When I was training to be a teacher, we had a couple of classes that included discussion of the legal right of teachers to use corporal punishment in state schools and the regulations which governed that, but it was probably less than fifteen minutes in total, and when I found myself doing my teaching practice I rapidly found out that the regulations were ignored in some schools at least – I saw a girl strapped on the first day, which was expressly forbidden, and I was given a strap and told to use it if I had to, which student teachers were not supposed to do. The knowledge was also fairly useless as I didn’t wind up teaching in the state system.
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