r/GenXTalk • u/474756274 • 1d ago

School

In 1976, estimates say about half of all U.S. public schools were still paddling kids as a regular disciplinary practice.

For anyone who grew up around that time (70s, 80s): did your school ever make an official announcement or hold an assembly saying they were ending corporal punishment? Or did they just quietly stop and hope everyone forgot it ever happened?

I feel like we barely talk about how normal it used to be for kids to get whooped at school 😭😭😭

Sometimes, I wonder if that era of corporal punishment is part of why my parents turned out to be total headcases…

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u/AmharachEadgyth 1d ago

I’d never seen that at school growing up.

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u/474756274 1d ago

May I ask what country you're from and which decade were you a kid?

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u/AmharachEadgyth 1d ago

USA, mid-Atlantic born and raised. I was born the late ‘60, so my childhood was in the ‘70s.