Corporal Punishment in Schools Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence‚ or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer‚ or to deter attitudes or behaviour deemed unacceptable (Miller‚ Vandome‚ & McBrewster‚ 2009). Corporal punishment can be divided into three categories‚ these include: judicial‚ domestic and school. For the purpose of this essay we will be focusing on school corporal punishment‚ the advantages and guidelines to follow
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Corporal Punishment as an Act of Dicipline Every now and then we hear about cases where school children are hit by their teachers even over minor mistakes‚ and even recently we heard about a case where a ten year old boy was beaten by his teacher in Singapore (Corpun‚ 2000). This caused a widely publicized case in the local and even some international media. It has been debated and argued by many parties as corporal punishment and is now viewed as something which does not have any valid justification
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Corporal punishment Corporal punishment is defined as violence inflicted on children by parents‚ teachers‚ and others in the name of discipline and it is experienced by a large majority of children in many states worldwide. Some children‚ including children with disabilities and young children‚ are particularly likely to experience it. Corporal punishment is harmful to children and could lead to emotional and physical issues. Educationally‚ corporal punishment has been defined as the infliction
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EN 102 April 21‚ 2012. Lack of Corporal Punishment Ever seen a young child yelling or saying inappropriate things to a parent‚ and all the parent could do was to tell the child to stop speaking that way? It is a sad reality to see a child disobeying or talking back to his or her parents while being corrected for his or her misconduct. Where has the respect gone? Many parents and researchers are puzzled on why the issue of child misbehavior is getting worse year after year‚ and what
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Education has improved vastly over the last few years. With the ever-growing industry of technology‚ corporal punishment being taken away‚ and increasing opportunities for more people‚ it is hard not to see the positive changes. With the growth of education‚ there has been a growth in opportunity as well. There are now more opportunities for more people of different ages. The average age of college students has been slowly evolving. Many people are choosing to go back to school to receive a higher
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non-physical forms of discipline are more ethical and effective. Thesis Statement: Use of corporal punishment as child discipline is both unethical and ineffective. “When I was about 20 years old‚ I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child‚ she didn’t believe in striking children‚ although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day when her son was four or five‚ he did something that she felt warranted
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Corporal punishment in schools?? Advocates of school corporal punishment argue that it provides an immediate response to indiscipline and that the student is quickly back in the classroom learning‚ rather than being suspended from school. Opponents believe that other disciplinary methods are equally or more effective. Some regard it as tantamount to violence or abuse. In the United States and the United Kingdom‚ and generally in the English-speaking world‚ the use by schools of corporal punishment
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Capital punishment is the death penalty given by the government of a country‚ to people who have committed hideous crimes like homicide‚ rape and so on. Death penalty has been a way of punishing people since ages. Although there are some countries that have abolished death penalty from their law‚ there are still many which still practise the act of killing a person for crime. Death penalty is prevalent in the US‚ Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Some of the ways of executing criminals are hanging
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Purpose: To persuade the audience to be for corporal punishment in Desoto county schools. Attention-Getter: Good morning. How is everyone doing today? If you were caught in a wildfire would you think to start a smaller more controlled fire in a line or circular pattern to deplete the fuel source of the oncoming blaze? In this case the term fighting fire with fire is being used literally but there are other cases where this phrase isn’t so literal. Some vaccinations use the same virus that caused
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Parental Corporal Punishment In different households across the nation many parents spank‚ whip‚ swat‚ or paddle children in order to punish them for doing wrong or to act as a buffer against unacceptable behavior. These types of actions are acts of corporal punishment. Researchers Abraham Andero and Allen Stewart of Alabama State University define corporal punishment as “a discipline method in which a supervising adult deliberately inflicts pain upon a child in response to a child’s unacceptable
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