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“Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child”

  • Date Submitted: 09/13/2011 03:04 PM
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“The more spanking, the slower the development of the child’s mental ability." But even small amounts of spanking made a difference.” Hitting a child is slowing down ability to learn so why hit children at school when they are suppose to be in a learning environment.   Corporal punishment is a kind of physical punishment that involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence, or fax the purpose of discipline or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behavior deemed unacceptable. Corporal punishment should not be allowed to be in schools or have a choice to be used in school. A school using this form of punishment towards misbehaving students is damaging young student’s minds and that the color of a student’s race depicts how much they will be paddled. Corporal punishment could or could not improve order in schools or test scores. But is the abuse worth it? Using this sort of violence is only causing students to commit suicide and become humiliated in front of their peers.
Corporal punishment should not be allowed to be in school or have a choice to be used in schools. School’s using this form of punishment towards misbehaving students is damaging young student’s minds and that the color if a student’s race depicts how much they will be paddled. In the year 2008 a quarter million school children received paddling’s, swats, and licks. Mostly African Americans, Indian Americans and children with disabilities. In many states African American students are more likely to get spanked twice as much then other students. Even in schools populated with majority minorities Native Americans are likely to get paddled twice as much (Quaid). Schools that are likely to use physical violence to punish their students are abusing the children that are different races and that have special disabilities. This is meaning that just by the color of your more prone to receive twice as many paddling’s. Using corporal punishment towards younger students is...

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