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corporal punishment

NOUN
physical punishment
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But, he adds, there is a "spectrum" of schools, with some incorporating psychotherapy for students and training for parents, or disciplining staff who carry out corporal punishment.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025

Banning corporal punishment also had been a primary demand of student and teacher activists who took part in widespread Latino student walkouts from L.A. schools in 1968.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

As Human Rights Watch explained in a recent report, "US states overwhelmingly fail to live up to key standards" on "the issues of child marriage, corporal punishment, child labor, and juvenile justice."

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2023

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and the African American community has a complicated relationship with corporal punishment of kids.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2023

From En-gland and Europe, the United States had inherited a system of mainly corporal punishment for crimes.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover



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