US government corporal punishment survey
Posted by Ashbee | Date: 14 May | Topic: Old news
Every two years, the US Department of Education requires schools to submit details of the number of students receiving corporal punishment. The 2006 survey is the latest available online.
Corporal punishment is defined as “paddling, spanking, or other forms of physical punishment imposed on a student” and schools are instructed to “Count each student only once regardless of the number of times punished.”
The download page gives you access to Excel spreadsheets by State. One could play with them for hours, but a few interesting stats:
- 48,519 female pupils received corporal punishment nationwide in the 2005-6 school year
- assuming 175 days schooling a year and an even spread of punishments across the calendar, that’s at least 277 girls being punished per day (in reality probably more, as some will be punished several times per year but will only be reported once in the data)
- in Texas, one female student out of every 212 was paddled in the year – that’s 52 a day
If you download data for your State and have anything interesting to report, please email it to me via the Contact tab and I’ll add it to this post.
