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Professor Marshall

English 1302 (T-Th 11:30am-1:00pm)

October 10, 2014

Corporal Punishment in School

Corporal punishment is one of the very controversial topics being discussed among

educators nationwide because of the very serious influence on the development of the younger

generation in the future. Besides, this is also very important to the development of a national.

According to the Wikipedia, Corporal punishment is a form of physical punishment that

involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of

disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behavior deemed unacceptable.

In this case, corporal punishment refers to in schools. In the article Corporal Punishment Is

Ineffective and Abusive by Melanie Barwick, the author points out some negative aspects of the

corporal punishment at home but fail to consider this problem in school. Therefore, we have to

analyze more clearly about this problem, especially in school to find out the causes and the

solutions.

Nowadays, students will immediately associate pain with what they would consider

abuse. Thats why there are many students feel scared when they study in school. This makes

them like studying at home more than studying with friends at school. Other students become

heady and they do not want to obey to adult, especially their teacher or parents. This is

particularly worrisome because they may become criminals in the future if they are not being


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taught the right way. However, not all the penalties of teachers want to make students in pain

or feel hurt. There is a quote in the article Corporal Punishment Is Ineffective and Abusive,

Corporal punishment is the use of physical force with the intent of causing a child to

experience pain but not injury for the purposes of correction or control of the child's behavior.

Almost teachers love their students, even though take care students like their kids. On the

other hands, some teachers abuse the using of corporal punishment for many different

reasons; that is making this problem become more severe. In June last year, the workers

newspapers published a news, there was a teacher for feeling so frustrating about many things

of her family, then wreaking on a young girl by slapping her in the face when the teacher

discovered the girl was talking to friends during school hours. That made the girl tinnitus for a

long time and be afraid to go to school.

One of the reasons that teachers often use corporal punishment to students that is pain

has immediately results. When referring to school environment, everyone will think that is

where the student can learn, cultivate knowledge, morality and ideology between teachers and

students. Besides, that is also the healthy and environment, etc. However, in fact, it is not

entirely like that. Recently, in some schools, the corporal punishment is happening in complex

and diverse. Although in the United States there are still 19 states that have legalized physical

punishment, some of the state is which it is illegal in public schools systems allow the practices

in the private schools due to the fact that they make their own rules and enforce them. Many

people think that it is wrong when teacher spank their student, and they consider that is abuse.

On the other hands, there are many people think that applying corporal punishment is a good

way to help students avoid bad habits. In the article Corporal Punishment Is Ineffective and


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Abusive by Melanie Barwick, there is a quote The line between acceptable corporal

punishment and dangerous physical abuse is usually drawn in the sand on a blustery day; there

are no guidelines Yes, I think it is true because you have to draw the line between abuse and

what is punishing your students but spanking students is not entirely abuse. Many schools

sometimes use corporal punishment because it has immediate results. Adults have

expectations for us and they feel that when a child did wrong physical punishment gave them

reasoning and would teach them what not to do. (Krow, Shailynn) When students do

something wrong and then they get the physical punishment for it from their teachers, they will

quit because nobody wants to do the same actions that just caused them pain. Because of the

nature of corporal punishment, most students who receive it will not do it again, afraid for

further punishment. However, the main issue that people are concerned is sometime many

teachers make the punishment unfair; They punish this race, or this sex more than the others,

or this student is cuter than other students, which is wrong because everyone has the same

opportunity and the same rules. Another thing is the older or stronger students will feel

inhibited if they get more punishment than the others, so they may become cruel and like to

bully other students. It is very dangerous if we let this thing happen because bullying is one of

the top reasons causing increased crime rate of a country. There is an unfortunate case

happened when I was in high school. This harrowing incident derived from applying the

corporal punishment of the P.E teacher to a group of boys as they joke around during school

hours. However, instead of punishing fairly for all students, the P.E teacher asked a boy who is

tallest to push up more than the others. That thing made the student be inhibited and then,

after the class ended, that student beat another student. Unluckily, that action of the tall


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student accidentally made his friend bang head into the ground, and he died. After that, the

teacher felt regret about his action I just wanted to punish them because I thought that this

would be a good way to force them to obey immediately. I feel very sorry for this decision. The

teacher said.

Although the school does not have a responsibility to nurture and equip life skills and

behavior for teachers, teachers have the responsibility to equip knowledge and skills for

themselves. In ethical perspective, teachers must not only love, but also strict with students

and with themselves. Teachers need to know that in the growing age, children and students

cannot afford to completely aware of their actions are right or wrong. In the article The

Advantages of Corporal Punishment in Schools | EHow by Krow, Shailynn, there is a quote The

child acts out in classrooms and exhibits bad behavior because he does not know any better or

he doesn't understand that there are consequences to certain actions. There fore, the

phenomenon of violence, especially violence against children in schools is not acceptable

whether in any form.

Children are the future of the country, that's why teachers need to pay attention and

care for them. Instead of applying corporal punishment, teachers should just talk to them to

figure out what to do right or wrong. Maybe they will not hear you in the first time, but

students will slowly realize that they themselves are wrong and then they will amend their

personality or their actions.


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Work Cited

Barwick, Melanie. "Corporal Punishment Is Ineffective and Abusive." Parenting. Opposing

Viewpoints. Web. 07 October. 2014.

Krow, Shailynn. "The Advantages of Corporal Punishment in Schools | EHow." EHow. Demand

Media, 03 Apr. 2011. Web. 07 October. 2014

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