Corporal Punishment In Us Public Schools: Is It Ethical?
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Corporal Punishment In Us Public Schools: Is It Ethical?
{text:bookmark-start} Corporal Punishment in US Public Schools: Is it Ethical? Tiffney Bishop PHI 107 Jerry Voltura {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Corporal Punishment in US Public Schools: Is it Ethical? Corporal punishment is legal in twenty-one states (A Violent Education, 2008). Why is physical abuse still permitted in our schools? The United States is the only country in the western world that still tolerates corporal punishment it its schools (Kennedy, n.d.). The amazing and unbelievable aspect of this is that physical abuse of children in the home is considered a crime, yet it is still allowed in out schools. How can this be? I am completely opposed to corporal punishment. It is a violation of children’s rights and should be abolished. I will begin this paper with a discussion about ethics. I will define and explain ethics. I will then discuss corporal punishment in our schools, which will include the definition of corporal punishment as well as an explanation of the legalities of corporal punishment in the United States. I will also discuss the impact of corporal punishment on students as well as my own personal experience with corporal punishment. Next I will discuss the pros and cons of corporal punishment. I will conclude this paper with a discussion about the actions we, as a society, can take to ban corporal punishment in our schools. Ethics Ethics is the study of the choices people make regarding right and wrong (Ruggiero, 2008). The focus of ethics is moral situations – that is, those situations in which there is a choice of behavior involving human values. An ethicist observes the choices people make in various moral situations and draws conclusions about these choices (Ruggiero, 2008). However, ethicists are not lawmakers, therefore their words do not prescribe what must or must not be done. They merely suggest what ought to be done. The idea of varying degrees of responsibility for one’s actions is also applied to ethics....
