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Re:Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids by theorique on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @04:44PM (#12501057)
In American schools violence is often institutionalized. Teacher beat children, children get used to violence.

Has this been permitted within the last 50 years? It definitely happened in the 1960s and earlier, but corporal punishment has not been a thing in American schools for a long time.

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Re:Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids by bhickey on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:31PM (#12501367)
Yes. Corporal punishment in public schools is legal in 19 states. It's actually carried out in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Texas.
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Re:Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids by DanBC on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:38PM (#12501422)
According to http://www.corpun.com/counuss.htm

Corporal punishment is widespread in Alabama, Arkansas and Mississippi schools.

Corporal punishment is routine in some schools in smaller districts of Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.

It's only in 2011 that parents had the right to prevent their children being hit at school.

(This is all public schools. Hitting children in private schools is legal in all but 2 states.)

This isn't just children. Some 18 and 19 year olds attend schools and a subjected to physical violence as punishment.

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Re:Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids by theorique on Monday September 19, 2016 @12:14PM (#12532518)
Wow - I stand corrected.
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Re:Teen Creates “Sit with Us” App for Bullied Kids by DanBC on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @05:42PM (#12501443)
We don't have statistics for private schools in the US.

Over 100,000 students received corporal punishment in 2011/2012. (And some of them will have been hit on more than one occasion)

http://www.corpun.com/counuss.htm

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