The author Pearl S. Buck once wrote, “If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”
A recent report from the United Nations Children’s Fund reveals that our country is failing us all.
The UNICEF report compares child well-being in 29 of the world’s most advanced economies. The U.S. ranked 26th in overall child well-being and in the bottom seven countries in material well-being; health and safety; educational well-being; housing and environment; and life satisfaction.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Hundreds of advocates for North Carolina children say they came to Raleigh to encourage General Assembly members to invest in education and health care and reduce the number of people tried as adults for low-level crimes.
Doctors, child care operators, parents and law enforcement officials visited legislators on Wednesday and tried to highlight the importance of funding programs that help children. They came following several years of spending cuts under both Democratic and Republican leadership at the legislature.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Hundreds of advocates for North Carolina children visited Raleigh on Wednesday to encourage General Assembly members to invest in education and health care and reduce the number of teenagers tried as adults for low-level crimes.
Doctors, child care operators, parents and law enforcement officials visited legislators and heard speeches on the lawn behind the Legislative Building as toddlers and others played in the midday sun with hula hoops and a life-sized game of Chutes and Ladders.
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North Carolina's state school board is considering a stand against using physical pain to enforce discipline even as the number of children paddled in public schools falls fast.
The State Board of Education plans to vote Thursday on a statement opposing corporal punishment, which is still allowed in a dozen or so of the state's 115 districts. The state board's resolution doesn't include asking the General Assembly to outlaw the practice that fell by half in the last academic year.
The state Board of Education on Thursday approved a resolution opposing the use of corporal punishment in schools.
The board has no authority to ban the practice, which is still used by nine of the 115 school districts across the state, according to Action for Children North Carolina, a child advocacy group. State law presently leaves it up to each district to decide whether it will allow schools to inflict physical pain to enforce discipline. Read a full story here.
RALEIGH School systems across the state gradually are dropping the use of spanking and paddling. The State Board of Education is encouraging the remaining ones to stop, too.
The board voted at its meeting Thursday to oppose the use of corporal punishment in all North Carolina schools.
The State Board of Education passed a resolution Thursday opposing the use of corporal punishment in public schools.
The board's action would not affect local school boards' policies on paddling as a disciplinary method. State law gives local boards the authority to make those decisions, and a law would be required to impose a statewide ban.
The vote was intended to show the state board's stance on the issue, said a spokesman for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
