Reply To: Western sensibilities and Halacha

Certainly it was allowed to hit a kid in goyish schools

Have you ever heard of the “Whipping Boy”? It comes from the time when the King was just a child. Normally in the olden days when I child got something wrong in school, He got hit, However you were not allowed to touch the king, so a subsiite child was brought in to get hit instead of the King. So if the boy king got an answer wrong, His “Whipping Boy” got spanked