For Legislators
Priority legislative requests
Ban corporal punishment in private schools and the home
In Private Schools
Our top legislative priority is to protect all California children from corporal punishment in schools. To do this, we seek a simple but critical amendment to Education Code § 49000 and Education Code § 49001 that adds “private school” to the existing language that currently protects only public-school students. No child’s safety should depend on the type of school they attend.
In the Home
Our long-term legislative priority is to protect all California children from corporal punishment, including in the home. To do this, we seek legislation amending Welfare & Institutions Code §300 to remove the "reasonable methods of parental discipline" language and ending the common-law parental disciplinary privilege, so that children have the same protection from being struck that Penal Code §240 already gives every adult.