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Did teachers hit students in your school growing up?
Duckyreddy:
The worst I got was a blackboard eraser on the forehead and a bamboo stick to my palm.
This was Elementary school. :))
kiwi99:
I'm not even that old and in french school I got hit on the hands/wrist sometimes :p
Findecanor:
I'm from Sweden. Back in the late '80s, I twice got manhandled by the neck: once removed from a class, and once dragged into a classroom by a teacher who had spotted me out of class.
Today, that kind of treatment is borderline illegal, mainly because of how parents have become more sensitive. There was a recent case of a teacher just holding a troublesome pupil, which got to trial — which the teacher rightfully won.
Actual corporal punishment in schools has been illegal since the 1950's. Parents hitting their kids became illegal in 1979 if I'm not mistaken.
chyros:
Hah, no ****ing way, they'd have gotten fired immediately.
clappingcactus:
Yeah, got multiple slaps. One time a meter stick on the side of my arm repeatedly. One teacher actually made me stand outside in terrible weather, and to make sure I did it, she stood with me.
As ****ed up as it sounds, the punishment usually scaled evenly with my misbehavior so I never saw it as something I didn't deserve. Though I could totally see that it also wasn't necessary at all. It's not like I knew I did something wrong because I was punished for it.
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