<P> Corporal punishment in all settings, including schools, was prohibited in Brazil in 2014 . According to an amendment to the Code on Children and Adolescents 1990, "Children and Adolescents are entitled to be educated and cared for without the use of physical punishment or cruel or degrading treatment as forms of correction, discipline, education or any other pretext". </P> <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>

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