Have you had corpral punishment used on you in a school? Tell your story...?

Question

Do you think they should still use it?

Answer 1

In 3rd grade, I fainted during a rehearsal for a Christmas pagent while we were singing "Away in a Manger". I fell over the boy in front of me and part of the set fell down. The teacher spanked me. Never asked are you ok? Why did you fall? I had fainted for goodness sake! I didn't argue, accepted the spanking and admonishment, and I'm still mad about it 40 years later.

Corporal punishment has NO place in the school. If the school can't handle kids without whacking them, they should take up another line of education...maybe teaching adults (unless they'd spank them too...)

Answer 2

No, they stopped using it a couple of years before I was born in public school, I know and knew some private schools nearby that use or have used it.

However that doesn't mean they didn't punish us, especially in the lower grades. Kids were usually put into time out (in a special desk, chair, or in the hallway; names on the boards, sent to principal office, detention, ISS, and OSS. (suspension), etc.

When I was like in kindergarten and first grade I did see some kids and even occasionally me who were forced into chairs physically, grabbed and pulled by the arm, and even slapped on the hand. That was probably illegal but kids aren't very likely to report such incidences or aren't believed when they do.


And as far as punishments in school, no spanking or hitting, detention and ISS more so than OSS or Expulsion (sometimes I think kids do wrong just so they could go home)

And I think they need to really enforce from a young age to sit down and be quiet and not be so loud and rambacious when it's inappropriate to be.

Answer 3

I have had it used illegally on me. I was in preschool, 2 years old. The teacher should NOT have been allowed to instruct children that age, because she did not understand that we did not have the manners of a much older child. If we refused to share, she would grab us by our baby arms hard enough to give us fingerprint bruises all over our arms, and physically drag us to time out. There were never spankings, but I think spankings would have been far less painful and dangerous.

I do think we need stricter punishments in the schools, but I do not think that corporal punishment is the answer. People have so damn many anger management issues these days, I wouldn't trust anyone to hit my kids without actually causing damage. Suspension doesn't work--the kids are wanting out of school anyway. In school suspension and detentions, refusal to allow people to participate in activities, and getting parents involved needs to happen more often.

Answer 4

No no no... I think that, that is also humiliating and it is not the teachers' and/or bus drivers' place to give them any punishment. If they want the child's bad behavior to be noticed and the child to get something for it, then they should leave it up to the principle. Reguardless if you got it when you were younger, it isnt up to you. Would you rather hear about what your child did from the principle and then punish them, the way that they are used to. It is bad for their development also, mentally. Or would you rather, not hear about it and have your child beaten by some stranger... I beleive we both know the answer to that one.

Plus it is child abuse no matter how you look at it anymore... Someone, somewhere is/will going to or end up saying something, like maybe calling the police. I don't know...

That is what I think and I would never do that to my child. It is wrong, especially since today, nobody uses it anymore so it is unexceptable to begin doing it now. It is something that you have to grow up with, not just be forced upon.

Answer 5

I have never been hit while in school, I had decent and caring teachers who never abused their students, if I done something wrong that someone thinks I should get hit for they sent me to the office or they gave me a talk after class.

My grandfather had been hit before by a teacher and he told me one day that the teacher was coming down with a ruler on his hands for the THIRD time so fast that he took his hands away and she ended up smaking herself in the leg with the ruler and it made her bleed. That is unacceptable that people think they should be aloud to do that to another human, one of the most innocent out there-our children. Imagine if she had actually hit his hand? She obviously had no control over her own anger and those people still exhist today and will gladly do it to your child aswell.

smaking a person do not teach them anything but fear, agression and hate. It has no place int he home or the schools. Do it really take that much time out of a teachers day to tell a student to go stand out by the door or to stand in the cornerfor a minute? My teachers always gave you a minute or your age and after the class was over (or recess or lunch in younger grades) they would have us stay behind to help clean up and to have a chat about our behaviour. We got three warnings if it wasn't something serious before they contacted our parents. I impliment the same form of discipline with my son, he gets two minutes in time out then we have a chat, I do it with the three other toddlers I care for aswell. Usually it only takes three time outs to set them straight and they don't do the bad behaviour anymore. If toddlers can learn with love, care and a simple chat afterwards why can't an older child? Simple, they can, some have parents and teachers who are just to lazy to do their job properly.

NO child should be punished by an angry adult, especially if it is corporal punishment being used. Adults are human too and their emotions get in the way or rationality, is what the child done REALLY that bad that you have to smack their hands or bum that hard or that often? Are the children truly sorry or do they truly understand what they done wrong after getting smacked? I don't think so.

Answer 6

it was standard practice at my schools growing up, but they called the parents first (i believe). there are many parents who don't appreciate someone else punishing their child that way, so i can understand that and they should be given the option of taking over the punishment at home (after detention or whatever the school deems appropriate). however, if i had gotten into trouble at school and they called my parents, they would tell the principal to spank me and tell me to expect another one when i got home. not that my parents were abusive in any way - quite the opposite actually - but they wanted the point driven home - Don't misbehave. when used correctly, i believe spanking can be beneficial. but as i remember, they used a wooden paddle. that doesn't really seem appropriate or necessary.

Answer 7

Yes and YES!!

I'm a teacher, and when I was going to school, there was a LOT less talking back to the teachers and parents and the administration formed a untied front in educating a child and keeping a child in line! And in my dad's day in the South, the prinipal would whoop the kids with belts, then call their parents. Then they got a whoopin at home!!

Nowadays, we're a bunch of wusses!! We now want to SUE the school district if anyone DARES lay a hand on someone's child! Now, the parent quickly takes the child's side, saying "Little Johnny would NEVER do that!" Like a teacher has any interests on LYING about someone's kid!! Furiates me to no end. Nowadays, I've seen teachers get CUSSED OUT and getting smarted off by STUDENTS!!

Needless to say, we've lost our way as a country, as far as disciplining our children. I think because we're so far gone and all people care about is trying to get rich, we're NEVER getting that back!

I swear to you, I wish I can track down my elementary school principal who paddled me... so that I can shake his hand and thank him for helping to shape the man I am today.

REINSTATE CORPORAL PUNISHMENT!!

Answer 8

I went to school when it was officially illegal to hit kids. That memo didn't make it to all of my teachers or the principal in my elementary. The ping pong paddle probably still haunts the naughty kids who were in my classes. From what I remember though, they were ill-behaved, and their parents were uninvolved with raising them. Their siblings were usually trouble makers too.
I think it is acceptable to include corporal punishment in elementary as an option. For example, call the parent and say your child is unruly and our warnings have gone unheeded. Come collect your child and teach him/her how to be respectful or we will do your job for you. Then, all the parents who believe no one should touch their little angel can pick him or her up and spend their day babysitting. (or perhaps clarify to the child what is acceptable behavior in public settings) The rest of the kids in class can get back to learning and will think twice before misbehaving.

Answer 9

When I attended grade school, before all the changes that have destroyed discipline in schools, there was two things hanging at the front of the classroom. The ten commandments and a paddle. Break any of the commandments and the paddle was applied to the backside of the offender in front of the entire class. My siblings and I knew that if we got into trouble at school we would be in even worse trouble when we got home. We generally had a very well behaved classroom of students.

Answer 10

Personally I dare some strange teacher to lay a hand on my child. Im not violent by any means but that would probably put me over the edge. It is wrong for any adult other than the parent or close family member to disipline a child with violence or spanking or whatever you want to call it. Hard to teach kids to keep their hands to themselves when teachers out there are spanking them. So no I do not believe that they should physically touch a child.