Corporal Punishment in Schools and its Effect on Academic Success: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities
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2010
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U.S. House of Representatives
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The use of corporal punishment in the school environment falsely and perfidiously reinforces physical aggression as an acceptable and effective means of eliminating unwanted behavior in our society. Corporal punishment in schools is an ineffective, dangerous, and unacceptable method of discipline. Nonviolent methods of classroom control should be utilized in all our school systems. Teachers should be educated in the use of alternative methods of discipline, with an emphasis on employing evidence-based behavior modification and other techniques to maintain control of the classroom without resorting to violence. Our precious children should not be subjected in the school milieu to hitting, slapping, spanking, punching, kicking, pinching, shaking, shoving, choking, use of various objects (wooden paddles, belts, sticks, pins, or others), painful body postures (as placing in closed spaces), use of electric shock, use of excessive exercise drills, or prevention of urine or stool elimination. (Author Text)
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child abuse, corporal punishment, schools, discipline, spanking
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Greydanus, D. E. (2010). Corporal Punishment in Schools and its Effect on Academic Success: Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. U.S. House of Representatives, Washington DC: GPO, 2010, 15 pp. (Serial No. 111-55)