Who should have the legal right to administer corporal punishment?

Question

(A) parents
(B) teachers
(C) parents and teachers
(D) neither parents nor teachers

Please explain why you believe as you do.

Answer 1

Only parents. Teachers open up them selves to lawsuits and assult charges.

Answer 2

I'd personally go with D, but then, my parent took a child psych degree and knew plenty of ways of reprimanding a child without physical reprimands. Then again, I know some people really wouldn't know how to discipline their child, or don't feel they can do it effectively, without physical punishment, so I can't wholly reject A.

Teachers, though, should never, ever be able to physically punish a child. When there is no love for a child, no caring or understanding of their home life, and not necessarily any understanding of the culture they come from, it's so much more likely a teacher will go overboard, or punish a child for behaviour that the child's parents think is acceptable - and it's not the job of a teacher to decide how children should act, it's their job to control them enough that the child learns. There's the potential to make a child hate school and learning if they associate it with physical reprimands. It's just too risky to give teachers that power, especially since teachers are minimally supervised, and are often in stressful, overcrowded classrooms nowadays.

Besides, the teacher is quite capable of telling the child's parents if the child acts up, and then it is the parents' job to discipline the child in any way they see fit.

Answer 3

I don't see a problem with parents spanking their children, as long as it doesn't actually harm them or occur often.

My parents spanked me once in a while when I was a child, but only when all else failed. Reasoning may work at times, but young kids aren't really known for their rationalism. Yelling and screaming may work, but it certainly loses its effect after a while. If a child refuses to listen, refuses to go willingly into a corner or to stop misbehaving, I say using light physical force is acceptable.

Answer 4

(C) Have you noticed the U.S. Spiraling out of control since we got rid of corporal punishment in the schools. I got whooped plenty of times from my mom, and it straightened me out. I know now that I earned each one of those whoppings. I think If the teachers could still do it the students would not be out of control in the class room. These non-spanked children are now having babies in high school and disrespecting their elders. The grownups that haven't had whoppings have out of control credit problems and are very materialistic. I say bring the whoppings back to school.

Answer 5

Neither. I believe that physical reprimation is wrong. I just love when I'm in the store and I see a mother pop her child while she says "Don't hit your brother!!". Wow, I wonder where the child learned to hit?

Even small children can reason. My parents use to take away my favorite doll when I was bad....I think that was worse than a spanking to me. Reason with your child and teach them that they make their own choices and with those choices come consequences. The consequences shouldn't be physical though, in my opinion. Physically making someone do something should be saved for horses and the like, not people.

Answer 6

I go with "C". I was spanked at school in 6th grade and that was the end of my misbehaving in school. By the way, I wasn't permanently hurt by it either.

Answer 7

C, because we had a much better, less "ADD" and "ADHD" filled society, when little Johnny knew his fanny was going to get smacked if he didn't straighten up and fly right in school.