Should corporal punishments be banned in school?
By Naxous
@Naxous (973)
India
June 15, 2010 1:24am CST
Recently there is a huge uproar in our city regarding the act of a particular school.One student of Class VIII committed suicide after being roughed up by several teachers and the principal.Also in that same school another teacher was reprimanded as he asked for a laptop from a student and when the student failed to comply to his demand he failed him twice and the school authorities handed him the Transfer certificate.Corporal punishment has been banned in our state since 2004 and yet it is shocking to hear that the teachers of one of the most reputed schools resorts to corporal punishment to discipline the students.Several probes has started against the school and there are striking findings.One finding reveals that Corporal punishment is the normal method adopted in the school to discipline students.What are your thoughts?
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@redhotpogo (4401)
• United States
15 Jun 10
Yes it should be banned. The school's job is to teach, if a student is misbehaving there are other ways of punishing them, such as detention or school suspension. Schools will call child services for punishing their own kids, so what gives them the right to punish another person's child?
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@Naxous (973)
• India
15 Jun 10
You are right my friend and what's more pathetic is that the school principal is advocating that the method adopted by him to discipline the boys' is the best available one.I think the principal should be immediately sacked and criminal proceedings must be started against him.
