On October 2, the Graham County School Board quietly joined all the other 114 local school districts in North Carolina by voting to prohibit the use of corporal punishment in the public schools. Thus, for the first time in the history of our state (as well as the colony before it), no students attending public schools will fear being hit by a teacher or principal. This is the culmination of an advocacy odyssey that began in 1991 when the NC General Assembly declined to prohibit the practice of corporal punishment statewide, but allowed local school boards to decide to stop hitting students as...