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It remains legally available to private schools in half of States. [19] In the United States, 23 states allow corporal punishment in schools. There is some disagreement about how much paddling occurs in US schools. Some estimates place the number of paddlings at approximately 350,000 a year, while the National Association of School Psychologists[20] places the number at 1.5 million cases a year.[21]