Corporal Punishment 1984-1985, 1984-1985

NYSUT Background Paper for Regents’ Discussion of Corporal Punishment, primarily re assaults on teachers by students, November 27, 1984; memo from NYSUT general counsel discussing legal grounds for corporal punishment, including Biblical basis for common law presumption, and state and U.S. Supreme Court cases upholding corporal punishment as means of asserting school authority, January 29, 1985; correspondence re reporting requirements; memo to Regents from Education Commission Gordon Ambach noting that SED counsel had advised that they do not have the authority to ban corporal punishment, November 19, 1984