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Advocates for it could at least stop being cowards and call it inflicting physical pain on children.
(lemmy.world)
The usual suspects: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming
"Corporal Punishment," what a lovely, soft language term to legitimize literally terrorizing children through violence.
Ditto. I went to a public school in a state that allowed corporal punishment. It never happened and was never even threatened as a punishment outside of our 80 year old history teacher who'd joke about it "still being legal." Even if its technically allowed, the possible shitstorm a school administration could face for it makes a great deterrent (you know, besides basic decency). Things don't need to be illegal for people not to do them.
ETA: Our student handbook did outline the procedure for corporal punishment though. Some of the steps I remember was that it required the written permission of a parent being given per instance, no cross-gender spankings (i.e. no male teacher-female student), punishment couldn't be given by the same teacher who wrote for it and it couldn't happen in the classroom in front of the other kids.