We swore off the idea of corporal punishment before we had kids. And it has made me keenly aware of how violence against children is normalized.

marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them] · 4 years ago

We swore off the idea of corporal punishment before we had kids. And it has made me keenly aware of how violence against children is normalized.

BuildingOnFire [none/use name] · 4 years ago

I was in elementary school back in 1980 and I remember our male gym "teacher" grabbing two boys each by their hair and knocking their heads together. Monstrous. Right before having 8 year olds pick teams, which was brutal for the kids picked last. This was in the US, public school in NY.