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Cal. Education Code § 49000 (2026)

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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.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 1981–2020 · leading case: Clausing v. San Francisco Unified Sch. Dist., 221 Cal. App. 3d 1224 (Cal. Ct. App. 1990).

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Clausing v. San Francisco Unified Sch. Dist., 221 Cal. App. 3d 1224 (Cal. Ct. App. 1990). · cites it 3× “Thus, Education Code sections 49000 and 49001, as enacted in 1986 (Stats.”

Slayton v. Pomona Unified Sch. Dist., 161 Cal. App. 3d 538 (Cal. Ct. App. 1984). “) 17 Education Code section 49000 provides: “The governing board of any school district may adopt rules and regulations authorizing teachers, principals, and other certificated personnel to administer reasonable corporal or other punishment to pupils when such action is deemed…”

Johnson v. Dep't of Soc. Servs., 123 Cal. App. 3d 878 (Cal. Ct. App. 1981). “” (Ed. Code, §§ 49000, 49001.) Essentially, the Johnsons challenge a policy decision by Social Services to prohibit corporal punishment in licensed day care centers.”

M.M. v. San Juan Unified Sch. Dist. (E.D. Cal. 2020). “See Cal. Educ. Code § 49000 7 (legislative finding and declaration, in part, that “[c]hildren of school age are at the most 8 vulnerable and impressionable period of their lives.”

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