They have been used twice since officers received training on them at the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, and are only in use at middle and high schools.
In one case at a high school, the officer used a glove on a student for “noncompliance.”
In short, the purpose is to torture kids
My parents and grandparents used to tell me about how 50+ years ago in Spain, during the dictatorship of Franco, the shortie asshole fascist, physical punishment was the norm in schools which, considering the state of Magastan… it’s more or less in line with what you’d expect from a retrograde fascist dictatorship.
Corporal punishment is still legal in 19 states according to a quick googling. I can’t think of a country that didn’t have physical punishment in public schools 50+ years ago.
It’s been illegal in Swedish schools since 1958, close to 70 years. Almost 50 years since it was made illegal also in the home (1979).