[tptacek]

North Carolina has one of the weaker municipal prohibitions on corporal punishment --- Charlotte prohibits most cases of corporal punishment, requires it to take place with another teacher as witness and away from other students, requires parental notification, and, to administer it at all, requires parental consent (albeit opt-out consent). It's not a great system.

On the other hand, in the '20-'21 school year, not one instance of corporal punishment was reported in all of North Carolina. Whatever else it is in NC, it's not common.

Obviously, at this point, with it so infrequent and so circumscribed, they should just ban it statewide.

[ttymck]

What are the requirements for reporting? And what are the repercussions for failing to report?

[tptacek]

I'm sure there's all sorts of unreported violence all over the place, not just in North Carolina, but we're discussing a state that explicitly authorizes corporal punishment, so the idea that they're employing it and then hiding it doesn't add up.