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Should Teachers Be Allowed To Paddle Students By Alice Park: Article Analysis

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In this article entitled “Should teachers be allowed to paddle students” Alice Park suggests there is a little evidence that spanking actually works to change children’s behavior for the better.
The author presented an examples of school punishment at Springtown High School in Texas, where a student was paddled by the vice principal, and the negative outcome after that punishment. Statistics shows that nineteen states permit corporal punishment in schools; however spanking may not be a solution to change children’s behavior. Moreover, researchers gave some examples of negative outcome such as bad behavior and lower IQ. In addition, experts pointed out the unfair statistics about the effect of school punishment and home punishment are the same.

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