Why don’t we reintroduce corporal punishment to teach these petulant kids a lesson just like we were beaten when we were young? These items are backed up by evidence – there is strong evidence that seat belts protect lives and that smoking is linked to lung cancer. We are back again clamouring for reintroduction of corporal punishment, but we don’t ask the critical question - where is evidence that corporal punishment works? The argument that “it has worked for me; just see how well I have turned out” does not hold in public policy making. In a nut-shell we should not be quick to re-adopt corporal punishment as a public policy to fix indiscipline in schools without carefully weighing up the evidence.

Source: Standard Digital February 26, 2021 18:51 UTC