Marc Ecko Launches 'Unlimited Justice' Campaign To End Corporal Punishment In Schools

Alarmed that corporal punishment is still used to discipline students in many U.S. schools, fashion designer Marc Ecko has launched a campaign to end the practice.

Ecko's campaign, Unlimited Justice, features a website and mobile app that offers information and tools to encourage Americans to take action to end corporal punishment pressuring state legislators to ban physical discipline.

FACTS:

• In all 50 states it is illegal to hit a prisoner
• In all 50 states it is illegal to hit someone in the military
• In all 50 states it is illegal to hit an animal
• Corporal Punishment in public schools is legal in the following 20 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming.
• 220,517 students received some form of corporal punishment in school in 2006 (according to the latest report of the US Dept of Education Office of Civil Rights Data)
• Of these students, 20,000 needed to seek medical attention for injuries suffered at the hands of their educators.
• In 20 states a student can be paddled in school for being late to class, acting out, going to the bathroom without permission, or even failing a test
• Students who are paddled have a higher likelihood of dropping out of school
• High school drop outs earn approximately $10,000 less than workers with diplomas
• High school drop outs are more likely to be unemployed or incarcerated
• High school drop out cost taxpayers $8 Billion annually in public services
• Over their lifetimes, high school drop outs from the Class of 2011 will cost the US over $200 BILLION in services and lost tax revenue
• Most people in the US don't even realize that paddling children in school remains legal in 20 states
• All US citizens have the right to due process prior to receiving a sentence or punishment. Yet, students in the 20 states where paddling is legal in schools are often denied this fundamental right.
• Students in schools were paddling is administered:
  1. Often have no format to appeal such punishment.
  2. May not have the ability to raise concerns over the legitimacy of the claims made against them.
  3. May not have the ability to raise concerns over the severity of the punishment being administered for their presumed violations.
• The practice of paddling children in school is one riddled with abuse, social, and racial inequality, and often exists without defined standards or effective definition.
• Victims and their families often lack the independent financial resources, support systems, processes, and reasonable formats in order to voice their concern over such abuses.
• The US is the only industrialized country that still allows students to be hit in school.
• Even Iran does not allow its students to be hit in school.
• 3 of 10 lowest ranking states in terms of education excellence are among the 20 that allow paddling in schools. (According to Education Week's Annual Education Report Card dated 1/14/10)
• 8 of the top 10 ranking states in terms of education excellence have banned paddling in schools. (According to Education Week's Annual Education Report Card dated 1/14/10)

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