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Can we pls call it what it is: Child abuse. Violence against children is child abuse and has serious consequences. We should shame and punish people for violence against children.

There were always rumors of those things when I went to school in California in the seventies and eighties, especially how the principal would drill holes in it so he could swing faster, but I never saw one with my own eyes or knew any kids who had endured it.

I raised my daughter in Texas (long story that and I apologize though she didn't seem to mind). I don't recall any mention of paddles throughout her school years. I honestly have no idea if they get used anywhere in the state.

The only paddles I ever saw of that ilk at any age were decorative fraternity paddles many, many years after they'd ceased any and all actual use.

I'm curious how often this happens in these states.

Edit: Looked to Texas law on this, and parents have to opt OUT of it in writing each year. So you opt out in first grade, you have to do it again in second grade, etc. I never received such notice.

Edit edit: Jesus Christ:

According to the Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection, of the schools that used corporal punishment in the 2015-16 school year, 130 are in North Texas. The level of corporal punishment in those North Texas schools varied from 0.1% of the student body to 88.6%. All told, more than 2,100 North Texas students were paddled that year.

That’s the most recent data available. Only three of those 130 North Texas schools have explicitly banned the practice since 2016.

When I was in grade school principle had a big black paddle that he would spank kids with. The parents had to be informed and agree to it. A couple of the kinds in my class got it every year.

Guess who's behavior always got worse after that.

A couple of them eventually got expelled after smashing the principles car up with rocks. They also hit him with a few of them as well.

They call it torture if you do it to prisoners but totally fine for our children!

In my place it's illegal but apparently no one cares and that's how parents and teachers show their "love" towards their child.

Source:

• https://www.legalbites.in/beating-students/
• https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/Jun/03/indian-parents-use-30-different-kinds-of-abuse-on-kids-from-0-to-6-years-unicef-study-2151607.html

I know how unpopular my opinion is, but I do believe limited corporal punishment can be effective in child tearing. However, I absolutely do not think a teacher or school official should be administering it.

One of those places just doesn't belong with the others, but often has the same legislation as the others, so birds of a feather I suppose. Get your shit together Colorado.

For far less horrifying reasons I have very recently seen what that can do to someone

Hitting a kid with that thing is one of the most low down things a person could ever even consider doing, second only to the shit that'll get you murdered in prison.

I've always been torn on physical punishment for kids but that turmoil ends when it comes to schools.

There is zero reason anyone besides the parent should even think about doing that.

* for adults

Children hitting each other is perfectly fine everywhere s/

It's even indirectly encouraged by punishing the victim instead of the assailant.