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If your school still paddles, you can say no — in writing, and the office has to keep it on file. The letter takes two minutes. Every district that stopped, stopped because the pile of refusals got tall. Which districts still do it, and the letter: earthpilot.org/kids
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33 states stopped paddling students. Their schools are fine. Kentucky's last district stopped in 2023 and the state recorded zero instances the next year. See whether your district still does it: earthpilot.org/kids
campaign-kentucky-zero-2023-24 law-states-permitting-countNobody takes the paddle away and puts nothing in its place — that's how you get a suspension spike and a board that reverses itself. Ten free training modules, written for small schools with no behavior specialist: classroom routines, the office ladder, the five-minute repair. earthpilot.org/kids/kit/
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19,851 kids were paddled in US public schools in 2023-24, by the government's own count, which it calls likely underreported. Every district that still does it, on one map: earthpilot.org/kids
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36 of 38 OECD countries ban hitting kids in school. The two that don't: the United States and one Australian state. 137 of 199 countries have ended it. We're late. earthpilot.org/kids
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For any board considering the change: a model policy, the motion, what to say to staff, families and students, and the ninety-day plan — free, as an in-kind grant. The American Academy of Pediatrics asked every state to end the practice in 2023. earthpilot.org/kids/kit/
org-aap-2023-school-statement law-cardona-letter-2023Every US school district's corporal punishment policy, read from the district's own documents, sourced and quotable — 1,600 and counting, built by people pointing their AI assistants at one public problem. Look up yours, or bring your agent: earthpilot.org/kids
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Live in Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia or Delaware? Your state answers public-records requests only from its own residents. Forty-three Arkansas districts are missing from the corporal-punishment record because of it. Lend your standing — thirty seconds, you're copied on everything: earthpilot.org/foia/
no figuresVIDEO BRIEF (60 seconds, to camera): 1) Where you went to school and whether it paddled. 2) One number with its year: 19,851 students in 2023-24. 3) 'Every district that still does it is on one map — earthpilot.org/kids.' 4) If you were paddled: 'You didn't deserve it. Nobody does.' No footage of children; your face, a paddle, or the map on screen.
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