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Experts tell committee to ban corporal punishment in private schools; H625 backed by researchers and advocates
Summary
Researchers and advocates urged the Joint Committee on Education to extend Massachusetts' public‑school ban on corporal punishment to private schools through H625, citing studies that link hitting children in schools to injury, worse academic outcomes and disproportionate use against Black students and students with disabilities.
Don Balota, an advocate, and researchers including Dr. George Holden and Dr. Elizabeth Gershoff testified in support of H625, which would ban corporal punishment in private schools in Massachusetts. Dr. Gershoff summarized decades of research and said school corporal punishment…
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