On October 5th, 2025, a viral video was posted to X, with the caption “Dad found out daughter snuck a boy in the house 😬”. The video consists of a father angrily barging into his daughter’s room, and proceeding to smash his daughter’s television with a hockey club. The father yells at the daughter, saying…
Tamara “Tammi” Hamby, a former Crawford County Library Board member, plans to use Arkansas’ “choice of evils” defense against charges arising after orchestrating an insane staged kidnapping of her 22-year-old daughter, who has developmental and physical disabilities. According to prosecutors, Hamby organized a frightening “scare tactic” intended to teach her daughter a lesson about online…
Recently, a disturbing violation of Student Privacy has come to light. Seven families with children at McAdams High School in Attala County, Mississippi, have filed a federal lawsuit against the Attala County School District after an alleged strip search of students on February 10, 2026. According to the lawsuit and families’ attorneys, a school resource…
Most people are familiar with the “school to prison pipeline,” the collection of systemic practices and policies that funnel young people directly from the public education system into the prison system. Many studies have been conducted and papers published about how marginalized young people are negatively impacted by this pipeline. Recent publications have gone even…
NYRA-Twin Cities has been in operation for several years now. Amy O’Connell, President, has been leading the group for almost half a decade. Amy’s passion for youth rights came from her own experience dealing with adults. She was largely bullied in middle school and found that adults made the problem worse. She became involved in…
Jordan Riak, founder of Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education (PTAVE) and long-time ally of NYRA in the campaign against corporal punishment died this week. Jordan Riak has devoted his life to stopping corporal punishment since 1974. He was a major force opposing the brutal practice both in the United States and in Australia,…
Can’t attend the upcoming rally in Washington, DC against corporal punishment in our schools? You can still share your views. During the second day of the event, NYRA Executive Director Bill Bystricky will join other activists in reading comments submitted from across America. If you have a personal experience with corporal punishment in school, send…
The most basic right people of any age have is the right to physical safety, the right not to be harmed or touched against your will. Yet there are public schools in America where students are routinely hit by the very authority figures entrusted to keep them safe. Even in 2012, corporal punishment is still…
So, by now, we’ve all heard about that horrible man who made a video shooting his daughter’s laptop because… he was upset over something she said about him on Facebook. Something he only even knew about because he hacked into her account somehow, apparently. Perhaps even more disturbing than the idea this even happened is…
NYRA is headed to one of the largest music festivals in the country, SXSW, next week in order to promote our efforts to end corporal punishment in the United States. For the week, we’ll be partnering with The Hitting Stops Here!, People Opposed to Paddling Students and Marc Ecko’s new organization – Unlimited Justice. NYRA Director…
