Did you ever attend a school where corporal punishment was allowed?

Question

Answer 1

Yes, and I didn't like it.

Answer 2

No but my grandparents have I think.

Answer 3

Both mine allowed it..but that was perfectly normal at the time.

Abolished when I was teaching.

Answer 4

Nope.

Answer 5

Yes, elementary school (started school in 1952).  It didn't happen regularly ... just the knowledge of the consequences was usually enough.

Comments

My parents told me of elementary school stories where the principal was supposed to have a length of rubber hose in his office with which to spank delinquent kids, but they never knew anybody that actually was given the hose treatment.

Answer 6

Yes, like 12 years ago when I was in school.

Answer 7

Many Indian schools are stricter than schools in the U.S:-

1. Students here have to wear uniforms

The school uniform clothing, shoes, belt, and girls have their hair tied up with a ribbon. There will be punishment for not wearing any of it.

2. For talking in Tamil

The students have to talk in English inside the school campus even if there are grammar mistakes. The students who talks in Tamil would be punished.

3. For not cutting nails or hair.

4. Also, for not doing home works or other study-related.

The punishment is usually beating on the hands with a stick, rarely on the butt.

Comments

Catholic schools in the US are more strict than public schools, but I think they have abolished all forms of corporal punishment. (they used to hit misbehaving students on the hands (usually the palms) with a ruler in Catholic schools.)

What does Mat. Hr. stand for?.

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Yeah, on palms here as well. Matriculation Higher Secondary School. There are around 8,386 schools in our state, more than 3,000 are administered by the Tamil Nadu Catholic Education Council of South India. The school I studied is run by Seva Missionary Sisters of Marry founder by John Kottaram - https://www.sevamissionary.org/education.html. There are also other Catholic schools run by others such as Sisters of St. Franciscan Clarist Congregation as the followers of St.Francis of Assisi, etc.

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Quite a few more boys than girls in the classes in these pictures.

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Yeah.

Answer 8

No.