Should Corporal Punishment be allowed in School?

Answer 1

Yes. and in some extreme cases capital punishment.

Answer 2

yes! In some school districts in my area it is still the policy. At the beginning of the year parents have to sign a permission slip and the principal is the only one who can deliver the punishment. However, if the parents don't sign then they have to come and pick up their kids from school every time they get sent to the office, so either way it works as a good deterrent to both kids and parents of children who misbehave. As a teacher I've found that disruptive students take away from the learning time of all the students in the class not just themselves. I've had some serious troublemakers in my class and some see getting a detention or in school punishment as a way to get out of class not as a punishment. Something more has to be done.

Answer 3

Only if the person is in military school. And even there, becoming a corporal is a promotion, so it's not really a punishment, unless the person doesn't like being in charge.

Answer 4

In my opinion, yes. The question is; when should it be used, what circumstances define the use, i.e., does the punishment fit the crime?,is parents' consent always necessary? As a father of four, I have found that when corporal punishment is necessary, it must be understood by the child to be a last resort as a solution.
With discretion , a big YES.

Answer 5

No. I'm from the days when it was allowed and I got beat up by teachers more than once for no good reason. I once got three whacks with a wooden paddle for carrying my books on my head "Like a Zulu" in the words of the teacher who grabbed me, dragged me into a vacant classrooom and whomped the daylights out of me. That was probably 45 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. My third grade teacher liked to sneak up behind kids and shake their teeth out.

Don't get me wrong, kids need a good smack occasionally but that's a parent's job, not some random stranger having a bad day.

Answer 6

Yeah I think so. I the child has been warned several times then they should get a swat. I think that parents have gotten to lax on kids and they get away with a lot more than we did when we were kids. I know that my parents believed in Spare the rod spoil the child. I got a couple of swats when I was in school. And I'm a firm believer in Spare the rod Spoil the child.

Answer 7

Definitely. I was always promised that if I ever got swats at school, I would get twice as many when I got home. Parents who complain if their child is disciplined at school, are not helping their child one bit. The worst acting kids at school were always the ones whose parents wouldn't allow them to be punished. They came to school with the attitude that they had carte blanche to do anything they wished.

Answer 8

Oh yea these kids get away with too much these day's and if we don't discipline them, than they will start graduating from Conner to Conner with a 40 oz in one hand and weed in the other and never finish school.

Answer 9

YES YES YES !!

Think about it- how were schools and kids back in the days when this was allowed??
A heck of a lot better than the kids are now!
The LAW forbids children to be punished, and then the WORLD wonders why kids are so bad.
DUH !!!!

Answer 10

Yes! Somebody needs to beat the little bastards and make them behave. Most of their parents sure aren't. I went to private school (non-religious) and they whupped the crap out of us. Matter of fact, the U.S. should institute that caning law like they have over in Indonesia (?) for criminals. We've got more crime over here than in most 3rd world countries because there's no accountability. Beat 'em like they owe you money!!!