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Corporal Punishment
 Corporal punishment is a way for people to teach kids a lesson through physical violence. People think that this causes kids not to be rude or mean. I have been punished in other ways, but I have never been punished violently. The famous children's book author Roald Dahl was punished through the violent and cruel ways of corporal punishment when he was a child. Now people are debating whether or not we should allow corporal punishment.

I have not been punished much throughout my different schools, but I have been punished. Many of these things happened because I was young or not thinking. During my preschool years, I was suspended for biting a kid and banned from the little house. The later years, I was in trouble for approaching a kid who had a peanut allergy with a peanut butter sandwich. I was very good during my first few years in Woodlynd. During my last years, however, I started to get detentions and study halls for not finishing my homework or being mean. My first year here at Crefeld has started off great, because I have kept a positive attitude. These are the punishments I had through the years of my different schools. 

Roald Dahl was punished many, many times when he was growing up. Unlike me, he was punished in school for almost his entire childhood. His most painful and common punishment was being hit on the butt with a cane. At his first boarding school, St. Peter's, Roald Dahl and all the other boys were under the constant watch of the Matron. She would punish you if you snored by dropping soap flakes down your throat like she did with that boy named Tweedie. At Repton, he was practicality punished non-stop by the boazers, mean older boys who were in charge of the younger boys. Roald Dahl has grown up in a world where he and many others were beaten for even the slightest mistake.

Today school punishment is determined by where you live and what you believe in. America is a country were people are not allowed to beat children. I'm not sure what other countries do, but it's probably not very good. For some reason, however, people are starting to think that we should start more harsh school punishments again. This is a sure fire way for kids to become emotionally unstable and become bullies or drug addicts. The people who think this will help us in school are either soulless or stupid. That is a brief summary of our country's school system, and it doesn't look good at all.

Through the years corporal punishment has changed dramatically. It has evolved from the early and painful years of Roald Dahl's life in school, to the more sensible way of study halls, detentions, suspensions and expulsion. Now people are once again thinking that beating kids will help them in school. These are the ways that corporal punishment has changed through the years, and badly affected the children of the past and hopefully will not affect the children of the future.  Return to Mosaic Homepage