<P> Caning is commonly used by teachers as a punishment in schools . The cane is applied on the students' buttocks, calves or palms of the hands in front of the class . Tramline cane marks could be left . Sit - ups with ears pulled and arms crossed, kneeling, and standing on the bench in the classroom are other forms of corporal punishments used in schools . Common reasons for punishment include talking in class, not finishing homework, mistakes made with classwork, fighting and truancy . </P> <P> In Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law v. Canada (2004) the Supreme Court outlawed school corporal punishment . In public schools, the usual implement was a rubber / canvas strap applied to the hands, while private schools often used a paddle or cane administered to the student's posterior . In many parts of Canada,' the strap' had not been used in public schools since the 1970s or even earlier: thus, it has been claimed that it had not been used in Quebec since the 1960s, and in Toronto it was banned in 1971 . However, some schools in Alberta had been using the strap up until the ban in 2004 . </P> <P> In 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada outlawed corporal punishment in all schools, public or private . The practice itself had largely been abandoned in the 1970s when parents placed greater scrutiny on the treatment of children at school . The subject received extensive media coverage, and corporal punishment became obsolete as the practice was widely seen as degrading and inhumane . Despite the fact that the tradition had been forgone for nearly 30 years, legislation banning the practice entirely by law was not implemented until 2004 . </P> <P> Some Canadian provinces banned corporal punishment in public schools prior to the national ban in 2004 . They are, in chronological order by year of provincial ban: </P>

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