Should Parents Be Allowed To Use Corporal Punishment to Correct Their Children?

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Corporal Punishment

Jonathan Wang

Should Parents Be Allowed To Use Corporal Punishment to Correct Their Children? My answer is yes. But should the government allow the teachers in school to be allowed to use corporal punishment? My answer will be yes and no.

Corporal punishment is dismissed by many parents to be cruel. In some cases this could be true but on the whole I would probably agree with the statement. It was abolished in the early 60´s in most of Britain but carried on in some schools until 1965. According to the research and surveys from the elders, children are becoming worse behaved then before. I also agree with the surveys, because if you look at the amount of child offenders you will see that they have steadily increased throughout the decades. If people are punished just by telling them what they did bad then they will do it again knowing that they would not be dealt with any physical or severely punished. Another issue is the government also has asked the school to expel less people from schools, which will also encourage students to break the school rules, which will increase the rate of juveniles.

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Most of the people also say that the teachers may abuse the advantage of the system though by using it on students, who have done nothing wrong, and get beaten for no reason or before they even think about or do something wrong. However students will also have a lot more respect for teachers so that they will also get more things done in class. For example, if a student is talking and disturbing kids that are do work, the teacher will get out the cane and the students will stop talking and start doing their work. This also ...

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