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Corporal punishment
Join our online debate on corporal punishment
- Gulf News
- Published: 11:59 February 11, 2013
- Image Credit: Supplied
- For illustrative purposes only
- Corporal punishment is necessary for keeping unruly children in check so that learning is possible for a majority of children.
- Discipline is necessary and more important that enjoyment in a classroom.
- It is an excuse for lazy educators to not engage trouble students.
- Corporal punishment causes long-term psychological damage in children, which far outweighs the benefits.
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