Corporal Punishment in Education

            Corporal punishment is the physical punishment by hitting, kicking and many others. In education this punishment is given to the student who does not obey the discipline. Nowadays most of the teachers give the corporal punishment for the student. This punishment is not good to be applied in education. It can cause many negatives effects; it can be explained by the following reasons.

            Corporal punishment can lower a child’s IQ. A study at the University of New Hampshire, released in 1998, found that corporal punishment apparently slows down their intellectual development. That is why this punishment is not good in education. The student who has high IQ and clever may become lower IQ and stupid student, there are too many student who can not increased their IQ because of this punishment. It also can hamper their creativity and imagination.

Corporal punishment can cause serious physical damage. We can find much news in the mass media that talk the about the student needing treatment for broken arm or injures on their skin. In this case we can conclude that the student is not safe with this punishment, in Washington sometimes the teacher hit or kick the student on their sex organ. So, this case is under human right, it doesn’t solve the problem but make new problems.

On the other hand, Walter William said that corporal punishment is a good tool for disciplining students.  Nowadays there are criminals done by the student in the school and out of school. This punishment is the wider solution to solve it, the student can not prevented by speaking and the other punishment. Corporal punishment can make the student afraid to do the mistake, it can be more effective.

              The second opponent is the corporal punishment can help save a child’s future. Oscar Goodman said “I also believe in a little bit of corporal punishment going back to the days of yore, where examples have to be shown.” For example the student who gets this punishment in the school she or he will not break the discipline but obey the discipline. The discipline student will be the success people in the future.

In short, corporal punishment is not good for student. Corporal punishment can help to save child’s future and it a good tool to discipline the student. Those are not good reasons for corporal punishment allowed to be applied in education. There are many ways to make the student discipline. Children do not need hitting but they need advising and motivation. The other way is by giving them the good example in their daily.