Best Argument Ever Against Corporal Punishment in Schools

Should parents hit their kids for "discipline?" I won't even go there at this point. Instead, let's talk about corporal punishment in schools: teachers being permitted by law to strike students. I know a woman who steadfastly believes in corporal punishment from parent to child. But at the same time, she is dead-against corporal punishment being allowed in the school system: "Nobody touches my kids," she has said.

When parents hit their kids, they claim it's out of love. Maybe it is in some cases, and maybe it's because the parent is the one throwing the temper tantrum, in that a man who hits his kids is the same man who'd smack his wife upside the head for being five minutes late with dinner. And a woman who hits her kids can't control her emotions and has anger management problems because of her own harsh upbringing. Enough of that.

When teachers hit students, is it out of love? When a teacher believes students should get spankings or be whacked across the knuckles with a ruler, is this because that teacher loves that child? That's a load of crap and you know it. The quickest, easiest way to control a feisty or disruptive kid is to hit him. No brains, creativity, problem solving or thought processes required. The easy way out for a harried, impatient teacher.

Do you really want someone else hitting your kids? Where do you draw the line? What if the teacher is a 200 pound man, and the kid he hits is your 14 year old daughter -- and he wallops her on the rump? Or maybe he smacks her in the breast and claims he meant to smack her on the shoulder but she moved at the last minute? Do you see the repercussions here, if hitting is allowed in schools?

What if a junior high school teacher is a 5-2 woman who, in an attempt to vent her frustrations and get in her personal "hit quota," picks on only those kids under five feet? The big kids, no matter how unruly, get no corporal punishment. But alas, one day she loses it and smacks a bigger kid. He or she then hits back! Knocks her to the floor!