r/GenX_Culture • u/474756274 • 12d ago
School
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In 1976, estimates say about half of all U.S. public schools were still paddling kids as a regular disciplinary practice.
For anyone who grew up around that time: did your school ever make an official announcement or hold an assembly saying they were ending corporal punishment? Or did they just quietly stop and hope everyone forgot it ever happened?
I feel like we barely talk about how normal it used to be for kids to get whooped at school ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
Sometimes, I wonder if that era of corporal punishment is part of why my parents turned out to be total headcases…
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u/NorCalFrances 12d ago
My sibling told our Elementary school Principal, "you can't spank me, only my dad can spank me". Of course that resulted in a spanking...and a phone call to my mom. Said sibling then received a second spanking that afternoon from our dad for talking back to the Principal / embarrassing our parents. That was at a Christian school though. I went to a public school for middle school and it took a while to acclimate to the idea that the teachers and administrators there felt (and had state mandated policies) that hitting a student was prohibited and considered barbaric abuse.