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I urge you to read up on childhood trauma before you dismiss me.

Trauma like having a bunch of idiots yammering away in class so that the rest of us can't get an education?

After some Googling on the term "Adverse Childhood Experiences", I found this list: Physical abuse, Sexual abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical neglect, Emotional neglect, Mother treated violently, Substance misuse within household, Household mental illness, Parental separation or divorce, Incarcerated household member.

Still can't find much about how humiliating it is to be punished for disrupting class, though.

It's right there in your list: Emotional Abuse.

And we're back to the beginning. If you agree with another reply to my original comment that the problem is the humiliation aspect of this and not the force-feeding of a dog biscuit, that is a disappointing and pathetic threshold for abuse. And explains a lot about our current political climate.

I recall a chemistry class where any student caught not wearing their safety goggles would have to sing "the goggles song" in front of the entire class.

  o/~
  Goggles.
  You love your goggles.
  They will keep.
  Your.
  Eyes.
  From.
  Burning up!
  
  So wear your goggles,
  Upon your eyeballs.
  If you don't,
  You.
  Must.
  Sing! (+repeat ad nauseam) -OR- Stay out!
  o/~

Sometimes the threat of humiliation works as intended.

That's a pretty low bar, and over-use of the term weakens it.

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