18-year-old cheerleader said a paddling by an assistant principal in Florida left her with black, blue, and purple bruises and that the paddling stemmed from a misunderstanding about Christmas decorations on a campus door.

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Here are the 16 states where corporal punishment is legal in schools: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming.

Also, this seems very sexual for the principal. He’s a perv.

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This isn't even corporal punishment; it's abuse. While corporal punishment IS allowed in some cases, in Florida it's child abuse if it leaves bruises like this. Also, teachers in Florida are mandatory reporters, so someone in that's school is legally required to call Child Protection Services and on the principal to report child abuse.

SlurpinNBurpin

I got paddlers in Alabama my senior year and after the coach got so upset he threw a desk and it broke a window.

That was in public school lmao. It’s crazy they name their paddles make grips and write weird shit all over it.

blessthebabes

Yes, they do. A lot of teachers would keep them on their desk or wrap masking tape around them. Very few kids were "redlined", which meant their parents did not consent to their kid being paddled at school. So, I guess they could opt out? We got paddled in elementary through high school as a form of punishment (I graduated in 06 in MS).

SlurpinNBurpin

I believe you could opt out but I don’t know anyone who ever did. One of my oldest memories is being paddled for not doing my spelling right in kindergarten