Rubber hoses, steel-edged rulers used in school punishment

 

In a survey of 758 United States secondary schools a professor found ‘The rubber hose, steel-edged ruler and rod are still to be found in some teachers’ and administrators’ desks and offices.

‘Punishments such as keeping hands above the head on a mark on the wall … sitting in a dark room’ were also discovered.

This from a 1957 news report that asked ‘Is corporal punishment out of date?’ Below that is a survey of corporal punishment in schools undertaken by a local newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, United States.

Associated Press report

Both reports as published in the Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia, United States), 12 May 1957.

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