Bill would end school spanking in North Carolina

March 15, 2007
About three-fifths of the state's school districts allow corporal punishment of students.

Some state legislators and education leaders in North Carolina say spanking students has no place in the schools and are asking lawmakers to ban corporal punishment in schools. A bill has been filed in the state legislature, and State school superintendent June Atkinson and Eddie Davis, president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, also support a ban. According to a survey taken this year by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Social Work, 68 school districts in the state allow corporal punishment, and 47 prohibit it.

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