Monday, August 8, 2011


Ten ways to approach a question

Better teacher-student understanding, student-friendly curriculum and teaching will be able to remove corporal punishment from schools for ever.

How far do you agree or disagree with this?

1. Punishing children for correction is a topic of discussion, and the majority does not want it. So there are suggestions as to how we can do it. A student-friendly atmosphere at school will surely make it possible. That is what I believe.
2. Punishment hardly makes any correction in children. That is what I feel. So, I think, if schools could be student-friendly, we can say good bye to corporal punishment. I have no problem fully endorsing this view.
3. What makes teachers punish children? Or, what makes children misbehave or fail to comply. Reasons galore. However, if schools are student-friendly, corporal punishment as a correction tool will die out.
4. Corporal punishment and schooling have remained twined for ages. If we want to separate them and say good bye to one, there needs great efforts. Student-friendly school is a right move towards such a goal.
5. Many studies have shown that a punished child is a disturbed soul. Teaching or a teacher should not be instrumental to it. Therefore, the need for removing corporal punishment is much higher. A student-friendly school is a right move by all means.
6. Though there is saying: “spare the rod and spoil the child”, studies show that sparing the rod may save a child instead. So punishing children at academic ambiance is unfair. I believe that a student-friendly school will help a lot in sparing the rod for ever.
7. Punishing children for correction does not have many takers today. In such a context, how can we remove punishment from schools and make children fair well at the same time? I strongly feel that a student friendly atmosphere will do the job.
8. Managing students is a tough task. Still managing them by punishing is a tougher task. That is what I feel. So a student friendly atmosphere at school is a much better option than anything else.
9. School children, it is said, believe and trust their teachers more than their parents. That belief and trust can be instrumental to removing corporal punishment from schools. I stand for such an idea.
10. There are innumerable reasons for a student to be not complying. Is it possible for a teacher to address all these issues? No. But the best a teacher can do is to keep a classroom extremely student-friendly. Corporate punishment as a correction instrument will go out for ever.

A jaypeesdoc. 9.8.011

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