On International Day to End Corporal Punishment, Dr. Ross Greene reflects on what caregivers should be doing instead.
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Today is the International Day to #EndCorporalPunishment !

Violent punishment still affects well over a billion children each year😢

But we know it is possible to build non-violent childhoods!❤️

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The time to #endcorporalpunishment is now!

On International Day to #EndCorporalPunishment Lao PDR has become the 66th state & the first in the ASEAN region to prohibit all corporal punishment of children!

Congratulations Laos on enacting this fundamental protection for children!❤️🎉

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As the Edmonton Public School prepares to vote on if police will return to public schools, many are asking: Have we exhausted the diverse, evidence-based options available to us?
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A bill that would have required regular inspections of privately-owned juvenile detention centers in TN has been deferred to a summer study effectively killing the bill until at least next session.
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WI schools had more than 5,000 seclusion and 6,000 restraint incidents in the 2022-23 school year.
About 80% of seclusions and 78% of restraints involved students with disabilities.
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Dr. Jill Underly, WI State Superintendent
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In a powerful judgement delivered earlier this month the South African Court of Appeal confirmed that corporal punishment is prohibited in South African schools

'no child should be subjected to any form of physical violence in the school environment”

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💬𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯; 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘨𝘦. - 𝗗𝗿. 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗲

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Great news from Oklahoma! The Senate passed a bill that would ban schools from using corporal punishment on children with disabilities.
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In SC, there were 1,800 suspensions during the 2022-23 school year. That’s double the amount in 2016-2017. Some experts call exclusionary discipline the “preschool-to-prison pipeline'...
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Becky Budds
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Pediatricians are urging Northern Ireland's politicians to remove the 'reasonable punishment defence' for the physical punishment of children from law.
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U.S. Ofc for Civil Rights has opened 13 new investigations into the misuse of restraint/seclusion in AZ, CA, LA, MD, MI, NC, NJ, PA, TN, TX... JUST THIS YEAR. See the schools here: ocrcas.ed.gov/open-investiga…
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