Corporal Punishment In Public Schools

Some people believe educational staff and law enforcement are doing exactly what needs to be done to keep the school in order and everyone safe but doing so sets students up to fail their educational goals. The realm of harsh school discipline, suspensions, expulsions, school arrests, and corporal punishment are all practices used in school systems today. School is supposed to be a safe environment for students to learn and grow into intelligent and confident individuals that will advance in life as they grow. School is the building block of young minds so knowing what is going on and happening to students in a school setting is monumental for those young minds. The disciplinary actions that are in effect are harsh and traumatizing, corporal …show more content…
Corporal punishment is not just about the immediate impact on the child. When these children grow into adults they are still traumatized by the memory and the atmosphere that surrounds that punishment. Those experiences shape them in adulthood and help form a moral and ethical belief on how they approach decisions in life. Greydanus testified that physical discipline makes the school environment “unproductive, nullifying, and punitive,” and teaches children that “violence is acceptable, especially against the weak, the defenseless, and the subordinate” (Greydanus, qtd. in Anderson). This should not be an example of what children are learning in …show more content…
School is a place to educate children to become better individuals, if the school system uses this technique on them it only teaches them to ignore or get rid of the difficult tasks and reform into the picture everyone wants. Children should be guided and taught in a positive and safe environment from adults while attending classes. Education staff and law enforcement take these children out of class or expel them which in turn sets them up to fail their educational goals. Schools have set up, to have officers onsite, but they should be using those resources to educate their educators to handle difficult situations in their classrooms and not just push them off to the officer on duty. A class disruption does not always warrant a trip to the principal’s office or a suspension, if they take the time to know their students it makes it that much easier to defuse a situation when it arises. Communication and positive reinforcement with faculty and students makes a safer environment for