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Pros And Cons Of Corporal Punishment In Schools

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Over the years, schools have been debating whether or not to ban or allow corporal punishment in school. Schools do not know what to do, considering the 8th Amendment and students and their own children. Corporal Punishment is necessary in schools because it teaches kids not to get in trouble, teachers would feel empowered and will be listened to more often, and the final reason is that kids’ behavior will become better. One reason why corporal punishment is necessary is because it teaches kids to not get in trouble. Kids are always getting into trouble, and that is because of either peer pressure, or their parents are not helping them enough at home. Some schools have no corporal punishment, so they just give them detentions and barely do anything, which is why kids keep getting into trouble. This is what schools are supposed to do. Schools, enforce stronger discipline on the students but to an extent! Some children in Florida, said that they should get a word of say before they get hit. Basically, what this means is that two students got into trouble and were supposed to get hit. They wanted to have a say of what happened and tried to console with them, but the teachers denied. This case went to the Supreme Court, and the statement was that “Students cannot have a word of say before they get hit.” (Ingraham VS Wright). This is understandable because students have a chance to get away before they get hit, which leads them to become criminals or something that is dangerous to the open world. Not only would it teach kids to not get into trouble, teachers would feel more powerful and will be listened to more often than usual. Another reason why corporal punishment should be allowed is because teachers would feel more powerful and have less of a chance of getting stress over yelling at the kids to listen. Kids all over the world don’t fully listen to the teachers who help them(Sifferlin). This causes teachers to get angry and yell at the pupils. Instead of yelling and sending them out of the room, the teachers should whack their hand to let them know they mean business. This would help teachers because they would have less stress. This helps the world and the students because the world would be smarter if

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