corporal punishment
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With his older brother John, he ran a school, having left a previous teaching post from a disinclination to administer corporal punishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
As well as educating children about their rights, he also holds workshops to train teachers how to deliver discipline without using corporal punishment.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
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
