According to a report by Emilie Munson, Joshua Solomon and Matt Rocheleau of The Times-Union, the New York State Department of Education has found an alarming number of corporal punishment instances in New York schools.
According to the report, the Education Department received nearly 18,000 complaints of corporal punishments in public and private schools across the state, and substantiated more that 1,600 of those complaints from 2016 to 2021. The report also stated that the Times Union found that corporal punishment incidents were underreported by school officials.
The substantiated claims include any situation in which a faculty member physically contacted a student, such as slapping, spanking or grabbing. The vast majority of the complaints originated from New York City schools, comprising of 1,271 substantiated complaints of the over 1,600 total substantiated complaints.
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