Essays on Corporal Punishment

‘Can the cane: corporal punishment has no place in our schools’ – Language Analysis The ongoing physical beating of children in several Australian Christian schools is causing ethical questioning and debate upon their hypocritical education system. On July 1st 2011, a letter to the editor...

School culture is based on many things, with student-teacher interaction being a major factor. Here in South Carolina, corporal punishment is outlawed. In the classrooms within this state, there is no violence factor when teachers are correcting students. The same does not go for the...

Corporal punishment: effective discipline or child abuse? Although the practice of corporal punishment in school dates back to the colonial period (Garrison 115), it is allowed and used in our country to this day. Nineteen of our nation’s states allow corporal punishment, or the use...

Corporal punishment should be banned in schools’ premises. Corporal punishment has been utilized in schools as a method for taking care of disciplinary issues. It alludes to class rules which enable understudies to be rebuffed utilizing physical torment without causing damage. It is believed that...

In this academic journal, Lian Tong (the corresponding author) who attended the School of Public Health at Fudan University in Shanghai, China effectively discusses the link between corporal punishment and developmental problems with children. It is documented that abusive discipline, family instability, lack of emotional...

“The Right not to be Hit, also a Children’s Right” The United Nations Committee on Rights of the Child has defined corporal or physical punishment as “any punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort, however...

Can we still learn while at the same time, suffer from pain? “Making learning ‘agreeable and pleasant’” an article written by Ambeth Ocampo, shows how corporal punishment made in school can be a terror for students. He also shares his experiences of getting maltreated from...

Every child goes though that phase where they want to be on top of the world. They think they can do what they want, when they want. But then comes the mighty parents, using discipline to ensure the problem child doesn’t do this heinous act...

“The right of corporal punishment is one that plagues this society” -Fyodor Dostoevsky. Corporal punishment is a method to inflict physical pain on a child in order to attempt to discipline them. The most common methods include spanking and paddling. Corporal punishment is a cruel...

The right no is hit, is also a child’s right. A child is an abridged adult with a right that cannot be abridged. ‘Spare the rod, spoil the child’, this phrase has been prevalent in our society since a very long time. It is majorly...

Introduction The evolution of corporal punishment within a school setting dates back to before 500 BC. Corporal punishment in its entirety cannot be traced back to its origin, but examples of corporal punishment in a school setting started to be documented in early Greece, which...

“A villain truly deserving of this horror of nature in its entirety, condemned to see no longer the heaven that he has outraged and to live no longer on the earth that he has sullied, above the punitive city hangs this iron spider; and the...

Is disciplining children with corporal punishment ethical? This topic has been going on for centuries and remains a widely argued and debated issue. Corporal punishment not only carries in-built danger of escalation, it impacts the child psychologically, infringes their right and causes irreversible damages to...

In Canada, there are a number of laws and policies in place to ensure the safety of all Canadians, especially those who are the most vulnerable in our society – children. In our society if a crime is witnessed, we are able to call or...

“Childhood should be carefree playing in the sun; not living a nightmare of the darkness” In a country like India, protection of children from abuse and exploitation is a mere exigency owing to the poor socio-economic conditions in a large population base. The provision of...

In Today’s modern era, the world is facing a biggest problem of child abuse in families by their parents or any of the family members. It is a mixture of physical, psychological and sexual torture. Children’s are molested on cultural issues, Lifestyle and many more...

Introduction Violence in schools whether towards educators or students is an ever-growing problem present in the country and ineffective disciplinary measures are to blame. When the consequence does not weigh up to the severity of the action, the student will not see the reality of...

“This is going to hurt me more than it will hurt you”. “Stop crying before I give you something to cry about” These are common phases used in young adult literature to portray people of color’s parenting skills. Why is it that authors depict people...

In our modern day as the different advancement of technology provide us with a better life and a better interaction within each other. Apparently, as people are more close together where they can reach each other in a nick of time. It leads to some...

In 2019, when we are in 30th year of adoption of CRC, securing and enforcement of child right has still not been possible. Hence, it is an urgent need to discuss and devise ways to achieve the goals that were intended to be achieved through...

As learners of today’s world, students all have the chance to experience learning at its finest but in some instances, different ways of teachings become a hindrance to the hope of the future. According to Ocampo (2017), in his article Making Learning ‘Agreeable and Pleasant’...