Corporal Punishment in Schools Essay

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    Luz Medina English 81010 Professor Pierson November 13, 2016 Corporal Punishment: Yay or Nay? For years, physical discipline, from light spankings to brutal beatings, was seen as commonplace in households to get a child to learn a lesson. It was never seen as a cruel and tough form of punishment but as a necessity to get a point across. Now, in today’s society, this punishment crosses a line to a dangerous and serious form of child abuse. Parents go to long lengths to justify the excessive…

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    variables. These variables include age, gender, severity of punishment, ethnicity, family income, parental age, and size of family. The assessment of these variables are analyzed via three Attributional Style tests that assess how each independent variable interacts with the dependent variable, which is expressed by how a child responds to punishment and/or abuse, while the independent variable focuses on severity of punishment, if any punishment at all. The main goal of this study is to better…

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    RUNNING HEAD: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON CHILDREN Corporal Punishment and Its Effects on Children George Harbieh 20/8/2015 Outline Thesis statement: Anti-Social behaviors, health issues and psychological problems are three negative effects of the usage of corporal punishments in schools. I. One of the side effects brought by corporal punishment is the strong tendencies of kids to cause anti social behaviors. A. Bulling other classmates. B. Violating humans rights. C.…

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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…

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    teacher enforce corporal punishment, and the right of a student being denied education because he or she did not want to receive corporal punishment. The claims began from two different schools in Scotland. The Campbell family had their young son enrolled in the St Mathews Roman Catholic Primary School located in Bishopbriggs. The school policy was that corporal punishment would be allowed and used as a adequate disciplinary action if so needed.…

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    McWhirt Professor Traw English Comp 1 2 November 2017 Facing the Issues: Corporal Punishment Adrian Peterson, a member of the NFL, was charged for being physically abusive to his young child (Dyson 1). Peterson acted out on this harsh discipline regimen by whipping his young toddler son with a sharp tree branch which caused bruises and blisters. Sadly, more than two-thirds of families in the USA agree on corporal punishment (Dyson 1). Back in the days of slavery, beatings were a habitual form…

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    Did you know that corporal punishment is still being used in America.to be exact it is used frequently in schools in thirteen states, it is legal in twenty one states(Source C). Corporal punishment is where a student is physically disciplined for their bad doings.I believe that students should get paddled and that we should keep physical discipline.it will improve student behavior, it will influence on the school’s atmosphere by making it a calm place, and corporal punishment is an alternative…

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    view corporal punishment as the ultimate and most efficient form of punishment. People have thought for a long time that flogging a child mercilessly would dissuade them from any action that would result to them being beaten. The famous phrase spare the rod and spoil the child which a lot of Nigerians use to defend their decision to embrace corporal punishment was culled from the original bible verse which states, “Whoever…

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