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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the reality is older people did have some really negative experiences at some religious schools.  My Dad and his sisters were transferred from Catholic school to public school back in the 60s due to the nuns aggressively hitting the kids.  My FIL in a different state also had a similar experience.

Most places are way better now, fortunately.[/quote]

To be fair, most Catholic schools were not like that back then either (none of the elderly in my family experienced that at all), but many schools of all kinds did use corporal punishment, especially in the South, and it was legal. Corporal punishment was fairly standard with parents and with schools, including public schools.

Corporal punishment is still legal in public schools TODAY in ~18 states. The practice was held constitutional in the 1977 Supreme Court case Ingraham v. Wright, where the Court held that the "cruel and unusual punishments" clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution did not apply to disciplinary corporal punishment in public schools, being restricted to the treatment of prisoners convicted of a crime. Since then most states have outlawed the practice.[/quote]

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