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Corporal Punishment In Schools Essay

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The use of corporal punishment is a controversial topic in the United States. Spanking, paddling, whipping, and flogging have all been part of America’s social and educational history. There are accounts of corporal punishment in educational settings dating back to Egypt, the Incas, and Pre-Columbian America (Midlarsky & Klain, 2005). Promoted in fifteen states, and allowed in another seven, the practice of corporal punishment is an ingrained part of educational disciplinary techniques in schools throughout many southern states, despite the use being legally banned in much of the nation. In 1994, the United States signed, but has since refused to ratify, the United Nations’ Convention of the Rights of the Child. Therefore, the United States is the only developed and industrialized country in the world not formally committing to abolish the use of corporal punishment.
The sanctioned use of corporal punishment in schools began to decline in the late 1970s alongside the only Supreme Court case to rule on educators’ …show more content…

Two of the leading researchers in the field, Boberg and Bourgeois (2016) formed a model of integrated transformational leadership in which they measured the effect of school administrators on student achievement through teacher capacity, teacher extra effort, and student engagement. An applicable point for school administrators is that the leadership influence on student achievement is indirect through many other mediating factors. One of those factors which is extremely effected by the discipline management system of the district is that of school

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