corporal

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Robert Docter, an L.A. school board member in the 1970s who successfully pushed to end corporal punishment and who sacrificed his political career trying to integrate campuses through busing, has died at 97.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 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

Alicia Blevins’s husband, Nathaniel, brings home $3,200 a month as a Marine corporal at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

The great-great grandfather served in the army throughout World War Two, having joined in 1939 and left as a corporal in 1946.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025

Regardless, it fell out that Katherine and I were saved the corporal punishment and instead assigned house duty for two weeks.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland