The bill allowing parents of students with disabilities to prevent their child from being subject to corporal punishment is scheduled to be heard in the NCGA Senate Education Committee tomorrow, June 30th at 10. Currently neither parents nor students have the right to prevent the student from being subject to corporal punishment. This bill will change that as well as requiring important reporting from school districts on their use of corporal punishment to the State Department of Public Instruction. Once the bill passes this committee, HB 1682 Students with Disabilities and Corporal Punishment will be headed to the Senate floor for a vote by the full Senate. The bill passed the House unanimously.

Previous posts detail the use of corporal punishment on students in North Carolina.