/2013, revised 12/10/2013; 521 policies in the manual. Simbli is JavaScript-only and Imperva-challenged (fetch_simbli_policy returned bot-challenge pages on every attempt); the text was retrieved from Simbli's own JSON endpoints /Services/api/PolicyListing/ and /Services/api/ViewPolicy/ (session-token URLs, not durable, which is why they are not cited). Policy JD \"Student Discipline\" (adopted 12/17/2013, revised 12/17/2019) also references corporal punishment. INPUT ROW WAS MIS-MATCHED: nces_id 2804290 / nces_name \"TUNICA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT\" / website tunicak12.org belong to Tunica County, a different district; nces_id left null. The district's real site is qcschools.com (the commonly listed qcsd.k12.ms.us no longer resolves). No student handbook PDF is published on qcschools.com, so no machine-fetchable corroboration was available."},{"nces_id":"2803780","name":"QUITMAN SCHOOL DIST","county":"Clarke","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT policy JDB, board adopted 06/27/2019 The Quitman School Board has adopted a policy allowing reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://campussuite-storage.s3.amazonaws.com/prod/1559202/d3fd737e-97aa-11ee-b7ed-02a6bfeb93bd/2738139/9056b33c-c59b-11ee-9ccf-0a58a9feac02/file/handbook-QSD-Secondary-23-24-062723.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for, walking to, or OCR-reading the district's own discipline document, read 2026-09-25. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2803830","name":"Rankin County School District","county":"Rankin","status":"allows","quote":"The Rankin County Board of Education recognizes the use of corporal punishment by teachers and administrators as a means to correct misconduct of students, to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption, and to further the educational mission of the Board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031779&revid=rRwkfkslshau7MbKHBTmwK0dA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NCES id 2803830 belongs to 'RANKIN CO SCHOOL DIST' (MS), not this district; removed rather than file a wrong id. AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Input row had nces_id/nces_name/website all null. I found the district site myself at https://www.rcsd.ms; resolve_handbook on it reported a Simbli board policy manual, site 36031779, link text \"Policy Manual (opens in new window/tab)\". fetch_simbli_policy with site 36031779 succeeded (JSON-RPC response 11743 bytes) and reported district \"Rankin County School District\". Policy JDB Corporal Punishment, status ADOPTED, originally adopted 09/14/1994, last revised 08/10/2022. The policy text names \"The Rankin County Board of Education\", confirming the document belongs to this district. Simbli is JavaScript-only and behind an Imperva challenge, so the cited URL is not curl-fetchable; the project's fetch_simbli_policy tool reads it and the full policy is attached as source_text. No parental consent or opt-out clause anywhere in the policy -> \"allows\". Note the policy still cites \"MS Code 37-11-57, revised July 1, 2019\" for the disability prohibition. nces_id 2803830 supplied by me from the federal CCD 2022 directory (RANKIN CO SCHOOL DIST)."},{"nces_id":"2803870","name":"Richton School District","county":"Perry","status":"allows","quote":"For offenses, they will receive either corporal punishment or OSS as deemed fitting by the Alternative School teacher and the administration.","source":"https://richtonschools.com/wp-content/uploads/25-26-RHS-Student-Handbook.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-25","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"opt_out","documents":[],"notes":"Found by searching for the district's policy document and read 2026-09-26 (Mothership sweep of MS). `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2803900","name":"Scott County School District","county":"Scott","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board. School personnel is prohibited from using corporal punishment on any student with a disability. A student with a disability is any student who has an IEP or Section 504 plan.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031781&revid=R988PCslsho1mFQtXpkelFwog==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-09","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"No parental consent or opt-out provision. Prohibited for any student with an IEP or Section 504 plan. To be used only after less stringent measures (counseling, parent conferences, other discipline) have failed unless the conduct is extreme; administered by the principal, assistant principal, or administrative assistant in the presence of another school employee; paddling must be witnessed by at least one school employee. MSBA policy service on Simbli (scott.msbapolicy.org redirects to simbli.eboardsolutions.com S=36031781, linked from https://www.scott.k12.ms.us/ as 'Board MSBA Policy'). Policy JDB: Original Adopted Date 04/08/2014, Last Revised Date 06/11/2019, Status ADOPTED; cites Miss. Code 37-11-57 and 11-46-9 and Ingraham v. Wright. Related policies in the J section: JD Student Discipline (10/08/2019), JDA Discipline Plan, JCD(2). Simbli listing is JavaScript-rendered; read in Chrome."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Sharkey County Schools","county":"Sharkey","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":null,"method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Status carried over from the pre-2026 map with no source and not verified. The first districts re-checked in 2026 were wrong in this data more often than not, so it is recorded as unknown until someone opens the policy. The previous unsourced value is kept in legacy_status."},{"nces_id":"2803990","name":"Simpson County School District","county":"Simpson","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/5724/Scsd/5fb8abfc-0ac9-4186-ba3d-f3eef44ba23b/ADOPTED_SCSD_K-8_Handbook_2025-2026_7_22_25.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Input row had no nces_id or website. District site found by me: https://www.simpson.k12.ms.us (Mendenhall MS). Source is 'ADOPTED SCSD K-8 Handbook 2025-2026 7 22 25', linked from https://www.simpson.k12.ms.us/page/parent-and-student-resources via the short link https://5il.co/3nbzj; machine-fetchable (fetch_document: 1,913,753 bytes, application/pdf, 93 pages, 256,944 chars; quote on PDF page 74, printed page 72, under the heading 'Corporal Punishment (JDB: Corporal Punishment)'). The 9-12 handbook is the companion document at https://5il.co/3nc0h. Handbook adopted 7/22/25 for 2025-2026. BOARD POLICY AGREES and is the authority: Simbli Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', Simpson County School District, Original Adopted Date 08/16/1990, Last Revised Date 10/10/2019, Last Reviewed Date 10/14/2025, at https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031783&revid=ZudCXVzToevLbtl4mrQ4gA==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false (read in Chrome; reached via simpson.msbapolicy.org -> S=36031783; page title confirms the district). Neither the handbook nor JDB contains any parental opt-in or opt-out provision. The handbook also lists corporal punishment as a first-offence bus consequence: 'First (1st) Offense - Parent Conference and/or corporal punishment and/or loss of bus privileges for three (3) days.' (PDF page 65)."},{"nces_id":"2804020","name":"Smith County Schools","county":"Smith","status":"allows","quote":"In cases of minor rule violations, where suspension is not mandated, corporal punishment (paddling, up to three (3) licks) may be offered to the student in lieu of other punishment; however, corporal punishment is not an option for students with a disability.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/adbcbfcee1984e1ca3286ae954dec683.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Smith County School District Student Handbook, cover reads 'Student Handbook / Smith County School District / John King, Superintendent' and 'Smith County School District 26-27', i.e. the CURRENT 2026-27 edition. Section 'CORPORAL PUNISHMENT' on PDF page 46. Found from the district's own Parents page https://www.smithcountyschools.net/parents. Fetched server-side: 3,754,507 bytes, application/pdf, 66 pages, 153,288 chars of text. The policy continues: 'Students in grades 7-12 (students who do not have an IEP or a 504) may refuse to be paddled. Students who refuse to be paddled will be suspended for 3 days.' That is a student-level refusal, not affirmative parental permission, so 'allows', not 'consent_required'. No adoption or revision date is printed. The district's board policy manual (Simbli site S=36031784, reached via smith.msbapolicy.org) could not be read - see notes; the handbook is the primary source used here."},{"nces_id":"2803960","name":"South Delta School District","county":"Sharkey","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031785&revid=TrqnxKKYXlkBplusNMH1JpluskEw%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2804050","name":"South Panola School District","county":"Panola","status":"allows","quote":"The South Panola School District policy allows corporal punishment under certain conditions. Contact your school for an opt-out form for you to sign if you choose not to have your child paddled.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/5225/Bams/b8765fcc-d296-4094-a195-97e25eaf1bf5/2026---South-Panola-Schools---BMS-Parent-Student-Handbook-v5-7_20.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-09","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"The handbook text frames it as opt-out (\"Contact your school for an opt-out form ... if you choose not to have your child paddled\"). Appendix E is a signed form with two boxes: \"South Panola School District Administration has my permission to use corporal punishment as a means to correct behavior. Prior to issuing corporal punishment, a phone call will be made to the parent/guardian.\" and \"South Panola School District does NOT have my permission to use corporal punishment as a means to correct behavior.\" No witness, administrator, or disability provisions are stated in the handbook; the underlying board policy could not be read (see notes). The district's board policy manual is on MSBA/Simbli (southpanola.msbapolicy.org -> https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031786), but the policy listing redirects to https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Login.aspx?S=36031786 and is not publicly readable, so the status rests on the school handbook, which states district policy. The handbook is the Batesville Middle School (grades 4-5) 2026-2027 Parent/Student Handbook, linked from https://www.spsd.k12.ms.us/o/bams/documents/ (also via short link https://aptg.co/hnYHRQ). It lists corporal punishment as a consequence for 2nd-offense minor bus infractions, 2nd-offense electronic device use, tardies, and vandalism on the disciplinary referral form. Possible internal tension: the discipline section describes an opt-out, while the Appendix E form is worded as permission/no permission; recorded here as allows (opt-out) per the policy sentence. Other school handbooks (SPHS, BJHS, BIS, Pope, BAES) were not found in their document folders. District office is in Batesville, MS."},{"nces_id":"2804080","name":"South Pike School Dist","county":"Magnolia","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT: Public school administrators and teachers are empowered to administer corporal punishment to students when deemed necessary. The Supreme Court upheld this disciplinary procedure in Baker vs. Owen. Only principals and assistant principals will administer this method of punishment in the presence of another certified employee. Parents have the right to request that school officials not administer corporal punishment to their children, but the parents must assume the responsibility for the behavior of the student.","source":"https://4.files.edl.io/e442/08/06/26/132426-8200f04c-2452-43f7-a8f9-248fd5f47f3e.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"South Pike School District 2026-27 Student Handbook, linked as '2026-27 Student Handbook' from https://www.southpike.org/ (Edlio). Fetched: 2,657,005 bytes, application/pdf, 126 pages; quote on PDF page 82 (printed page 77). Opt-out on parental request, so 'allows'. Board policy JDB is on Simbli site 36031787 (southpike.msbapolicy.org) but Simbli was returning a bot challenge to both the crew tool and a real browser for the whole session; see issue_0314d441932d. CONTACT: taken from the district's own site on 2026-09-19; email left null where the site publishes only named individuals' addresses or a web form rather than a general/superintendent's office address."},{"nces_id":"2804110","name":"South Tippah School Dist","county":"Ripley","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031788&revid=T1OZOJHslshBOLxhurnQI7A8w%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-20","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Read with fetch_simbli_policy site 36031788. Policy JDB Corporal Punishment: originally adopted 10/05/2010, last revised 06/11/2019, status ADOPTED, 3,777 chars. Site identity confirmed two ways: http://southtippah.msbapolicy.org 301-redirects to simbli Index.aspx?S=36031788, and the district's own board page https://southtippahschools.com/board-of-education/ links Board Policy to http://southtippah.msbapolicy.org/default.aspx. No parental consent or opt-out provision in the policy."},{"nces_id":"2800189","name":"Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District","county":"Oktibbeha","status":"bans","quote":"Corporal punishment of a student is not permitted in the Starkville Oktibbeha Consolidated School District.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031789&revid=R4vDJplusPQEoqSs7N6ojXO1Q==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Recorded under its current name; the scan row said 'Oktibbeha County Schools'. SUCCESSOR DISTRICT - READ BEFORE MERGING. The Oktibbeha County School District no longer exists: it was consolidated with the Starkville School District into the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District (SOCSD) effective July 2015, and there is no separate Oktibbeha County district, website or policy manual today (oktibbeha.msbapolicy.org resolves but is a dead generic page with no policy content, 42,559 bytes, text/html, no corporal punishment text). This record therefore reports the successor district's policy, which is what now governs the schools in the former Oktibbeha County district. Source: SOCSD Board Policy Manual, Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment, Status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 06/07/2005, Last Reviewed Date 04/14/2026; the policy body is a single sentence, quoted in full. Reached via starkville.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031789; page title confirms 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District'. NOT MACHINE-FETCHABLE: Simbli is JavaScript-only and was serving Imperva challenges to fetch_simbli_policy and to curl, so it was read in Chrome; source_text is the complete policy body. This is a prohibition in a state that permits corporal punishment."},{"nces_id":"2804170","name":"Stone County Schools","county":"Stone","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal Punishment (K-5 only): Corporal punishment is a means of discipline that may be used by the principal and/or designee. It is the responsibility of the parent/guardian to inform the school principal in writing at the beginning of each school year, or when necessary during the school year, that he/she does not wish corporal punishment used on his/her child/ward.","source":"https://www.stoneschools.org/sites/stoneschools/files/2025-06/Parents%20and%20Students/Student%20Links/25_26%20Student%20Handbook%202nd%20Reading%20Approved.docx%20(2)%20(1).pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Opt-OUT (parent must write in to refuse), therefore 'allows', not 'consent_required'. Source is the district's board-approved 2025-2026 Student Handbook ('25/26 Student Handbook 2nd Reading Approved'). Fetched via fetch_document: 2,109,375 bytes, application/pdf, 62 pages, good text layer; quote is on PDF page 43. The handbook limits corporal punishment to grades K-5 ('Student suspension, expulsion, and corporal punishment (grades K-5 only) shall be used as disciplinary measures only after all other methods have been tried', PDF page 41; discipline ladder steps 2 and 3 offer 'corporal punishment (K-5 only)', PDF page 42). NOTE the handbook and the board policy differ in scope: board policy JDB (Simbli S=36031790 found via resolve_handbook on the district's own https://www.stoneschools.org/about/school-board page, page title 'Stone County School District', adopted 10/07/2013, revised 12/01/2014, last reviewed 03/02/2026) permits 'Reasonable corporal punishment of a student' with no grade restriction and no opt-out clause. Both point to 'allows'; the handbook is the more recent board action and is machine-fetchable, so it is cited. Board policy URL: https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031790&revid=NVhFgD5Rx1Reye56j1zGslshw==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false . INPUT ROW WAS MISMATCHED: nces_name 'NEWTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT', website newton.k12.ms.us, so nces_id 2803150 was dropped. Site actually used: https://www.stoneschools.org."},{"nces_id":"2800187","name":"Sunflower County Schools","county":"Sunflower","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment will not be administered to students whose parent(s)/guardian(s) submit written objection.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/c5781a9e874246518be0a46e9dfd6d26.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"District's full name is Sunflower County Consolidated School District. Source is its CURRENT Student Handbook 2026-2027, section headed 'CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (JDB Corporal Punishment)' on printed page 39-40 (PDF page 40). Fetched server-side and with curl: HTTP 200, application/pdf, 3,960,860 bytes, 139 pages, real text layer; page 34 of the PDF names 'SUNFLOWER COUNTY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT' and carries the 2026-2027 district calendar. Linked from https://www.sunflower.k12.ms.us/handbooks as 'Student Handbook 2026-2027'. This is OPT-OUT (written objection removes the child), so classified 'allows'. The same section specifies 'the use of an approved paddle and up to 3 hits on the bottom of the student' and bars its use on students with an IEP or 504 plan, and the 5-Level Infraction and Consequence Guide on printed page 32 lists 'Corporal Punishment' as a Level 1 and Level 2 consequence. The prior 2023-2024 handbook (https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/45f63ad664364a9398382993b3fd0632.pdf, 2,862,138 bytes, 107 pages) carries word-for-word the same section, so this language is stable. BOARD POLICY CROSS-CHECK (read in a browser; fetch_simbli_policy was bot-challenged): sccsd.msbapolicy.org -> Simbli S=36031791, page title 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Sunflower County Consolidated School District', Original Adopted 09/15/2015, Last Revised 07/22/2019 - permits corporal punishment of non-disabled students and contains no consent language, so the handbook's opt-out is an addition, not a contradiction. The Simbli link was taken from the district's own /boardinfo page. nces_id 2800187 = SUNFLOWER CTY CONS SCHOOL DISTRICT, matches, kept."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Tallahatchie County Schools","county":"Tallahatchie","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO SUCH DISTRICT EXISTS. Tallahatchie County is served by two separate school districts with separate boards: East Tallahatchie School District (Charleston, https://www.etsd.k12.ms.us/) and West Tallahatchie School District (Sumner, https://www.wtsdschools.org/). There is no county-wide 'Tallahatchie County School District', so this row cannot be resolved to one policy, and per the brief I will not carry either district's answer to it. Places searched: web search for 'Tallahatchie County School District Mississippi'; tallahatchie.msbapolicy.org and westtallahatchie.msbapolicy.org (both fall through to the generic MSBA portal page, i.e. no such Simbli site); https://www.etsd.k12.ms.us/student_handbook; https://www.wtsdschools.org/ (resolve_handbook found nothing - Apptegy JS site), https://www.wtsdschools.org/page/handbooks and https://www.wtsdschools.org/o/wtsd/documents (no document links exposed). FOR THE CONSTITUENT DISTRICTS, not filed as this record's status: (a) East Tallahatchie SD - board policy manual is Simbli S=36031703 via easttallahatchie.msbapolicy.org (not read); its 2024-2025 Student Handbook, https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/84ad3aa1207f4c3aa302d5f31e0e67b3.pdf (1,572,161 bytes, application/pdf, 68 pages), permits corporal punishment - PDF page 29 sets 'Second Offense: Corporal punishment or one day of in-school suspension (ISS)' for minor offenses, and PDF page 32 reads 'Corporal Punishment: Administered in the principal's office or hallway with another staff member present / Refusal to accept corporal punishment may result in suspension'; I found no consent or opt-out form in it. (b) West Tallahatchie SD - I could not reach any primary source. Recommend the crew split this row into two district records."},{"nces_id":"2804230","name":"Tate County Schools","county":"Tate","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal Punishment Corporal punishment is a disciplinary option for use by the school administrator or the administrator’s designee. (TCSD Policy JDB)","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/5509/Tcs/c3bfb479-30dc-4ece-b6d4-2d82ec3fc830/26-27-TCSD-Student-Handbook.Approved-3.5.26.pdf?disposition=inline","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Tate County School District 2026-2027 Student/Parent Handbook (cover: 'TATE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT ... Student/Parent Handbook 2026-2027 School Year, www.tatecountyschools.org'), 'Corporal Punishment' entry on p.34 of the PDF, which names the district's own board policy JDB. The document's filename records board approval: '26-27-TCSD-Student-Handbook.Approved-3.5.26.pdf', i.e. approved 5 March 2026. Machine-fetchable: I fetched the cited URL at 3,553,109 bytes, content-type application/pdf, 73 pages, 177,732 characters of text, no OCR needed. Reached from the district's own '26-27 TCSD Handbook PDF' button on https://www.tatecountyschools.org/page/tcsd-handbook via the shortlink https://aptg.co/djPz5H, which 301-redirects to the cited files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com URL. The handbook states corporal punishment is 'a disciplinary option' without any parental-consent condition, so this is 'allows', not 'consent_required'. Input row's nces_id 2800420 / nces_name 'AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / website amite.k12.ms.us belong to a different district, so nces_id is left null; the real site (found by search, since the federal file's entry was wrong) is www.tatecountyschools.org. Board-policy cross-check NOT completed: the district's manual is on Simbli (https://tate.msbapolicy.org/ redirects to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031792), but every fetch_simbli_policy call on that site during this session was turned away by Simbli's Imperva bot challenge. The handbook cites 'TCSD Policy JDB' by name; a reviewer with Simbli access should confirm the policy text itself."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Tippah County Schools","county":"Tippah","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal Punishment - Student receives a paddling.","source":"https://southtippahschools.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/25-26-blue-mountain-handbook.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"North Tippah and South Tippah are separate districts; this record was read from South Tippah. The row should be split. QUOTE LOCATION: page 5 of the cited PDF, in the definitions list directly under the district-wide heading \"SOUTH TIPPAH SCHOOL DISTRICT CODE OF DISCIPLINE-GRADES K-12\"; the bullet glyph preceding it is a Wingdings character (U+F0A8) and is not reproduced. Page 6 lists it as a consequence, e.g. Level I \"Maximum: Teacher/student/parent conference, home suspension, corporal punishment\" and Level II \"First Violation Minimum: Corporal punishment, in School Suspension (ISS), detention, community service\". NAME PROBLEM - READ BEFORE MERGING. There is no \"Tippah County\" school district in Mississippi. Tippah County is served by TWO separate districts, North Tippah School District (Falkner/Walnut/Chalybeate) and South Tippah School District (Ripley/Blue Mountain/Dumas), each with its own board. BOTH permit corporal punishment, which is why this row is filed \"allows\"; a reviewer may prefer to split it into two records. (1) SOUTH TIPPAH - the cited source: 2025-26 Blue Mountain handbook on the district site southtippahschools.com; fetch_document: 2,252,177 bytes, application/pdf, 36 pages; quote on page 5 under the district-wide heading \"SOUTH TIPPAH SCHOOL DISTRICT CODE OF DISCIPLINE-GRADES K-12\"; corporal punishment appears as a listed consequence at Levels I-III on page 6. South Tippah's board policy JDB \"Corporal Punishment\" (southtippah.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031788; listing title \"Policy Listing | South Tippah School District\"), adopted 10/05/2010, revised 06/11/2019, opens \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure...\". (2) NORTH TIPPAH - district site northtippah.org; its Student Handbook at https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/32a6b22e54f340ea8b3b08cf91a09da3.pdf (1,597,791 bytes, application/pdf, 27 pages) says on page 18: \"Corporal punishment administered by a teacher or principal may be substituted for ISS at the discretion of Principal\", and on page 15 lists \"corporal punishment\" as the 1st-offense bus consequence. North Tippah's board policy manual is at ntippah.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031759 but was blocked by the Imperva challenge on every attempt. INPUT ROW WAS MIS-MATCHED: nces_id 2804290 / nces_name \"TUNICA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT\" / website tunicak12.org belong to Tunica County; nces_id left null."},{"nces_id":"2804260","name":"Tishomingo County Schools","county":"Tishomingo","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment may be used in cases where it is deemed as the most appropriate means of dealing with a particular student’s behavior.","source":"https://files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/6062/Tcsd/15b4e5a4-e404-46d8-8a31-5915c58a2ec7/TCSD-Student-Handbook-26-27.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Tishomingo County Special Municipal Separate School District; site used https://www.tcsk12.com (input's website field was correct for this row, and nces_id 2804260 matches TISHOMINGO CO SP MUN SCH DIST in the CCD 2022 directory). The handbook link on the site is an aptg.co short link; it 301s to the cited files-backend.assets.thrillshare.com PDF, which I resolved with curl -sIL. fetch_document on the final URL returned 2078718 bytes, application/pdf, 88 pages, 347510 characters, text layer present. The quoted sentence is on page 61, in the discipline section that lists corporal punishment among the consequences the principal may impose. The same page carries the full \"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT\" policy text beginning \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure...\" and stating \"Corporal punishment may be administered by the school principal, assistant principal, or a teacher.\" No parental consent or opt-out provision appears -> \"allows\". Corroborated against board policy: Simbli site 36031793 (tcsd.msbapolicy.org -> Index.aspx?S=36031793; the page header reads \"Tishomingo County School District\"), Policy JDB Corporal Punishment, status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 02/12/2007, no revision date shown. Read in a browser because fetch_simbli_policy was blocked by an Imperva challenge throughout this run. It matches the handbook language. The prior-year handbook (TCSDStudentHandbook24-25FinalJuly.pdf on resources.finalsite.net, 1577415 bytes, 95 pages) carries the same language on its page 60, so there has been no recent change."},{"nces_id":"2804290","name":"TUNICA COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Tunica","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031794&revid=HpIwM6K6ZBq7yRSXVcZvXA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2804320","name":"Tupelo Public School District","county":"Lee","status":"silent","quote":null,"source":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1753446160/tupeloschoolscom/ah05gbwxlbly3gl5u7am/2025-2026StudentHandbookDraft-Final.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-26","method":"searched_document","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1753446160/tupeloschoolscom/ah05gbwxlbly3gl5u7am/2025-2026StudentHandbookDraft-Final.pdf","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.tupeloschools.com/tupelo-high-school/parents/2023-23-student-handbook-clone-clone-clone-clone-clone/student-conduct-clone-clone-clone-clone","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.tupeloschools.com/milam/parents/2023-23-student-handbook-clone-clone-clone/student-conduct-clone-clone-clone","says":"silent"},{"kind":"handbook","url":"https://www.tupeloschools.com/uploaded/District/handbooks/Pierce_Street_2017-18.pdf","says":"silent"}],"notes":"4 documents found by searching for the district's handbook, code of conduct and board policy and read in full on 2026-09-26; none mentions corporal punishment. State law permits the practice where a district has not prohibited it, so with no written rule it runs on custom; the board policy manual was not located by search or vendor lookup. Identity is name and state matched against the federal LEA directory."},{"nces_id":"2804350","name":"Union County Schools","county":"Union","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment is permitted as a disciplinary measure in accordance with state law.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/cd718bf5944b44ef9741fc7deb6b4eb7.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Input row's nces_id 2803150 / nces_name 'NEWTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / website newton.k12.ms.us belong to a different district; nces_id left null. Real district: Union County School District, New Albany MS, site found by me at https://www.union.k12.ms.us. Source is the '26-27 Student Handbook' from https://www.union.k12.ms.us/formshandbooks; machine-fetchable (fetch_document: 1,718,416 bytes, application/pdf, 77 pages, 173,425 chars; quote on PDF page 20 under 'CODE OF DISCIPLINE-GRADES K-12', which names 'the citizens of Union County' on the same page). OPT-OUT, so 'allows': same passage reads verbatim 'At the beginning of each school year, parents have the responsibility to request in writing that corporal punishment may not be administered to their child or children.' and 'refusal of corporal punishment by the student will result in specific suspension which will constitute an unexcused absence', with '(not to exceed 3 licks per day)'. BOARD POLICY AGREES and is the authority: Simbli Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', Union County School District, Original Adopted Date 04/09/2012, Last Revised Date 06/24/2019, at https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031796&revid=cEfASXfVHrrJ3PMplusxrEE4Q==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false (read in Chrome; page title confirms 'Union County School District'). Finding the Simbli site needed care: union.msbapolicy.org is NOT this district and falls through to the generic MSBA NewGate page; the district's own site links unionco.msbapolicy.org, which redirects to S=36031796."},{"nces_id":"2804380","name":"UNION PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST","county":"Newton","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031797&revid=UslshJpd7NzKnROYUqVsZwTsg%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24 from the manual this district links from its own website, so its identity is the district's own link rather than a name match. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order."},{"nces_id":"2804470","name":"Vicksburg Warren School District","county":"Warren","status":"allows","quote":"Corporal punishment may be administered only in the presence of a witness. All corporal punishment measures are reported in writing on disciplinary referral forms. These reports are on file for future reference, and a copy of the report is sent home. If a parent prefers that his/her child not receive corporal punishment, the principal must have this request in writing at the beginning of the school year. If corporal punishment is not allowed, the child may be suspended for a number of days appropriate to the offense.","source":"https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/3604/bovina/2657987/Student_Handbook.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Recorded under its current name; the scan row said 'Warren County School District'. Opt-OUT, therefore 'allows'. NAME NOTE: there is no district called 'Warren County School District' in Mississippi; the county-wide district is the VICKSBURG WARREN SCHOOL DISTRICT (Vicksburg city and Warren County consolidated), and the cited document's own cover page reads 'STUDENT HANDBOOK Vicksburg Warren School District, 1500 Mission 66, Vicksburg, MS 39180'. Fetched via fetch_document: 2,272,988 bytes, application/pdf, 43 pages, good text layer; quote is on PDF page 18. CAVEAT: this handbook is the 2022-23 edition. VWSD's current site (vwsd.org) is a JavaScript-only Apptegy site whose document pages return an empty shell to curl, so the 2026-2027 handbook PDF could not be reached. The CURRENT board policy confirms the status is unchanged: policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', Status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 09/24/2015, Last Reviewed Date 03/26/2026 — 'Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure...' It is on Simbli S=36031798, found from the 'Board Policies' link on the district's OWN https://www.vwsd.org/page/school-board-meetings page (vwsd.msbapolicy.org), page title 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Vicksburg Warren School District': https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031798&revid=DkmPNICaIJ7f4podErnMDQ==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false (JavaScript-only, not machine-fetchable). VWSD's BoardDocs (go.boarddocs.com/ms/vwsd) is blocked to curl by CloudFront and its public Library contains no policies. INPUT ROW WAS MISMATCHED: nces_name 'GREENE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT', website greene.k12.ms.us, so nces_id 2801590 was dropped. Site actually used: https://www.vwsd.org."},{"nces_id":"2804440","name":"Walthall County Schools","county":"Walthall","status":"allows","quote":"As a matter of Board policy, reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the Board.","source":"https://www.wcsd.k12.ms.us/_files/ugd/5f27d8_86116ad1e2b745a78f240e266def0486.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"searched_document","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. NO WEBSITE IN THE FEDERAL FILE. Found by searching the name: Walthall County School District, Tylertown, MS, site www.wcsd.k12.ms.us (handbook located via resolve_handbook against that site). SOURCE: The Walthall County School District Student/Parent Handbook 2026-2027, 'Corporal Punishment' section (Policy JDB), handbook page 23 = PDF page 25 of 44. FETCH CAVEAT — THIS IS WHY source_text IS ATTACHED: the URL returns 21,776,100 bytes, application/pdf, 44 pages, but the file is a SCANNED/IMAGE PDF (Title '26-27 Handbook Combined.pdf', Producer 'Microsoft: Print To PDF', CreationDate 2026-07-24) with ZERO extractable text. The project's fetch_document reports needs_ocr:true, text_chars:0 and no hits; a machine cannot read the quote from this URL without OCR. I OCR'd it locally with ocrmypdf/tesseract, then verified the quoted sentence and the full source_text character-by-character against a 200-dpi PNG render of PDF page 25. The district also posts a second copy at https://www.wcsd.k12.ms.us/_files/ugd/5f27d8_0780a8c57e9345e18cd4d66a7d468505.pdf (502,969 bytes, also needs_ocr). CLASSIFICATION: 'allows' — requirement 5 reads 'Regardless of parent choice, students with a disability ... shall not be paddled', which presupposes that parents have a choice for non-disabled students (opt-out), and no clause requires affirmative parental permission in advance."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Warren County School District","county":"Warren","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":null,"method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Status carried over from the pre-2026 map with no source and not verified. The first districts re-checked in 2026 were wrong in this data more often than not, so it is recorded as unknown until someone opens the policy. The previous unsourced value is kept in legacy_status."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Washington County Schools","county":"Washington","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO SUCH DISTRICT EXISTS. Mississippi has no 'Washington County School District'. Washington County is served by four independent districts with separate boards: Greenville Public School District, Western Line School District, Hollandale School District and Leland School District. Verified three ways: (1) MDE official District Directory https://mdek12.org/dd/ (fetched server-side, text/html, 103,864 bytes, updated 09/14/2026) - 'Washington County' appears only as the parenthetical county annotation on those four districts, and there is no district whose own name contains it; (2) Wikipedia List of school districts in Mississippi lists only those four for Washington County; (3) the MSBA policy service has greenville.msbapolicy.org (Simbli S=36031711), westernline.msbapolicy.org (S=36031807), hollandale.msbapolicy.org (S=36031719) and leland.msbapolicy.org (S=36031738), while washington.msbapolicy.org and washingtoncounty.msbapolicy.org fall through to the generic MSBA gate. INPUT ROW IS MISMATCHED: nces_name 'COVINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT', nces_id 2801290 and website covingtoncountyschools.org all belong to Covington County, a different district; nces_id left null. No record filed for a district that does not exist; the four real Washington County districts should be scanned under their own names."},{"nces_id":"2804500","name":"WATER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Yalobusha","status":"bans","quote":"The Water Valley School District does NOT permit the use of corporal punishment as a disciplinary measure.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031800&revid=vYCTjK19nli626plus3c1wROA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"JDB header on the policy: Original Adopted Date 09/09/2013, Last Revised Date 07/24/2024. Quote verified against the cached source; status bans."},{"nces_id":"2804530","name":"Wayne County Schools","county":"Wayne","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031801&revid=aY5Js3fslsh7pdS6nZ87slshZnCg==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Real site: https://www.wcsdms.com/ (Wayne County School District, Waynesboro); handbook index at https://www.wcsdms.com/235661_2. Per the coordinator's Mississippi tip and the brief, nces_id is filed as null: the federal row paired this district with nces_name 'AMITE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' (website amite.k12.ms.us), a different district, so the id and website in the input cannot be trusted. Board policy via wayne.msbapolicy.org, which redirects to Simbli S=36031801; Chrome confirms the manual header reads 'Wayne County School District'. Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 03/07/2011, Last Revised Date 06/27/2019, Last Reviewed Date 05/26/2026. Read in Chrome because fetch_simbli_policy was bot-challenged; verbatim policy attached as source_text. MACHINE-FETCHABLE CORROBORATION: the 2026-2027 K-8 Student Handbook, https://files.smartsites.parentsquare.com/9515/2026-2027_wcsd_k-8_handbook_v2_1.pdf (2,091,202 bytes, application/pdf, 107 pages, marked 'School Board approved 7/27/26'), states on PDF page 47 under 'CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (JDB) MS Code 37-11-57': 'As a matter of board policy, reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure...'. OPT-OUT, therefore 'allows'. Board policy JDB itself contains no opt-out clause, but the handbook supplies the mechanism on PDF page 39: 'Parents who do not want their child to be paddled should obtain and sign a Corporal Punishment Disallowance Form from the office of the school where the child is enrolled. This form must be signed by the parent/guardian and will be kept on file in the school office.' Corporal punishment is also the first-listed consequence for Level 2 violations (PDF page 41: '1st Office Visit: Contact Parent and corporal punishment.'). A separate WCHS 9-12 handbook exists on the same index and was not opened."},{"nces_id":"2804560","name":"Webster County Schools","county":"Webster","status":"allows","quote":"Parents who wish their child to NOT receive corporal punishment (paddling) must come to the school to fill out the appropriate paperwork each school year. Students should inform school personnel that they are on the non-corporal punishment list before receiving punishment.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/abdd10d2482844a1ba378a1ef6db1bd5.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Webster County School District (Eupora, MS), Eupora High School Student Handbook 2026-2027, quoted passage on p.25 of the PDF. Classified 'allows', not 'consent_required': corporal punishment is the default and a parent must opt the child OUT in person each year. The same handbook lists the district-level policy code on p.24: 'Corporal Punishment - Only administered in the presence of a witness in accordance with the district's corporal punishment policy (Policy JDB).' It is also named as a first-offense consequence in the discipline matrix on p.26 (e.g. 'Out of Place/Skipping Class 1st Offense - Corporal Punishment or 2 days ISS'). Machine-fetchable: I fetched the cited URL at 780,779 bytes, content-type application/pdf, 52 pages, 161,410 characters of text, no OCR needed. The handbook's certification form (p.2) states it sets out 'the rules, regulations, and policies as set forth by the Webster County School Board in the 2026-27 student hand book', confirming the district. Caveat for the reviewer: this is a school-level handbook, not a district-wide one - the district publishes five school handbooks (Alt School, EES, EHS, EWES, EWHS) at https://www.webstercountyschools.org/handbook and no single district handbook; the quoted rule is stated as district policy JDB. Input row's nces_id 2802550 / nces_name 'LEE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT' / website leecountyschools.us belong to a different district, so nces_id is left null; the real site (found by search) is www.webstercountyschools.org - note that webstercsd.org redirects to websterschools.org, which is Webster Central School District in New York and is NOT this district. Board-policy cross-check NOT completed: the district's manual is on Simbli (https://webster.msbapolicy.org/ redirects to simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031802), but every fetch_simbli_policy call on that site during this session was turned away by Simbli's Imperva bot challenge. The handbook cites district 'Policy JDB' by name; a reviewer with Simbli access should confirm the policy text itself."},{"nces_id":"2804590","name":"West Jasper School District","county":"Jasper","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board. Parents or guardians are not allowed to administer corporal punishment on West Jasper School District grounds. Students who cannot be given corporal punishment may be suspended out of school for offenses which would merit corporal punishment.","source":"https://www.westjasper.org/files/documents/Handbooks/2026-2027%20WJSD%20Student%20Handbook.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-09","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"No parental consent or opt-out provision; 'Students who cannot be given corporal punishment may be suspended out of school for offenses which would merit corporal punishment.' Administered by the teacher, principal or assistant principal (lead teachers may be authorized), 'not to exceed three licks per day', 'in the presence of a certified employee'; 'HB1182, corporal punishment is prohibited for students with a disability who has an IEP or Section 504 Plan. West Jasper School District will suspend any student with a disability who has an IEP or Section 504 Plan, rather than administer corporal punishment.' Handbook is 'West Jasper School District School Year 2026-27' (62 pages), linked from westjasper.org. The K-6 and 7-12 discipline step plans list 'One day ISD or Corporal Punishment' (steps 1-3), the tardy policy lists 'Corporal punishment or 1 day of ISD' at the 4th unexcused tardy, and bus offenses list corporal punishment as an option for the first three minor/intermediate offenses. The district's board policy manual link (https://wjasper.msbapolicy.org/) redirects to Simbli (https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031853), whose policy listing requires JavaScript and returned no policy text to curl or WebFetch; no Wayback capture found. The MSBA policy code (likely JDA) could not be confirmed. CRDC name 'WEST JASPER CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS'; NCES and district style it 'West Jasper School District'."},{"nces_id":"2800191","name":"WEST POINT CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DIST","county":"Clay","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031805&revid=8hTbQ2SKRauM68UdFSc7vA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24 from the manual this district links from its own website, so its identity is the district's own link rather than a name match. `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in document order."},{"nces_id":"2804650","name":"WEST TALLAHATCHIE SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Tallahatchie","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031806&revid=4FFN26eRRE9XqFQPztaGxA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2804680","name":"WESTERN LINE SCHOOL DISTRICT","county":"Washington","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031807&revid=ysB6ovXaoSslshvPbcjK58WZA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":"2804710","name":"Wilkinson County Schools","county":"Wilkinson","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/852bc7da29f14ba0a3ac1d01ce8612da.pdf","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Source is the Wilkinson County School District \"Student and Parent Handbook 2026-2027\" (cover page 1 names Superintendent Walter L. Atkins, Jr., Wilkinson County High School and Wilkinson County Elementary School), linked from the Students page of the district site wilkinson.k12.ms.us; fetch_document: 1,237,645 bytes, application/pdf, 97 pages; quote on page 52 under the heading \"Corporal Punishment\". BOARD POLICY AGREES: policy JDB \"Corporal Punishment\" in the Wilkinson County School District Board Policy Manual on Simbli (wilkinson.msbapolicy.org, linked from the district site -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031808; listing title \"Policy Listing | Wilkinson County School District\"), adopted and revised 06/20/2018. NOTE a real difference between the two: the board policy reads \"Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted...\" and omits the disability exclusion that the handbook carries, while policy JD \"Student Discipline\" (same date) also references corporal punishment. INPUT ROW WAS MIS-MATCHED: nces_id 2802640 / nces_name \"LINCOLN COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT\" / website lcsd.k12.ms.us belong to Lincoln County; nces_id left null. Sites checked and rejected: wcsd.k12.ms.us is Walthall County School District; wilkinsonk12.org is an unrelated \"Launching Soon\" placeholder. Real site used: wilkinson.k12.ms.us."},{"nces_id":"2800196","name":"Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District","county":"Montgomery","status":"allows","quote":"CORPORAL PUNISHMENT Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031809&revid=MhxEIzoCYRXRmNOfJfARiA%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-09-24","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Board policy read 2026-09-24. The quote is the sentence that grants or forbids the practice; `quotes` carries every rule-bearing sentence in the policy, in document order, because a policy usually has more than one: the permission, any exemption, and what say a parent has."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Winston County Schools","county":"Winston","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":null,"method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"Status carried over from the pre-2026 map with no source and not verified. The first districts re-checked in 2026 were wrong in this data more often than not, so it is recorded as unknown until someone opens the policy. The previous unsourced value is kept in legacy_status."},{"nces_id":null,"name":"Yalobusha County Schools","county":"Yalobusha","status":"unknown","quote":null,"source":null,"last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":null,"parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"NO SUCH DISTRICT. There is no 'Yalobusha County School District' in Mississippi. Yalobusha County is split between TWO independent districts with separate boards and separate policies: the COFFEEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT (Coffeeville, Oakland, Tillatoba and most of rural southern Yalobusha) and the WATER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT (northern Yalobusha). Because the row's name cannot be resolved to one district, and the two districts' policies are NOT the same, I am filing 'unknown' rather than guessing. What I verified, for whoever splits this row: (1) COFFEEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT = consent_required. Its Employee Handbook 2024-2025 (https://content.myconnectsuite.com/api/documents/001cf320f7154338a85e5a07e2b90dd2, linked from https://mscoffeevillesd.schoolinsites.com; fetch_document: 1241008 bytes, application/pdf, 65 pages; passage on PDF page 15) states verbatim: 'Reasonable corporal punishment of a student is permitted only with parent/guardian consent.' followed by paddle-size and witness rules. Its board policy manual is at coffeeville.msbapolicy.org -> Simbli S=36031813 (not retrievable - Imperva). (2) WATER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT = not determined. Its 2024-2025 district Parent/Student Handbook (https://core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/2769/WVSD/4620788/2024-_2025_WVSD_Handbook.pdf; fetch_document: 2788134 bytes, application/pdf, 112 pages) contains NO occurrence of 'corporal', 'paddl' or 'spank' anywhere. Its board manual at watervalley.msbapolicy.org -> Simbli S=36031800 does list a Policy JDB 'Corporal Punishment', ADOPTED, last revised 07/24/2024 (search-result row read in a browser), but the policy body would not open in the browser and Simbli is unfetchable by curl, so its text is unverified. Places searched: federal file (row had no nces_id/nces_name/website), web search for the district name, yalobushaonline.org, mscoffeevillesd.schoolinsites.com, mscoffeevillees.schoolinsites.com, wvsdonline.com (Cloudflare challenge), core-docs tenant 2769 (WVSD), and both districts' msbapolicy.org/Simbli manuals."},{"nces_id":"2804770","name":"Yazoo City Municipal School District","county":"Yazoo","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031810&revid=f9lGV8EO9WwmZwyoVGYuuw%3D%3D","last_verified":"2026-10-04","method":"agent_via_crew","parent_control":"unknown","documents":[{"kind":"board_policy","url":"https://www.yazoocity.k12.ms.us/o/ycmsd/page/policies","says":"silent"}],"notes":"Blocked policies page was a JavaScript challenge. Board policy JDB was read from yazoo.msbapolicy.org, Simbli S=36031810, page title Yazoo City Municipal School District. Homepage confirms Yazoo City, MS. This is not Yazoo County (S=36031811). JDB has no sentence requiring parental permission. Submitted through the crew server; quote verified against the source by the server and approved by a maintainer on 2026-10-04."},{"nces_id":"2804800","name":"Yazoo County Schools","county":"Yazoo","status":"allows","quote":"Reasonable corporal punishment of a non-disabled student is permitted as a disciplinary measure in order to preserve an effective educational environment which is free from disruption and is conducive to furthering the educational mission of the board.","source":"https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Policy/ViewPolicy.aspx?S=36031811&revid=UJpZ3Yx9i1WPgc1WiAwihw==&ptid=9slshUHzTHxaaYMVf6zKpJz3Q==&secid=hSGrPqF4gplus5plusbZ62PcQufA==&PG=6&IRP=0&isPndg=false","last_verified":"2026-09-19","method":"vendor_manual","parent_control":null,"documents":[],"notes":"AGENT-ATTESTED, NEEDS HUMAN CONFIRMATION: the source is JavaScript-only and refused every automated read, so the policy was transcribed from a browser. Input row had no nces_id or website. District site found by me: https://www.yazook12.org (Yazoo County School District, 94 Panther Drive, Yazoo City MS). COUNTY vs CITY TRAP - CHECKED: yazoo.msbapolicy.org resolves to Simbli S=36031810, whose page title is 'Yazoo City Municipal School District', a DIFFERENT district; the county district is yazooco.msbapolicy.org -> simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Index.aspx?S=36031811, page title 'View Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment | Yazoo County School District'. That is the site cited here. Board Policy Manual, Policy JDB: Corporal Punishment, Status ADOPTED, Original Adopted Date 08/05/2014, Last Revised Date 06/04/2019. NOT MACHINE-FETCHABLE: Simbli is JS-only and was serving Imperva challenges to fetch_simbli_policy and to curl; read in Chrome, full verbatim text attached as source_text. HANDBOOK/POLICY DIVERGENCE worth a reviewer's eye: the district's own 'YCSD Student Parent Handbook 2026-2027' (https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1784664822/yazook12org/k6aylknlzeigaupydzvw/YCSDStudentParentHandbook2026-2027.pdf; fetch_document: 3,258,745 bytes, application/pdf, 107 pages, 242,109 chars) contains ZERO occurrences of 'corporal', 'paddle' or 'physical punishment' and its discipline section runs Level A-D conduct with no corporal option, while board policy JDB still permits it. Per the project's rule that board policy beats the handbook, this is filed as 'allows'."}]