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In American schools violence is often institutionalized. Teacher beat children, children get used to violence. Has this been permitted within the last 50 years
by theorique 10y ago
In American schools violence is often institutionalized. Teacher beat children, children get used to violence.
Has this been permitted within the last 50 years? It definitely happened in the 1960s and earlier, but corporal punishment has not been a thing in American schools for a long time.
- bhickey 10y agoYes. Corporal punishment in public schools is legal in 19 states. It's actually carried out in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Texas.
- DanBC 10y agoAccording to http://www.corpun.com/counuss.htm http://www.corpun.com/counuss.htm Corporal punishment is widespread in Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi schools. Corporal punishment is routine in some schools in smaller districts of Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. It's only in 2011 that parents had the right to prevent their children being hit at school. (This is all public schools. Hitting children in private schools is legal in all but 2 states.) This isn't just children. Some 18 and 19 year olds attend schools and a subjected to physical violence as punishment.
- theorique 10y agoWow - I stand corrected.
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- DanBC 10y agoWe don't have statistics for private schools in the US. Over 100,000 students received corporal punishment in 2011/2012. (And some of them will have been hit on more than one occasion) http://www.corpun.com/counuss.htm http://www.corpun.com/counuss.htm