Assertion: corporal punishment | /r/HasProperty | legal
Facets:
value: in 20 states
type: LOCATION
value: in any european country
type: LOCATION
value: in public schools
type: LOCATION
value: currently
type: TEMPORAL
value: in punishing disabled students
type: TEMPORAL
value: under domestic law
type: OTHER
value: at home
type: LOCATION
value: technically
type: MANNER
value: as of 2018
type: TEMPORAL
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
value: on its widespread use in classrooms
type: OTHER
value: in some other regions
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In the United States, corporal punishment is mostly eradicated from private schools but is legal in public schools.
text: Corporal punishment in schools is illegal under the Ministry of Education Regulation on Student Punishment (2005) and the National Committee on Child Protection Regulation on Working Procedures of Child Protection Officers Involved in Promoting Behaviour of Students (2005), pursuant to article 65 of the Child Protection Act.
text: In Serbia, corporal punishment in schools is now unlawful under the Law on Secondary Schools 1992, the Law on Elementary Schools 1992 and the Law on the Foundations of Education and Upbringing 2003/2009.
text: Judicial corporal punishment is now outlawed in most countries in the Western Hemisphere but is legal in some other regions, and the most common punishment is whipping or caning.
text: School corporal punishment is no longer legal in any European country.
text: Corporal punishment is legal in Singapore schools (for male students only, it is illegal to inflict it on female students) and fully encouraged by the government in order to maintain strict discipline.
text: In some other countries, corporal punishment is legal, but restricted (e.g. blows to the head are outlawed, implements may not be used, only children within a certain age range may be spanked).
text: In all states of the United States and most African and Asian nations, corporal punishment by parents is currently legal.
text: According to a 2014 estimate by Human Rights Watch, "Ninety percent of the world’s children live in countries where corporal punishment and other physical violence against children is still legal".
text: As of 2018, corporal punishment is still legal in private schools in every U.S. state except New Jersey and Iowa, legal in public schools in nineteen states, permitted in eighteen, and practiced in fifteen.
text: If, on the other hand, the federal government were to withhold funding from states where corporal punishment is legal, the local authorities might be more inclined to pass the appropriate laws.
text: AT HOME: Corporal punishment is technically legal in all 50 states.
text: School corporal punishment, which typically involves striking a child with a wooden board or paddle, is currently legal in public schools in 19 U.S. states.
text: It analyzes data gathered by the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education from 36,942 public schools in all 4,460 districts in the 19 states where school corporal punishment is legal.
text: In states where corporal punishment is legal, it can be used on children of all ages.
text: The author's note that while hitting an animal to the point of injury is a felony in most U.S. states, hitting a child to the point of injury as punishment in a public school is exempt from child maltreatment laws in most states where corporal punishment in schools is legal.
text: On its widespread use in classrooms, especially in punishing disabled students: "Corporal punishment is legal under domestic law in 20 states ...