Discipline In The Classroom: Past And Present

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Term Paper Title	Discipline In The Classroom: Past And Present
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Discipline in the Classroom: Past and Present

Discipline in the Classroom: Past and Present

     Throughout the history of classroom education, many different types of
disciplinary systems have been applied by teachers and other authority figures
in schools for the sole purpose of controlling student behaviour.  These systems
include corporal punishment, psychological abuse or neglect, and assertive
discipline. Although two of these three topics are illegal at this time, they
were all widely used in schools across the country a short time ago.

     Corporal punishment in general can be defined as the infliction of pain or
confinement as a penalty for an offense committed by a student. During the time
that corporal punishment was used by schools all over the United States and
Canada, parents did not have any say in school discipline.  It was completely up
to the school authority figures on the type of punishment and the severity of
the punishment given to the student.  The classroom teacher had the most say in
the matter since it was the teacher who usually administered the punishment to
the students.  Because of this, some teachers (who especially liked the idea of
physical punishment) took advantage of the minor guidelines set by the principal
to protect students from excessive physical beatings.  These guidelines varied
from school to school, but often included length, width and thickness of the
paddle or any other weapon used, the amount of times the student may be struck
by the weapon, and other minor details about other types of physical punishment.
The list of weapons that were acceptable for teachers to use include  long:
rubber hoses, leather straps and belts, sticks, rods, straight pins, hard
plastic baseball bats, and arrows.  If at the time a teacher did not have
his/her weapon, they would often resort to punching, kicking, slapping and
shaking as ways to "get children's attention". Besides these common manoeuvres
of punishment, other and often more painful techniques were used by teachers.
Children in a class for the learning disabled claimed that their teacher, and
her aide banged their heads into their desks until some students were
unconscious, twisted their arms, and even tried strangulation.  Another teacher
shook hot tabasco sauce in the mouths of the troublesome student and smeared it
in their faces.  When parents found out about this specific act of cruelty, they
were outraged and took their case to state officials.  The final verdi...

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