{"id":373342,"date":"2016-03-31T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/state\/iowa-law\/iowa-corporal-punishment-in-public-schools-laws.html"},"modified":"2016-06-20T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T00:50:08","slug":"iowa-corporal-punishment-in-public-schools-laws","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.findlaw.com\/state\/iowa-law\/iowa-corporal-punishment-in-public-schools-laws.html","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Corporal Punishment in Public Schools Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Iowa Corporal Punishment in Public Schools Laws<\/h1>\n
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Many years ago, corporal punishment, or paddling in schools, was a normal form of discipline<\/a>. Iowa is one of the 31 U.S. states and D.C. that has banned the infliction of corporal punishment on students. This practice was banned in Iowa in 1989<\/a>. This corporal punishment law applies not only to public schools, but also to accredited private schools. Only Iowa and New Jersey also ban corporal punishment in private schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To be clear, schoolchildren in Iowa can be physically touched by a school employee in certain reasonable circumstances, specifically when:<\/p>\n