Districts that stopped

Every board that still permits it has already heard the argument that it is wrong. What it has not been shown is a district of its own size, in its own state, under its own law, that stopped and is still running. These are those districts, in their own words.

The Pike County Board of Education prohibits the use of corporal punishment. No person employed by or engaged in the Pike County Schools shall administer corporal punishment upon a pupil.

The Lafayette County School Board prohibits the use of corporal punishment by any employee of the District against any student.

What a row here means, and what it does not

A district appears here because its own current policy prohibits corporal punishment and its own federal filing for 2023-24 reported students struck. Those two facts can both be true for two different reasons, and the record for each district says which:

• The district changed its policy after the filing. Pike County, Alabama revised policy 5.30.1 on 17 June 2024, after the school year in which it reported 252 students struck. That is a district that stopped.
• The filing does not match a policy that was already in place. Lubbock ISD removed corporal punishment in 2020 and its 2023-24 filing still shows two students. That is a reporting question, not a change of heart, and it is on this page because hiding it would make the other rows less believable.

Every district in this record that prohibits it

1,176 districts, 350 of them with a date the board acted. Each has a certificate it can print, download or be sent. They are granted on the district's own published policy and they link to it, so anyone can check the claim in one click.

Counts are from the US Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection for 2023-24; see the data page. Policy text is quoted from each district's own current policy, with the link beside it. If a district on this page has been read wrong, the record is public and correctable.

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