Is corporal punishment right or wrong?

Here in the USA they stopped letting parents whip their children for doing something wrong. The children all over the world have gotten out of hand we need to restore punishment for doing bad things. I don't think that that child should have done what he done sounds to me like he is mad because he didn't do good enough work to make a better grade. Yes corporal punishment is right! It says in the bible and eye for an eye but people stopped punishing people the way Gods word says and this country is going to hell in a hand basket for not sticking to Gods word.

Hi, I agree that there is a lot more freedom these days than earlier times when students dare not speak against teachers or any elders for that matter.I am not sure if that is right either...Another thing is that these days everything gets highlighted by the media which in its own way is good since we get all the news - good,bad and the ugly ! However, taking everything into consideration I still feel that at 14 a person these days is intelligent and mature enough to know that he has committed a serious crime.He needs to be punished accordingly ....

Messed up, but its not like that punishing a child through physical means is going to work either. It might straighten them out under some circumstances, but it could also teach them that violence is the answer to put people in their place. I think that might be the reason why this is phased out. Then again, you must wonder the ethics that the parents have taught this child. When something like this happens, nine times out of ten, it is the fault of the parents and their inability to raise children.

Making a child fear pain in order to learn is not something that should be done. Making a child learn discipline in order to learn is what should be done. The two are sometimes interchanged to be the same thing when they are clearly not. Teachers before were seen to be responsibe enough to give out punishments as they see fit in order to instill order and have the student learn. Not only that but parents as well used physical punishments to do the same thing therefore it wasn't unuusal to have a teacher do the same. I believe anyway. It is now different for a number of reasons. We have made an understanding with ourselves that pain is not proper way to enforce discipline. Though at times some light spanking or other very small forms of punishment are fine but it is never ok to hurt a child to the point where they are left with marks, bruises, bleeding, etc etc. In order to stop such from happeneing times have changed as much as they have because of this. It is a parents job to teach a child discipline and have them grow up right. Parents might have different ideas than others therefore it is not right to punish a child physically when their parent believes it to be wrong. If you say that if maybe the teacher had given a proper punishment maybe things would have been different you can't possibly know that he may have gone right or gotten worse who knows. The teacher either way does not have that right. He does have a right to give out punishments in a proper and convenient manner that does not do wrong to any side. I do not see your connection in your story. ARe you trying to say that if the student had been better punished maybe this wouldn't have happened? I don't know. I would think that the student needed help rather than punishment. Was he known to have moments of rage? Was he an angry person, what caused him to react so violently over low marks? What was the relationship between the student and teacher? Was he known to be very angry? Was he on any medication? and as you can see rather than punishment of the student there are so many other factors that coudl have led to his snapping point of killing his teacher rather than not being punished properly :p. That is if that is what you are trying to say

I don’t believe not having corporal punishment or having it would have made any difference in this case. The kid should have never had a weapon in school…. Period. Sometimes teachers do get attacked, but I don’t think hitting kids or beating kids is anything different than kids hitting adults… assault is assault. I was ‘spanked’ as a kid… beaten is more like it and suffered a broken bone because of it and then my parents lie about the cause of my injury to keep my father from going to jail. Some folks don’t know when to stop when they go off hitting their kids… my daughter got hit by the principal at school once and left bruises on her… he’s lucky I didn’t sue him… I did go up there and lay the law down that he will NEVER lay a hand on my daughter again. She didn’t even do anything to get hit for… she was trying to pay attention while another kid was trying to get her attention but she got hit… They don’t hit at that school anymore because it is considered abuse. I was also abused by an angry parent… I never got hit or kicked unless my father was angry. He never hit me when he was in a good mood.

I don't punishment is wrong but it depends on the way you do it. In this case I think punishment won't help anymore. If a 14 year old boy is stabbing a teacher for this, I think he is not normal and it's better to test if he is not a psychopath. This boy will kill again. Anger management won't help him either.

I can only share my experience of what it was like to experience a world where corporal punishment was used on us kids. As I was growing up corporal punishment was used in our schools. I was caned twice for being rude to the teacher. It hurt, but after the second time, I quit being rude. I did not dare to go home and tell my parents that I had been caned, of they would have chastised me for being rude to my elders.. It was no big deal. Whilst my hand hurt for a while, it soon stopped and I quickly moved on. It taught me how to respect my elders whether or not I thought they were right or wrong. Nobody ever beat me hard and all us kids in school were respectful and worked hard at our schoolwork. _Derek

We have to go by the rules framed by the government and education authorities. Now it is wrong to scold a student or punish a teacher by beating. Still some of us do on a lighter level. we do give punishment like standing outside the class etc. even nowadays.