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In reply to the discussion: DUers, Did Your School Use Corporal Punishment? [View all]syringis
(5,101 posts)It is also forbidden to humiliate a kid in any manner like putting him in a corner with a hat with humiliating sentences or put shame on him verbally...
All these fall under the Law.
Here, kids go very early to school : at 2.5 years. It is not mandatory before 6 years but they all start at 2.5 years.
It helps socialization, to detect as early as possible a problem, to evaluate the child capacities in the aim to put him in the accurate learning environment, or if needed, in a specialized school,...
Between 4 and 6 years, they start to learn counting, the alphabet, to read in a ludic way. It is of course very basic but really helpful for the next years.
Many schools also teach basis of a foreign language. Sometimes in 2 languages.
Many lawmakers want to make it a mandatory because of the real benefits for kids to start as early as 2.5 years. They also practice a little sport, again in a ludic and fun way.
I didn't know corporal punishment were allowed in the US. There is no benefit in such methods.