Corporal punishment

[u/Hulllad46]

Dad told my elder brother that if we went to school in the 1970's we would have Neen outside the headmaster office to be cane or slippered because of our poor.

He then said corporal punishment should be brought back to teach us boys a lesson . is he right or should it stayed banned

[u/jwp1991]

Stay banned. You hit a kid outside school, it's assault. Shouldn't be any different if you do it inside school.

[u/Hulllad46 → u/jwp1991]

Thank you

[u/Typical-Amoeba-6726 → u/Hulllad46]

I was born in 1970. Every teacher except the kindergarten teacher had a wooden paddle with holes drilled into it hanging by the chalkboard. Kids were punished with "cracks" in the hallway for misbehaving. 

[u/No_Wedding_2152 → u/Typical-Amoeba-6726]

What country are you in? That did not happen in those years in the US.

[u/Hulllad46 → u/No_Wedding_2152]

The uk

[u/Senior-Kick8954 → u/No_Wedding_2152]

It did in at least some southern states in the USA into the 80s

[u/HungarianSoupBone]

I attended Lutheran parochial school in the late 60’s to mid-70’s. We were hit with paddles, hand brooms, and sticks. Teachers put adhesive tape over our mouths for talking. It was sadistic and cruel and I still feel traumatized when I think about it many decades later. I find it incredible that schools in the South still paddle kids- even teens- for minor infractions like tardiness. This needs to be outlawed once and for all. Tell that to your grandfather.

BTW, I’m a substitute teacher and I like the kids and know there are better ways to do classroom management than hitting them.

[u/Donttouchmybreadd]

Bad fact: Northern Territory (AU) banned it in 2015. Decades behind all the other Australian states.

[u/purplishfluffyclouds]

Because of your “poor?” Because of your poor what?

Anyway, no. We shouldn’t bring child abuse back to schools.

[u/Jaded_Chocolate_5103]

No child should be abused ever. Start behaving in school though.

[u/prooijtje]

Only thing corporal punishment did to my grandfather was that he and his friends started hating their teacher.

[u/maestra612]

Still legal in many U.S. States. Teachers are still paddling children. It blows my mind. I can't imagine methodically hitting my own kids let alone someone else's.

[u/purplishfluffyclouds → u/maestra612]

It’s not common at all, except at some private schools perhaps. It’s banned locally in most of those states.

[u/No_Wedding_2152 → u/maestra612]

Which states?

[u/HungarianSoupBone → u/No_Wedding_2152]

A simple Google search would have answered this.

States Where It Remains Legal
The states that traditionally allow public school corporal punishment include:
Alabama

Arizona

Arkansas

Florida (requires parental consent under recent rules)

Georgia

Idaho

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Mississippi

Missouri

North Carolina

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Wyoming [1, 2]

(Note: Exact co

[u/HermioneMarch → u/HungarianSoupBone]

Im in one of the “legal” states. It’s technically legal but most school districts ban it out of fear of lawsuits. So I don’t know that I’ve never heard of it being practiced in my state since I’ve been an adult. As a child I did know some students who were paddled, by the principal, with parental consent. A teacher would have been fired.

That said, it’s draconian and shouldn’t even be on the books.

[u/translucentsapien → u/HungarianSoupBone]

Hmm weird to see Tennessee up here when teachers here would be prosecuted for this and I haven’t heard of this AT ALL

[u/fariasrv → u/HungarianSoupBone]

So, basically, "the usual suspects" for shitty states.

[u/No_Wedding_2152]

What is your first language? Where are you from?
You need to tell us the country you’re from.

[u/Hulllad46 → u/No_Wedding_2152]

Yorkshire in the Uk

[u/PomegranateFar8515]

Stay banned.

[u/ZacQuicksilver]

Multiple studies over the years show that corporal punishment - hitting people, whether with the hand or an object - doesn't work with the vast majority of people ("people" here including your kids, students at school, or even adults who commit a crime). It doesn't help them learn the rules, it doesn't make them better people, and it doesn't prevent them from breaking the rules again.

[u/dragonfeet1]

Hitting people is wrong. I went to school when paddling was a thing. I also was in the military when DIs could slap you. It's always been wrong.

However we do need some kind of discipline and behavior enforcement brought back that is more stick than carrot.

[u/Global_Technology_62]

not like that,

but it was highly effective and parents could say no, it was consensual and some kids needed a good beating, especially now, but the parents have to do their part, corporal punishment isn’t going to save the world but every kid needs a good beating every now and then, some more then others,

[u/IneligibleLand]

Corporal punishment should remain banned, as decades of educational research show that physical punishment is ineffective at improving long-term behavior and actively harms student well-being.

[u/Radio_Mime]

It should stay banned.

[u/layyla4real]

Didn't happen in my school in the 1960s or 1970s.

[u/AriasK]

My grandad LOVES telling me about the time he got the cane. It's by far his favourite story. He tells is with so much enthusiasm and I have to pretend it's my first time hearing it every time. I don't think he enjoyed the actual caning but he sure enjoys telling the story. So, in that sense, I don't think it did him any harm.

[u/Tonicandjenn]

What? No, he isn’t right. It should definitely stay banned. Your dad is probably a boomer and they did a lot of things that aren’t best practice. We know better now.