Ingraham v. Wright 1970-1971

In 1970, all over the state of Florida, corporal punishment in public schools florished like sunflowers. If you don't know what corpral punishment is, it's when a teacher is allowed to beat a child if they act up in class. This struck a chord with me because these kids had major injuries if beaten. These kinds of punishments are cruel and don't help showing discipline. What's worse is that kids will probably be scared to give there opinions which is very important. Finally, 2 kids took this matter to the supreme court. Sadly, the votes for the case was 5 corporal punishment to 4 for the kids. The court said they were protecting the 8th ammendment, which states that they should not use cruel or unusual punishment. Later, Byron White said that the 8th ammendment wasn't just for criminals, it protected everyone. And with that, corporal punishment was no more!