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Advocates for it could at least stop being cowards and call it inflicting physical pain on children. (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"Corporal Punishment," what a lovely, soft language term to legitimize literally terrorizing children through violence.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ditto. I went to a public school in a state that allowed corporal punishment. It never happened and was never even threatened as a punishment outside of our 80 year old history teacher who'd joke about it "still being legal." Even if its technically allowed, the possible shitstorm a school administration could face for it makes a great deterrent (you know, besides basic decency). Things don't need to be illegal for people not to do them.

ETA: Our student handbook did outline the procedure for corporal punishment though. Some of the steps I remember was that it required the written permission of a parent being given per instance, no cross-gender spankings (i.e. no male teacher-female student), punishment couldn't be given by the same teacher who wrote for it and it couldn't happen in the classroom in front of the other kids.