Over 70,000 public school students per year are subject to corporal punishment in the U.S.—one of the only industrialized countries where it has not been outlawed.
“routinely physically restrain students or confine them alone in small rooms” and, sadly, parents are very often unaware unless the abuse results in serious physical harm or death.
the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which also clearly outlaws corporal punishment and protects children against “cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.” , the United States remains beholden to social norms that allow for the misplaced and outdated mindset of “spare the rod, spoil the child.”Mississippi accounts forBut the statistics are alarming even in states like New York, where corporal punishment is banned.
Black boys are twice more likely to be physically punished than white boys and Black girls are three times more likely than their white counterparts. captures our hearts and imaginations because, in the end, she triumphs—Trunchbull suffers a fate befitting a villain and Matilda is adopted by the lovely Miss Honey. The audience is spared a deeper reckoning over the lifelong harm and trauma caused by the punishments suffered at the hands of a misguided adult.
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