NY Times -Corporal punishment is banned in the United States’ military training centers and can no longer be carried out as a sentence for a crime. It is prohibited at Head Start programs and in most juvenile detention facilities, too.
But in many states, there is one place where it is permissible to hit, spank or slap: school.
More than 106,000 children were physically punished at public schools during the 2013-14 school year, the most recent year for which national data estimates are available, according to the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.
Although that number has declined over the years, researchers have found that black students, boys and disabled students continue to be physically punished at a greater rate than their classmates.
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