reasons against abolishing corporal punishment?

Question

arguments on why corporal punishment should not be stopped and actually encouraged

Answer 1

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Answer 2

As someone who went to schools in the 1970s which still used corporal punishment, I can see arguments on both sides.

On the anti-corporal punishment side, some teachers (a small minority I'm sure - I don't think there were any in my school) got sadistic/sexual pleasure out of using the cane or slipper. That to me is such a massive argument against that it more or less kills the debate. Also on the anti-side, some recipients of corporal punishment may have suffered some lasting psychological damage.

Having said all that, you may be wondering whether there can really be another side to the argument. In some respects I think the cane did work. When I was at school the teachers were very much in charge. I can't remember any teacher ever being sworn at by a pupil and I can't recall any real challenges to the authority of the teachers (and I did not go to a posh school with nice rich kids). I think the knowledge that any such dissent would have resulted in 3 strokes of the cane is probably the reason why. No pupil was ever suspended or expelled. We did not live in constant fear of the cane. It was only used for serious offences and in my day I think most pupils went through school without ever receiving it.

My own experience. I only once received corporal punishment shortly after joining primary school when I would have been 4 or 5. I scribbled on the paper in the art lesson rather than drew whatever I was supposed to be drawing. I was not deliberately being naughty, I did not understand what I was supposed to be doing. The teacher smacked my bottom in front of the class and made me cry. Did I deserve it ? No. Did it do me good ? Possibly, because I learned the consequences of misbehaviour and never received corporal punishment again.

I came very close to getting the cane when a teenager in secondary school. I never did anything that bad, but was very immature and sought attention. I was threatened with the cane several times and I came very close to getting it. Looking back I think 3 whacks of the cane on my back side would probably have done me good and would certainly have stopped the bad behaviour.

Answer 3

Reasons Against Corporal Punishment

Answer 4

I am all in favor of abolishing corporal punishment, especially in schools. Studies have actually shown that many people who were subjected to corporal punishment as children later developed back problems as adults. Also, teachers and principals sometimes go overboard, and there are pictures of students with welts and bruises on their buttocks that have resulted from corporal punishment.

Answer 5

I'm all for keeping the option of corporal punishment in schools. Dr. Spock ruined society with his anti-spanking rhetoric. I can attest to the fact that a few whacks of a ruler issued by a nun kept me in line, not only in school but outside the classroom as well.

Answer 6

Sure beats sending kids to juvenile detention, anger management counsellors, giving them ritalin, or letting them disrupt school.

For young criminals just getting started, nothing like a public caning or whipping to adjust their attitude.

The fact that the government is so intrusive as to criminalize corrective discipline inside one's family has had a remarkably negative effect on children in the US.

But I'm sure the do-gooders know better than we do - after all, corporal punishment had only worked well for millenia.

Answer 7

Learn the lesson while you're young so you don't clog up the legal system later. Guess what? "Rehabilitation" programs don't work!