Q
How do you feel about corporal punishment being used in schools as a method of disciplining a child?
A
In my opinion, corporal punishment is not a healthy discipline technique in school or in the family. Discipline should teach there are logical and natural consequences to all our behaviors. Physically punishing and hurting kids teaches that might makes right. It teaches kids to fear that mistakes will bring them pain and shame. It causes them to seek revenge. It makes them lose trust and respect for the teacher who physically punishes them. Short of skillfully restraining a child who has physically become a danger to himself and/or others, teachers should not be permitted to inflict physical punishment upon kids in the name of discipline.