According to federal data from the 2017-18 school year — the most recent year for which data is available — 8,758 Texas schools used corporal punishment on 13,892 Texas students.

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/an-east-texas-principal-was-arrested-after-paddling-a-student-renewing-debate-over-corporal-punishment/

New York is one of the states that have banned corporal punishment in schools, with teachers and administrators banned from physically disciplining kids.

Source: https://nj1015.com/ixp/1149/p/spanking-new-york-schools/

The fear that corporal punishment introduces fear in students, lowers their self-esteem and sense of confidence and security, is worse with social media where other students talk, share and make fun of a student who got punished in the class.

Source: https://kuenselonline.com/to-beat-or-not-is-not-the-debate/

Those rules, however, have not prevented hundreds of substantiated cases of corporal punishment being reported every year.

Source: https://nj1015.com/ixp/1149/p/spanking-new-york-schools/

Today, anyone and everyone who desires to know and possibly do better can, and should do so, instead of falling back on the ossified position that corporal punishment worked in their time and thus would work now.

Source: https://guyanatimesgy.com/corporal-punishment/

“We must build on the momentum to protect children from child marriage, corporal punishment, hazardous child labor, and extreme prison sentences.”

Source: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/09/07/no-us-state-meets-child-rights-standards