Would you sent your child to school which allows corporal punishment?

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Many Christian schools allow it, and numerous U.S. public school also.
 
Yes, but with reservation. I would have to be very involved, which is to say I would have to be notified before the punishment was administered. My child would have to fully understand why they were being punished.
 
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Many Christian schools allow it, and numerous U.S. public school also.
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My grade school did this all the time. All of the parents had to sign permission slips. My mom was among the only ones who didn’t sign the slip at first, but she was pressured into signing when my brother stopped doing his homework. My brother said that if he didn’t tell them that it hurt or act like he was hurting, they would swat him again.

If I ever get married and have children, I will not send them to such a school.
 
Corporal punishment doesn’t work for everyone. My friends and i would have competitions in primary school to see who could get the cane the most. High school was no different. there were a few teachers you would try your best to avoid as they would leave welts that would bruise.
Some teachers would give us a choice between the cane and detention. The cane was chosen everytime. As the pain from the cane would only last a bit While the dentition would last a lot longer. a few teachers wised up and would give up on the cane and just give dentition. Then you had those who gave both.
 
I believe in limited corporal punishment when necessary in the home. I don’t believe in non-parents using corporal punishment so I would not.
 
Just make sure its fair. I was denied the corporeal punishment option (which was written in the student handbook as one of two of a students options for my offense) because I was female. I threw a fit and the just dropped the matter, but in my opinion, thats is very wrong.
 
Personally, no.

I am not entirely against corporal punishment if used sparingly and properly in some instances. But I don’t like the idea of it being outside of my control and my (name removed by moderator)ut. I want to know exactly what happened, when it happened, how it happened, what was leading to the instance… I don’t like the thought of an authority other than the parent making that kind of judgement call. But again, that’s just my personal opinion on it.
 
First, off, by the time a kid is in high school, they are old enough to be reasoned with and if they can not be reasoned with I would investigate 2 things

1-) what is going on in their home to make a teacher want to give corporal punishment, most probably they don’t live in a good house

2-) if reasoning doesn’t work, they are probably special needs and are in the wrong school

As for kids under 10, I do believe a slap on the had should be allowed. I have baby sat enough kids that knew their parents would not let me hit them, so they never had incentive to listen to me.

I babysat kids where I could slap their hand. They knew to listen or else the slap was coming. Those are the kids I never had to raise my voice at.

But I still would use it as a last resort. I do believe that it is less painful (emotionally) for the kid to go home and get the slap with the parents. I would involve the parents as much as possible and if the parents handled the problem at home, I don’t think it is necessary to hit a kid

But honestly, there are so many limitations on how one is legally allowed to discipline a kid, I have to wonder who would even want to be a teacher now a days

Angie
 
I don’t have kids, but if I did it would be no. I’m pretty sure it’s not allowed in Australia anyway.
 
Ophelia23 said:
Personally, no.

I am not entirely against corporal punishment if used sparingly and properly in some instances. But I don’t like the idea of it being outside of my control and my (name removed by moderator)ut. I want to know exactly what happened, when it happened, how it happened, what was leading to the instance… I don’t like the thought of an authority other than the parent making that kind of judgement call. But again, that’s just my personal opinion on it.
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Hmmm some good points there. I personally am convinced 100% AGAINST the idea, since there are multitude of other ways to punish/teach/rehabilitate children than to inflict biological pain, such as getting the child to a therapist (if he/she has emotional issues related to not being able to cope with work or with other people), or if a child is obstinately misbehaving, then you could get him to the principal’s office or have a teacher talk with him/her. Heck, even one extra homework in addition as punishment is much better than inflicting pain in my opinion. So I’m open to all kinds of things. But spanking/hitting/slapping= No way…
 
I’m not nessisaryily for it or against it, but if you make it an option and write it into the handbook, then it needs to applied fairly.

In my case, my parents were aware, and even met with the principle on the matter. The offense was excessive tardiness and the options were licks or saturday school. I was on the varsity track team and the Saturday schools interfered with my track meets. The principle said he didn’t feel comfortable administering the punishment. My head coach offered to administer them herself, and he said that wouldn’t be fair because there was no way to ensure the equality of the licks if they were administered by others. Stupid really. This was a public high school.
 
I find it only justifiable if the parents don’t have nerve to do it themselves. Sometimes kids do need a bit of a beating to understand how to obey rules and don’t become a nightmare for teachers. It worked with me with simple threats of getting corporal punishment, but I’m pretty sure there are those who need a little bit more than that, as lond as they don’t get abused in the amount of punishments that they get.

I don’t want anyone to shoot my kid’s laptop or antything, not even myself, but there’s always that kid that really needs a bit of that… :rolleyes:
 
**Never. **

It was allowed in my grade school and it was never applied evenly. Girls rarely got it, and it was usually the boys who were a bit rough around the edges who did get it.

Those children who received the strap started to think of themselves as trouble makers. It became part of their identity. This happened to my brother and affected all of his future school life.

Besides, if we’re talking about Catholic schools, there is no place for it, especially with the Church’s not too distant history of abuse in schools. Nothing even remotely approaching abuse should be tolerated. Did Christ advocate this approach? What did He say about correcting others?
 
It is not so much what they allow as what they do and what the local parents do. I went to a school that “allowed corporal punishment”, but it was used so rarely that I wouldn’t keep a child out of that school for that reason.
 
If I couldn’t trust a teacher to be able to administer corporal punishment rarely, and justly, and not for their own anger outlet, then I could not really trust him or her to teach the kids at all. There are plenty of ways in which bad teachers harm kids much more greatly than corporal punishment ever could through humiliation, ostracism, failing to protect from bullies, etc. I’m much more concerned with rooting out bad teachers in this regard than ending appropriately applied corporal punishment.

The effectiveness of corporal punishment is in some cases because of the nearly instant negative result of a behavior. How many times does a kid touch a hot stove burner before he realizes it is not funny, or an ideal way to disobey a rule in order to show defiance?
 
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