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Old 12-24-2012, 09:41 PM
 
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I'm hoping some people who went to any Detroit-Area public schools in the 1960s read this...or anyone who taught at that time...or anyone who can ask relatives or anyone currently in their 50's on up what happened. This is what got me remembering. A few days ago I heard that corporal punishment in schools in Britain stopped in the mid 1940's. If that is true then Michigan was at least 15 years to 20 years behind. I so well remember the painful slap of the yardstick across the back of bare calves (girls could not wear pants till 1968) from a well-laid yardstick ...in the SECOND GRADE... for things
like NOT DOING HOMEWORK.
This was in a brand new school ..
..in Cortland Elementary in Highland Park.
Mrs. Caruso was her name. SECOND GRADE.. that was SIX YEARS OLD ...

I also remember the documentary Colorblind... about a reunion of a Detroit grade school class from the 1960s...a teacher had taught them well, they all said...not to be racist etc...but am I the only one that noticed? The part where they mention the wooden paddle? The grown man who mentions it in the movie...you can tell it was no small matter to ...to even mention it gave him fear...

Why was any of this ever OK? When did it ever stop?
I had friends growing up in Catholic and Lutheran private schools who never mentioned these things. I also remember Dossin Elementary ...once a teacher hit a boy on top of the head HARD with a book. The boy could hardly keep his tears back it hurt so bad. That was 1966 or 7. I think it was Mr Tobin ...
Any local historians out there who could look it up?

When did corporal punishment (if ever) become illegal for teachers in Michigan?
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Old 12-25-2012, 06:25 AM
 
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I went to school in the downriver suburbs where corporaL pumishment (aka paddling) went on into the mid-1970s at the middle school level.
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Old 12-25-2012, 07:58 AM
 
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Catholic schools practically perfected the art, my dear.
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Old 12-25-2012, 01:41 PM
 
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Wow...
Two replys so quickly...sorry to hear it...
Maclock...now that you mention it...I did see
"the Blues Brothers"...What was the point of treating
Children like criminals on a chain gang anyway?
I saw a George Gently episode..those were supposed
to take place in the mid-sixties-which said it had been banned
20 years before..but I just looked it up and apparently Parliament
did not ban it till 1987 ! And in private schools it went on till
up to 2003. SIGH.
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