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Illinois will become just the fifth state in the nation to prohibit corporal punishment in all schools.
The American Association of Pediatrics says it can increase behavioral or mental health problems and impair cognitive development.
The U.S. was the convention’s lone holdout.
The World Health Organization has decreed the practice “a violation of children's rights to respect for physical integrity and human dignity”.
For student athletes, discipline or correction on the football field or the volleyball court would have to go beyond the pale to qualify as corporal punishment.
“There’s a red line there, that hitting kids should never be allowed,” Croke said.
Republican concern that imposing the requirement on private schools could facilitate rules affecting curriculum.
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