Every school day, more than one thousand US children are hit on the buttocks with boards called “paddles” for breaking school rules. A quarter of a million school children are paddled annually. Paddling leads to physical injuries of children, psychological problems, alienation from school, and lawsuits by angry parents. Nineteen states allow this punishment, a punishment considered inhumane, ineffective, and archaic in most of the world. Over 100 nations ban it. The book explores and refutes arguments for keeping corporal punishment in schools. It provides step-by-step suggestions for parents who wish to protect their children from this barbaric treatment, and provides tools for advocacy groups to get it banned in local, state and federal arenas. The successful actions of a small group of ordinary citizens in achieving a statewide ban in Ohio in 2009 provides a thread tying the book together. Through the book, the author seeks to accelerate the banning of school corporal punishment (paddling) in US schools through education and legal reform.