Corporal punishment Assignment

Running head: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD NOT BE USED IN SCHOOLS
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD NOT BE USED IN SCHOOLS
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1CORPORAL PUNISHMENT SHOULD NOT BE USED IN SCHOOLS
Corporal punishment has been used over years at home, in school as the means of
influence meant in the behavioral change among the children. At homes, parents use this
corporal punishment for rectifying their children when they notice their children are becoming
arrogant, or are not listening to them and whenever their children are involved in the naughty
activities. At schools, the teacher uses this type of punishment to influence the behavioral
change among the students and also for influencing them to work hard for their academics.
However, evidence from year’s show that the corporal punishment is the form of the violence
and rather influencing the positive changes this even leads to rebellion both at school and
home. This study discusses the violent effects of Corporal punishment in schools. Corporal
punishment should not be used in the schools because it increases aggression in children, it
leads to direct physical harm, and it increases the risk of use of other forms of violence.
In accordance with the Elgar (2018), this can be stated that, the corporal punishment is
used by the teacher for deterring the bad behavior of the student but instead, it increases the
aggression in children. The mental anguish can last for lifetime mostly for the vulnerable
students and can lead to mental problems for a lifetime. This punishment rather demonstrates
the altering effects in the behavior of the students that are actually trauma coming to the
surface. Trauma can lead to chronic low confidence and low self-esteem among children
(Elgar et al., 2018).
Gershoff (2016) argumentative study shows that This type of punishment leads to
physical harm that is the use of physical forces like spanking and whipping. Corporal
punishment most of the time causes injuries and trauma for the children. Many times, this is
found out that various acts of corporal punishment leave visible marks and bruises (Gershoff
& Font, 2016). This is to be noted that any method of rectification, which is used to inflict pain