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TITLE 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION 33000-65001›DIVISION 4. INSTRUCTION AND SERVICES 46000-65001›PART 27. PUPILS 48000-49703›CHAPTER 6. Pupil Rights and Responsibilities 48900-49056›ARTICLE 5. Prohibition of Corporal Punishment 49000-49001

§ 49000

California Education Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

The Legislature finds and declares that the protection against corporal punishment, which extends to other citizens in other walks of life, should include children while they are under the control of the public schools. Children of school age are at the most vulnerable and impressionable period of their lives and it is wholly reasonable that the safeguards to the integrity and sanctity of their bodies should be, at this tender age, at least equal to that afforded to other citizens.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1069, Sec. 2.)

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