Corporal Punishment
16.6% of children who are abused are abused physically (Americanhumane.org). Students should never get physically abused at school. School is an encouraged place for students to be safe. Corporal punishment is child abuse, and should never ever be accepted as a way to discipline children. Physical punishment shows children that violence is the answer. The human who is being abused by corporal punishment is simply just a child trying to learn.
School is often promoted positively as a safe place for children to go. School is a place for children to escape from a possible abusive home life. Parents have said their children while receiving corporal punishment have been pinned, face down to the ground (Businessinsider.com). Children should never get pinned down by an adult. Schools with corporal punishment are not safe and are even dangerous. Schools advocate anti-bullying programs, if the teachers physically punish children; what’s really the difference? A student with Dyslexia and ADHD had been beaten so badly he fell to the ground, needed an inhaler to be able to breathe, and was covered in bruises (Businessinsider.com). It should be a crime for everyone, especially adults to use corporal punishment on children with any type of disability. Some might say that students aren’t learning their lesson with…
Would you want your child to get abused as a way of a disciplinary consequence, by someone who is a stranger to you? Corporal punishment is showing kids from the start of schooling that if you have a problem you go to violence. Corporal punishment is never the solution to a misbehaving child. “Studies show that beatings can damage the trust between educator and student, corrode the educational environment, and leave the student unable to learn effectively, making it more likely that she will drop out of school,” the HRW/ACLU report cautions…