Should corporal punishment in educational institutions be made a criminal offence in India?

Yes, all kinds of brutalities on the children in the name of making them desciplined should be banned and the violators, be it teachers or parents, should be treated as criminals.

Yes, It sholuld be banned , because it is the act of by a weak personality . The person who is issuing punishment is not able to understand children psychology.

One  should have the  judgementability to apply love, fear, toughness rationally.

The CP never give the positive  result.

Alind

inflicting any kind of punishment associated with physical pain should be condemned. Human beings are not animals therefore minor children should also be treated with proper care and love. However punishing the students to improve their behaviour in such a manner that would put impressions on the fertile minds of the children be in such a form which cause reprimend not physical pain. Punishing with love will lead the child to improve him/her.

Yes sarika, it should be banned & made criminal offence, not only at educational institution, i will go a step ahead at homes also. Afterall, children has got their own life, we should allow them to blossom on their own. They shld be allowed to make mistakes & learn from them.  Unfortunately, because of social & economical pressure children r becoming targets to vent their frustration by punishing the child in form of abuse,beating,canning for the only reason they r notable to hit back or defend themselves against injustice.

Both parents & teachers r under the impression that by inflicting corporal punishment they r correcting/discipline the children. Rather the fear of punishment instilled in children  will make them disciplined & more responsible.

As a famous poet has quoted that "there r no bad children or bad dogs, but yes there r bad parents & bad masters"

In a civilised society of today, nobody can support Corporal Punishment. One may fill pity for students in lower and upper schools in India, where CP is practiced.

Children are children and they are always going to do things that is considered wrong in adult eyes. That does not mean that you beat them up for their mistakes! They should be explained as to why they are wrong and of course, if the bad behavior continues, then they should be punished. But if we want to teach our children that violence is abhorred and that they must never raise their hand to strike another, then we ourselves must not be hypocritical and do that very thing.

I think so.

No one denies that wrong doers should be punished ; this is true for adults , it should be true for children also , both at home and at school.

The debatable point is CP ; is this justified ?

I would say no , for the following reasons :

1.  It can be abused ; depending on the person inflicting the punishment , the degree can range from mild to fatal !

2.  It is degrading ; using violence to correct a person , whether a child or an adult , implies that the culprit is not amenable to any other form of correction. Let us consider the case of habitual offenders in other areas ; so many drivers are habitual offenders ; do we start CP for them too ? If we decry third degree methods for criminals at the hands of the police , we should also ban CP in schools.

3.  In the long run , CP builds up resentment in the victim , and a sense of defiance ; if a child gets punished several times , the sense of shame is replaced by a streak of rebellion ; the child offends in order to show that he does not care for the authority who is going to punish him.

4.  If we agree to CP in schools , does it mean that we follow such measures in the home also ? How many of us parents , who agree to CP in schools , discipline our child at home in the same manner ? If we do not do it at home , how can we justify it in school ?