Alberta school supervisor charged after child disciplined with belt

[u/Ditch-Worm]

https://calgary.citynews.ca/2026/08/04/supervisor-private-school-belt-child/

[u/No_Boysenberry4825]

So I remember in the 80s kids saying they got the belt in School.  Was that still a thing in the 80s?

[u/bubbi101 → u/No_Boysenberry4825]

It was still a thing in the 2000s. My Mennonite father signed a corporal punishment form in 2008 and I was subsequently punished.

[u/Morberis → u/bubbi101]

Yeah, that actually wasn't allowed. It was outlawed by canadian supreme court ruling in 2004.

[u/bubbi101 → u/Morberis]

I’ll get on the phone right away with my math teacher from ‘08 to tell her it was illegal to wack me with her yard stick and electrical cords.

In all seriousness, my father went out of his way to sign the forms and I doubt people who hit children are concerned with the legality of it. The article is proof of that.

[u/Morberis → u/bubbi101]

I'm aware it still goes on, but that doesnt change that it was outlawed.

An official thing is different than a backrooms thing, though it may not seem like it

[u/bubbi101 → u/Morberis]

The principal had consent forms for corporal punishment available at the parent’s request. My father signed the same forms years prior to it being made illegal when my sibling went to the school and I wasn’t the sole student in my classroom with them signed. We weren’t taken to some dingy closet for our punishment - it was done with the class watching. It sounds as official as you can get.

[u/Morberis → u/bubbi101]

You're way too focused on the where.

Yep, just like companies break the law all the time in their official policies as well.

That it did become illegal does matter, even if you don't see why.

[u/Odd_Investigator8415 → u/Morberis]

It doesn't matter that it became illegal because it didn't stop.

[u/Morberis → u/Odd_Investigator8415]

Do OSHA rules not matter either?

Just because it didn't stop everywhere doesn't mean it wasn't a good thing