FILE:  JDA

Cf:  GAMC

 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT PROHIBITED

 

 

Every teacher is authorized to hold every student to a strict accountability for any disorderly conduct in school or on the playground of the school, or on any school bus going to or returning from school, or during intermission or recess.

 

Corporal punishment in any form is prohibited in the Caddo Parish School System.  The School Board does not authorize or condone the use of corporal punishment by any administrator, teacher or other employee as a means of maintaining order, discipline, or for any reason on the students in the school.  Corporal punishment refers to the intentional application of physical pain as a method of changing behavior.  It includes a wide variety of methods such as hitting, slapping, punching, kicking, pinching, shaking, choking, use of various objects (wooden paddles, belts, sticks, pins, or others), painful body postures, use of electric shock, use of excessive exercise drills, withholding meals, or preventing restroom use.

 

Corporal punishment does not include:

 

  1. The use of reasonable and necessary physical restraint of a student to protect the student, or others, from bodily harm or to obtain possession of a weapon or other dangerous object from a student.

  2. The use of seclusion and restraint as provided in La. Rev. Stat. Ann.  §17:416.21.

 

IMPERMISSIBLE CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

 

Corporal punishment as outlined hereinabove shall be deemed and defined to be impermissible corporal punishment.  Any accusations involving employees using impermissible corporal punishment shall be promptly investigated, in accordance with provisions of policy GAMC, Investigations, as applicable.  Additional steps besides those outlined in policy GAMC may be undertaken on a case-by-case basis in order to complete a thorough and timely examination of the incident in question.

 

Revised:  October 24, 2017

Revised:  February 23, 2021

 

 

Ref:    U.S. Constitution, Amend. XIII

U.S. Constitution, Amend. XIV, Sec. 1

La. Rev. Stat. Ann. §§17:81.6, 17:223, 17:416, 17:416.1

Baker v. Owen, 96 S. Ct. 210 affirming 395 F. Supp. 294 (M.D.N.C., 1975)

Ingraham v. Wright, 97 S. Ct. 1401, (1977)

Board minutes, 4-15-03, 10-24-17, 2-23-21

 

Caddo Parish School Board