Academic Discipline: Corporal/
People who choose the path to becoming teacher will usually have an enormous amount of patience and a big heart. But sometimes heart and patience are not enough when it comes teenagers. Sometimes it can be annoying and trying when they do encounter those special ones, the troublemakers who give them headaches. As teachers or parents, don't we wish for an easier, faster, and more effective way get our message across the teenager's head, instead of repeating words like" don't do" and "stop that!" It would be a way that is so effective, that not only does it serve as a lesson for one student, but to all others as well. People tend to learn things faster when pain is involve; as a child, we don't know the fire is hot until we get burnt and we don't know dogs bite until bitten by one. Similarly, if we apply the system of "Physical Punishment" for children, it may prevent further growth of their misbehavior as well as it "... prevent any possible physical harm or an excessive nature" (Wolfgang 169). When people get push towards the edge, they tend to do things they don't mean to. As a parent or an educator, how does one know when is a good time to apply physical punishment? Or how much punishment is enough? Everyone knows how to punish
Physical punishment could be very effective in many situations. In the classroom, it serves as a purpose of keeping order, motivating students to study harder, and to aspire them to higher goals. At home, it helps the parents to teach the child respect for the elders, and to help them correct misbehavior, bad attitudes or their bad habits The use of corporal punishment in school is one of the most controversial issues debated between educators, psychologists, and parents. In many schools, as well as in many countries, it is impermissible. However, in Asia, physical punishment has been a common practice. Many teachers and parents believe that it is one of the most effective ways to discipline children and, a good system for schoolteachers to help educated them. It is common in Asia for parents to instill the idea of " they yell at you because they love you, and they hit you because they care about you, and the harder they hit that means the more they care." at a young age. And when the yelling or hitting stops, it could mean they either gave up hope, or they don't care anymore. I recall once my dad told me, " If one day I stop slapping you across the face for your mistake, it could mean two things: one, you have finally become a man, and that you would take a good care of it yourself. Or two, I am about to kick you out of my house in the next five minutes and forget that I ever have you as a son." As children, we listen to whatever our elders tell us, especially when we are at very a young and sensitive age. When the parents tell us they hit us is because they care about us; basically, our natural reaction would be to bend over and ask them to hit us couple more times. Similar in my case, when my dad first told me that, I was hoping he would never stop slapping me across the face, or at least until I become a man. Although I don't really know when that would be, but as a young child, I would not defy the elder's actions and I did not question the elder's commands. I was originally from Taiwan, and I lived under their corporal punishment system for almost eighteen years of my life. I have personally experience and seen the effectiveness of corporal punishment. Many opponents of physical punishment suggest using communication and trying to talk things out with the child as better way. Although the statement does hold true in most situations, we have to realize a child will reach a certain age when he stops listening to authority. The only thing that is connecting the teenager's right and left ears would be a straight tube. When the command is given, it goes in one ear and out the next. Talking to them can often be a waste of time. Time-out, grounding, and detention hall are a few other ways that teachers and parents like to use to discipline their students and children. " Being the principal for forty years, I dealt with many trouble makers. Sending the child to the Detention hall, it is just like another naptime for many of them. Not only so, it would be a waste of time for the teachers and for me"(Gardner) This doesn't seem to be realistic. Sending students to detention hall, and time-out are just not the same as it was thirty years ago. The reason being that I has been scientifically proven that human's life expectancy has been increase by more than thirty-three percent, because of rapid growth of medical technology. Basically, we get to live thirty year long then from before, so what do we do with all this free time we have? We sleep more. Telling the students to go to the detention hall and sending the child for time-outs, would be like another naptime that they take in every class. Grounding the child may not have the same effect as well. With new game-stations and the fast convenient Internet technology, a child could stay in their room and sit in front of the television or PC for hours surfing the Internet, or playing the video games. Time-out, grounding, and detention hall, are not effective ways to use on a modern
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