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32 Comments
Grew up in California and went to college in South Carolina.
It completely blew my mind when my South Carolina college classmates told me about getting paddled in school. They called it “gettin’ your lickin’s.”
Better be actin’ right in the South
I’m a teacher in Oklahoma. While it is legal state-wide for schools to use corporal punishment for most students, pretty much every district has policies against it. It is de facto banned.
Confederates just like whippin’ people.
Actual proof of American social backwardness
Principal Woods had a paddle named Attitude Adjuster
When I was in school, most boys preferred “swats” to D-Hall.
Common Texas L
Common Florida L
Rare Idaho W
I love that the parents that cite this as something that needs to come back are the first ones to say that they’d never tolerate teachings using it on their kids.
Most districts in Texas ban corporal punishment
Oh look it’s all the same states where men wanna marry 14 year olds. I am so shocked.
Looks a bit like the civil war map🤔🤔 very interesting parelel
I moved to Tennessee in 2005, my sophomore year, my parents had to sign something specifically they could not hit me. I saw other kids get the paddle.
Southern US moment
How is this still legal like wtf lol
Welcome to Alabama where we paddle retarded kids. /s
Seriously though, I grew up in Alabama and I got at least 3 paddlings at school.
I clearly remember not even knowing why I got the first one and just being confused. Not sure what the second one was, but I’m sure I deserved it. Last one was in junior high and I definitely deserved it, but it all ended up being funny afterwards.
I’ll tell you first hand that paddling hurts. I’ve seen lots of kids come back to class trying real hard to stop crying. If you get one or see a few, then the threat of paddling is a very effective deterrent on most kids. The problem is that a minority of kids don’t care, and the sad irony is that the ones who don’t care are the ones who need spanked the most. The kids who do care would probably also respond to a different less violent punishment.
Never been a fan of school corporal punishment, but 100% support parents spanking. Teaches an important lesson when also paired with verbal instruction and explaining.
Even in states where CP is banned, [it is still being used.](https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/19/us-children-corporal-punishment-schools)
ALL the US maps with absurd data has the same states on display.
In Ohio in the 90s they still had it.
Even in 1st grade I noticed how fucked up it was that it was *always* the black kids who got sent in to be hit, even tho it was usually that little blonde brat Roger acting like a terrorist.
Would be interesting to overlay this and data on educational outcomes.
In the 80s in Texas it was still being used, but you needed parents permission. When I was in school in the late 90s to yearly 2010s, none of the schools allowed it. It apparently still happens in some small town. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/19/texas-principal-corporal-punishment/#:~:text=In%20March%2C%20U.S.%20Secretary%20of,to%20his%20duties%20as%20principal.
We got paddled in the 80’s in Illinois. They definitely need to bring it back, but people are toooo sensitive these days.
I would imagine children and some of these red states can be beaten half to death for failing to memorize biblical verses that will be taught in public schools? Does this include disabled kids? It seems to when some of these states
Surprised Massachusetts isn’t orange. Since the Judge Rotenburg Center is still open clearly they don’t care. Those disabled students have less rights than prisoners, for the crime of being born that way
I wonder if corporal punishment is still used in any of these states. We’d have to go through the policies of each school district. It could be one of those things that’s still legal in the state, but nobody does it anymore and nobody bothered passing a law.
Rather than corporal punishment, expelled for the rest of the year would be better. As a former student of public schools. When I went to school, the bad kids constantly disrupted the classrooms and nothing happened to stop them. My education was destroyed in highschool because of them. Kick them out of school, they all ended up in prison anyway.
They absolutely do not do it in Tennessee. I just don’t believe that they still use it anywhere tbh
In Wales, where I live, all corporate punishment of children is illegal. It is classed as assault and if convicted, can result in gaol time.
Utah says one thing on the Internet and does a completely different thing. It’s common in Utah for teachers and staff to abuse kids, especially in private schools. Just a heads up
The “unused” part in Colorado schools was not true in the 90’s I can confirm.
Went to school in South Dakota, and there were wooden paddles at the chalkboard until we were in the 5th grade.