Hi Thanes,
This is an interesting topic. I thought you might find this article on corporal punishment in schools interesting:

Dear Parent:

Good for you for asking this question! It's good to question the "norms" in parenting, as each of us has a chance to think for ourselves, rather than simply carry on traditions, in our relationships with our children.

We don't condone spanking, either. It models physical attack as a "problem-solving" strategy, and I don't think that's the model we want our children to be adopting. They learn so much more from what we do than from what we say!

Here's a fuller article on spanking, and what we think works much much better.

Yours,

Patty Wipfler

it can cause studunts to become sucidal

im a highschooler now but i remeber i used to get spankings all the time for bad or worse things.Many pepole sa that corpal punishment is bad but i turned out fine i have plenty of friends in fact im almost popular and i have no emotional problem so anybody who says corparal punishment is wrong hit me up.