Should Corporal Punishment Be Allowed In The United States?

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Corporal Punishment

Corporal punishment is punishment intended to cause physical pain on a person. I was the principal at an elementary school and the students were so bad, like over a 100 kids, out of 200, a day, would get sent to my office for bad behavior. I was always livid at how many kids got in trouble. so, after a few months, I started to enforce corporal punishment. The school’s bad behavior kids went down to 5-10 kids a day, within a few months. I was happy and yet sad at the same time because that was what it took for the kids to act right. I strongly believe that corporal punishment should be allowed in the United States. I think this because if schools’ kids are bad then corporal punishment can turn the school around, also it
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If corporal punishment was enforced in all schools then it would teach the kids not to act up. “According to school statistics, referrals to the principal’s office have dropped 80% since 2006. So far this school year there’s been fewer than 50. “I’ve had parents say ‘thank you for doing this’,” says fifth-grade teacher Devada Kimsey. “And look at the behavior charts now - there’s nothing on them.” One school has even earned three statewide palmetto awards, one for academic performance and two for overall improvement.
Another reason that i believe that corporal punishment should be allowed in the United States is because it it quick and effective. “ ‘When you talk to local school officials, they point to the fact that it is quick and effective - - and that’s true,’ Farmer said. ‘It doesn’t take much time to administer corporal punishment, and you don’t have to hire someone to run a detention or an after-school program.” If corporal punishment was enforced all over the U.S. then it should only be at elementary schools and not at middle and high
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because if the parents do not want their kids to get corporal punishment, or they will do it theirself, then they can opt their kids out of the punishment and are called before it is administered.” Most people might try to argue that it violates rights. “In the 1977 case Ingraham v. Wright, students argued that Florida’s corporal punishment policy violated their rights under the Eighth Amendment, which bars cruel and unusual punishment, and their 14th Amendment rights to “procedural due process.” The high court upheld Florida’s policy, reasoning that the student was provided ample due process, and found the Eighth Amendment inapplicable, since it was intended to protect convicted

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