Ending
Corporal Punishment
The practice of corporal punishment hurts; which is a pervasive behaviroal modification tactic woven into the fabric of disciplinary policies and practices, but is rooted in racism and slavery!
FedSDC's Corporal Punishment
Working Group
Finding Inspiration in Every Student, Youth, and Child
While FedSDC's Corporal Punishment working group has a particular focus on abolishing the use corporal punishment and eliminating it's use through state, local, and federal policy moving federal policy, we have a very hyperlocal focus. Our work on corporal punishment is both intentional and strategic working at the highest levels of the federal government. We also work deeply in communities such as Mississippi, and with community leaders to advance local efforts in places FedSDC has been called on to provide policy expertise, legislative actions, support, guidance, and/or create advocacy strategies that center abolotion and community led approaches.
There are three primary components of FedSDC's Corporal Punishment Working Group:
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Litigation and accountability aimed at ending corporal punishment in MS and at federal level;
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Research and Messaging; (i.e., development of briefing papers and reports; and collaboration with Research Collaborative and Comms to develop campaigns as well as raise social media awareness around the issue of corporal punishment); and
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Influnencing policy change through state, local, and federal policy (Protecting Our Students in Schools Act, among other federal bills).
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