Regaining Authority

Corporal Punishment should be at the discretion of the parent. In schools, the parent should be able to give the teacher permission on whether or not they want their child physically punished. Twenty- two states allow some type of corporal punishment. Children in America today are given everything they want by whining or complaining. Teachers, with the use of corporal punishment can now regain their authority in the classroom. The teacher of today has merely become a figure at the front of the classroom, someone to mock and disrespect. A light spanking will never hurt a child if kept within the parameters of “light.” In Kenya, the teachers used this same mentality but were never regulated by officials so the light spankings became beatings which resulted in broken bones and sometimes death.
This idea of re-instating corporal punishment in most classrooms is not to frighten children but to put them in their place in order to behave. In private schools, the discretion should be left to the headmaster. The headmaster has ownership of a private facility for learning and it is left to the parent if they will admit their child into a corporal punishment environment.
In the home and outside of it, the parent should make the sole decision on how they will punish their child. A parent should not live in fear of capital punishment because of their misbehaving offspring. Children are born innately sinful and need to be taught how to behave. If the parent sticks them in a corner and has them count to ten, what have they learned other than how to count to ten? A spanking will instill a mentality of bad behavior equals punishment. Everything should be at the discretion of the parent on how they want their child raised. If public and private schools aren’t sufficient, consider homeschooling.