Corporal Punishment in school is still legal and used in 22 states in America.
“When a teacher hits a child in school, several things happen,” says Peters Bennett. “That child has a huge neurological stress response in the brain. Their pre-frontal cortex shuts down. They’re no longer thinking, problem solving, seeing cause and effect, experiencing empathy. Their lizard brain, or their lower brain, is now activated. The child might get vacant. They might disassociate slightly. So, you have basically made it so the child is less capable of self-regulation, of managing themselves and staying in their seat and following rules."
Alternative discipline techniques teach children to be self disciplined rather than cooperate out of fear.
Educators should not be hitting children.