Floyd County Schools
Georgia
On December 16, 2024 this district's board adopted the policy below, ending the use of corporal punishment in its schools.
In recognition of research findings that corporal punishment seldom, if ever, results in positive, long-term changes in behavior, but more likely leads to increased incidents of aggressive, negative behavior, the Floyd County School System prohibits the use of such punishment as a method of administering a disciplinary consequence. Read from the district's own published policy on 2026-10-04