"Yet a few weeks back, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer, "at Cramp Elementary School in West Kensington, . . . disciplinarian Fred Creel was removed from his post in part because he required children to write sentences 100 times as a form of punishment. School officials told Creel . . . that they considered such assignments a form of corporal punishment and detrimental to the education process.""
Not school CP but some unfortunate lost his job when he complained about parsimonious funding and used the "n" word (niggardly). He was accused of racism by the illerate.
Surely, if writting lines is corporal punishment then so is being sacked.
Saro
Harry Potter
March 27 2004, 7:51 AM
JK Rowling offered a comment of sorts on this topic in the episode where Harry is punished by writing lines that magically scratch themselves into his hand. Taken literally the offense is that there's physical pain actually inflincted (blood is drawn). But I think it might be read/taken that there is in this event a likening or association at very least of the mental pain of line writing with the physical pain of the scratching pen.
Who out there punished with line writing did not feel sometime as though the pen and lines were etching, burning themselves into their heads?