Can teachers hit their students?

These Are The 19 States That Still Let Public Schools Hit Kids. In 19 states, it's legal for teachers or principals to punish public school students by hitting them repeatedly instead of just giving them detention. ... (One Texas school district administered corporal punishment to more than 120 kids that year alone.)Mar 28, 2014 read more

Teachers should not be able to hit their students for any reason at all. They should just suspend them or give them iss or a detention but a paddling will not always work because if you hit the student and they hit you back you can’t do anything about it because they had a right to. read more

Teachers must be able to discipline students, but they should never hit a student. If they do, that means they are taking out their anger and they have failed in the role, unable to find another way to communicate. read more

In fact, nineteen states allow teachers and caregivers to spank children (and administer other forms of corporal punishment). Iowa, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Montana, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina all allow corporal punishment. read more