To avoid the risk of corporal punishment getting out of hand, parents need to do the disciplining. Teachers and administrators should not have to play the role of parent to a child who has been neglected by their own parents. Administrators and teachers should not have to be put in the position where corporal punishment would be necessary. 27 states in the U.S. have banned corporal punishment in their schools. Every industrialized country in the world now prohibits school corporal punishment except the U.S., Canada and one state in Australia.
Schools are the only institutions in America in which striking another person is legally sanctioned.
It is not allowed in prisions, the military or in mental hospitals. China Spring, La Vega, Lorena, Midway, Robinson and West independent school districts also allow corporal punishment, according to an article in the Waco Tribune-Herald. Information taken from The Center For Effective Discipline Homepage. The arrest warrant was obtained by the legal guardian of the student. His grandmother examined him, and they could not believe it.