Twenty-Two States in the U.S. allow Corporal Punishment in school. Every industrialized country in the world now prohibits school corporal punishment, except the U.S. and Australia (Outback regions only).

Plano TX School Board set to ban corporal punishment January 16 2006. One of the nation's largest school districts is voting to ban corporal punishment. The district schools had not used corporal punishment in some time. "It's important to get it off the books," said Nadine Block, Director of the Center for Effective Discipline, a non-profit organization which provides information about effects of corporal punishment and alternatives. "Even if corporal punishment is not used in practice, it is important to reflect that in policy, she said, Otherwise, practice could easily change with new administrators." (Dallas Morning News, January 16). For further information, contact info@stophitting.org

The fact remains, corporal punishment causes emotional as well as physical damage, which if not resolved through a healing process specifically focused on the aftereffects of physical violence, the damage continues to plague the person for a lifetime. Hitting, paddling, smacking, whacking, bopping, or any form of physical assault against a child is violence, because the act violates the child