Corporal Punishment -- EDPR 2111 Sec 201 1050-1230 M-F

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Date Posted: 07:02:08 07/26/07 Thu
Author: Vance Gamble
Subject: Corporal Punishment

www.religioustolerance.org/spankin3.htm

I personally do not think corporal punishment should be used to control or deter bad behavior. However, I was raised in a household where a combination of behavior controls was employed and among them was corporal punishment. For example, during my early childhood my mother used to spank my sister and I when we did something wrong. For me the spanking meant next time I should be craftier so that I won�t get caught�and often time I did. The spanking it self didn�t serve as a reminder for me to stop my bad behavior. According to my mother, when I reach the �age of reason� somewhere around seven or nine years old my mother stopped spanking us. She started issuing out extra chores around the house and yard, taking way freedoms, and restriction (kind of like house arrest). It is ironic that during my schooling my mother was adamantly against corporal punishment in the classroom. I thought it was a bit hypocritical. She wrote a letter to the superintendent of the school board and the principle of my school stating that neither my sister nor I should get paddled at school. This was quite a controversial move and spread among parents in the PTA. At my school since suspension and paddling was the only two methods used for punishment when I got into trouble I was immediately subject to the former. Until, I started to bargain with my teachers a move I would later realized was illegal. I told them that if they did not suspend me they could paddle me and I would not tell my mother. Why did I do this? I figured that if I was sent home the likely hood of me getting into more trouble would be more severe. I asked my mother why she wrote the letter and she said: �I feel like teachers shouldn�t paddle �my� child; that is a parent�s right not the teachers�.� When I was younger I believed corporal punishment worked only to contribute to my delinquency often time I left the situation feeling angry and wronged.
Nurses should NEVER use corporal punishment with a patient. Culturally (American), there is a difference between nursing and teaching professionals. The difference is that it is illegal for a nurse to abuse a patient and not all states have outlawed corporal punishment as a means of punishment in the classroom. Again, I do not believe either professionals should use the method but unconditionally a nurse should never use it. Corporal punishment is ineffective for long term behavior control.

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