Corporal Punishment - does it have a place in today's society?

Ko te Ratu 17 o te Mahuru o tenei ra.

Do you really think that Corporal punishment should be brought back to New Zealand schools?

I don’t think that it should be reintroduced because why would teachers hit their students when the parents are not allowed to hit their own children. And abusing children is against the law anyway.

If you had a second just to be in the shoes of one of the students in the class how  would you feel? Smacking the students will probably decrease the child's self esteem. It also could cause the child to have a Phobia for a specific subject. When a child gets smacked in front of the class that is not fair for the children who have to watch the child get smacked and especially embarrassing for the child who is getting the smack. And if the children always watch students being smacked it will make the children scared and frightened to come to school.

I am going to talk to you about the law here in New Zealand. Back in those days the Maori society the children were rarely abused or hit, but once the British villages were recognized in the mid 19th century, corporal punishment became public across the whole village.  

  

Corporal punishment is still going in more than 20 countries around the world. No child should beg for their forgiveness while being hit or spanked etc. Physical punishment also known as  corporal punishment is not a defensible technique for children. The definition of corporal punishment is the use of physical force with purpose of causing a child to feel or experience pain but supposedly no injury.

In my opinion these are some of the  reasons why corporal punishment should stay banned in New Zealand schools and all over the world.

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