All Kentucky school districts now have policies against corporal punishment

[Emile]

Advocates for children praise formal rejection of ‘school-sanctioned violence’

When Alex Young was in the seventh grade, he read an article about how Kentucky schools still had cases of corporal punishment.

Young, now a junior studying political science and government at Notre Dame, was researching policy proposals for his Kentucky Youth Assembly’s mock government conference at the time.

“Kids were still being paddled in schools,” he recalled learning. “That just blew my mind.”

The Louisvillian immediately started advocating outside KYA for a change in state law to prevent corporal punishment in schools.

This school year, all Kentucky school districts have policies against corporal punishment in place, according to Jill Seyfred, the executive director of the nonprofit Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky. This is the first full year for such uniform policies, she said.

During the 2017-2018 school year, there were 452 incidents of corporal punishment in Kentucky schools, according to Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky data. Snip

Read more at: https://kentuckylantern.com/2025/01/13/all-kentucky-school-districts-now-have-policies-against-corporal-punishment/

[Walleye]

1. Paddled is the word they use for beaten

[sinkingfeeling]

2. 50 years after most states.

[Emile]

3. No kidding!

[Simeon Salus]

4. Apparently, no.

The Wikipedia article has a good map (as of 2023). But it's not surprising. Some form of corporal punishment is still legal in seventeen states.

[Simeon Salus]

5. Sixteen now

[get the red out]

6. Most of the paddles in my Kentucky school

WAAAY back in the 70s, were at least an inch thick with holes so there wouldn't be as much air resitance to slow down its force. Some teachers must have had serious muscles on their dominent arm, as much exercise as it got. I was terrified to be paddled because My Mom said that she didn't believe in someone touching someone else's child, and she would go in and whoop the teacher that hit one of us. The thoughts of that were beyond embarrassing, so I behaved.