Are there still schools that advocate it?

I know there are some schools that do still use corporal punishment. But even those seem to be very reluctant about it. As a last resort, opt out possible and so on. Is it just what they write publicly in the student and parent handbooks or is it their real policy about it? Are there still schools like many decades back that positively use corporal punishments as a primary tool for classroom discipline?

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SW-User

My kids attend a school that still has corporal punishment in the school handbook…& we’ve got to sign a permission form for it at the beginning of each school year, but you can of course opt out if you wanted to. My husband and I sign the form to allow it each year… though it’s unheard of that a kid is paddled, it’s used as a very very last resort they say…but kids just don’t get paddled anymore, I think they should just take it out of the handbook then, because the wooden paddle is collecting dust it seems.

Corporalcolleague · 61-69, M

@SW-User would the paddle be used in your home instead of at school?

SW-User

@Corporalcolleague we use a hairbrush.

Corporalcolleague · 61-69, M

@SW-User I PMd you