RE: Corporal Punishment?
August 18, 2011 at 9:37 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2011 at 9:39 am by Napoléon.)
(August 18, 2011 at 9:02 am)Aerzia Saerules Arktuos Wrote: Tis all too easy for parents to abuse physical pain as a punishment... and some will even enjoy it.
I knew someone would say this.
The difference between a parent and a teacher though, is that if a parent wants to do it, regardless of what the law says there isn't much stopping them and no one can monitor it unless it is flagged to social services or whatever.
It becomes a shitload harder for a teacher to abuse kids like this if the law is against physical beating however, because they do not have the cover of using corporal punishment as reason for beating a student. If the law says that corporal punishment cannot be used in a classroom it becomes almost impossible for a teacher to abuse kids in this manner and get away with it. Would you say the same if the law was that corporal punishment could not be used by parents?
You can more effectively enforce the law in a public estabilishment like a school, it's much harder to enforce it in people's homes.