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| | Facts About Corporal Punishment |
 | | Corporal punishment is used much more often on poor children, minorities, children with disabilities, and boys. |
 | | Corporal punishment is often not used as a last resort. |
 | | Alternatives to corporal punishment include emphasizing positive behaviors of students, realistic rules consistently enforced, instruction that reaches all students, conferences with students for planning acceptable behavior, parent/teacher conferences about student behavior, use of staff such as school psychologists and counselors, detentions, in-school suspension and Saturday school. |
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