Corporal punishment is a form of physical abuse that involves deliberate infliction of pain to try

stop bad behaviour deemed unacceptable by a child and inflicted by an adult... is this ethical??
Corporal punishment was banned in Ireland in 1982, and its use became a criminal offence in 1996
Granted there is research by the American Psychological association that the stimulus of touch sinks
into a Childs brain more so than auditory...
But Corporal is more harmful than helpful... the opposing team claims it is the only successful way
to correct misbehaviour... However physical abuse has other effects on children, within their homes
and society, it lowers their self esteem and teaches them to be victims, interferes with the learning
process intellectually and emotionally, discourages the use of reasoning instead of talking and
figuring out what they done wrong reflecting on their misbehaviour. It damages their self
confidence,
Hurts society by saying violence is ok, and creates a double standard saying it is not ok for adults to
hit other adults but ok to hit children.....

Corporal punishment offers any easy way out for teachers. Rather than trying to engage with
disruptive children in order to find out the cause of their misbehavior, they can send them on to be
physically punished so that hopefully they will not speak up as much in class.
This serves only to mask the underlying problem in many instances. Often the students who acts out
most in class suffer from domestic abuse, or are from unstable households or have a special need,
again is this ethical to punish the children who are constantly struggling everyday...
These students are the most vulnerable in the classroom, and corporal punishment does nothing to
help them, but rather serves only to compound the problem further.
Teachers will often take the easy solution, sending the student off to get physically abused rather
than using Skinners approach of operant conditioning and positive reinforcement this will promote
a healthy learning environment and produce creative and problem solvers we need, rather than
capping the students learning through fear!!
It is proven in the United States, where in states that allow corporal punishment test scores tend to
be lower.
36% of states that allow corporal punishment have a state composite score average above the
national mean; compared to 89% of those where it is banned scoring above the mean.
This has been linked to lack of attempted engagement by teachers with students, who instead
choose the violent as punishment over more constructive engagement. Clearly, corporal punishment
does nothing but encourage teachers to take the path that is easy for them at the expense of their
students' wellbeing....