Corporal Punishment‘s Reintroduction Into Schools

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Corporal Punishment‘s reintroduction into schools The author believes corporal punishment should continue to be banned from use within secondary schools, and wish to defend this motion from a growing tide of support for its reintroduction. I will present three short arguments that will aim to denounce it practice as nothing more than an ineffective and backward method of discipline with severely harmful mental and physical repercussions. Firstly the author takes corporal punishment to be the use of physical force as a method of discipline or retribution for bad behavior. My first argument is that The Corporal punishment (C.P.) is a bold impression within a teaching environment that violence is acceptable by adults on children, which is dangerous message to send children. With 15% of marriages believed to be abusive, children are becoming surrounded with violence and will become more violent themselves, which will only lead to future complications academically and socially. It also detracts from the learning experience of the child and all those who witness it, and children’s motivation for moral actions will no longer depend on a will to be good but rather a fear of being punished which will be challenged at every stage and hider academic progress. It is also a very blatant form of bullying which is a practice all school should be trying to stop. Secondly C.P. a very backwards method of discipline and will cause deep motional and physical scars to the children who are punished in this way. Thus this old method of teaching is no longer needed, modern teachers should be caring, quite simply C.P. avoids the fundamental element of correction. By going back on the current ban we will just be reintroducing a practice that has been previously proven hugely damaging to the mental and physical growth of a child’s character. My last point is probably the
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