The Campaign Against Corporal Punishment

06/04/2004

The Campaign Against Corporal Punishment

"Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky." - Anaïs Nin

The Campaign Against Corporal Punishment

The Spring 2004 issue of CEASE News (the newsletter of the Concerned Educators Allied for a Safe Environment), points out that despite some success in banning corporal punishment in schools, 13 states still allow, or worse yet, mandate, corporal punishment. The newsletter observes:

"To protect children and make good our societal commitment against violence we need to have a national ban on corporal punishment. The US should join Canada and the rest of the industrialized world. Twenty-five million children in Europe are legally protected from all physical punishment, even at home. They cannot be spanked, whipped, belted, or paddled in any setting. They have the same right to be free from assault that is enjoyed by adults...."

CEASE recommends that concerned educators join in the campaign to end corporal punishment of children by all persons and to advocate child-rearing practices that develop caring, responsible, and self-disciplined adults. To join learn more about this campaign, go to www.stophittingnow.org.

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