The Supreme Court upheld corporal punishment as necessary for the proper education of a child and for the maintenance of group discipline, and not an Eighth Amendment issue, in:

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Ingraham v. Wright was a landmark Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of corporal punishment in public schools. The Court held that such punishment was necessary for the proper education of a child and for the maintenance of group discipline, and did not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

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