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Elite Investigative Journal
Impact of Corporal Punishment on the Students in Primary and Secondary Schools, pg 47-53
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Impact of Corporal Punishment on the Students in

Primary and Secondary Schools

By Mamona Atif

acceptance represented by of awareness; applying CP
Problem of the study the school and social ac- on their children at home;

ceptance represented by and refrain from reporting
Although current policy parents. This phenomenon actively their children’s

concerning violence in
schools states that cor-
poral punishment is

banned, we find that it is
being widely practiced in

schools as a common tool
for discipline with barely
parents’ ability to stop

or report it. Reporting is
usually for extreme cases

reported about serious
injuries or even death of
children that are published Photo Courtesy of google.com

to the public such as the is stirred by administrative exposure to assault believ-
death of a child in one of acceptance represented ing that the school will not

Punjab schools as a result by the school through not take deterrent action.
of a teacher’s beating. implementing the policy
There is little record on effectively; lack of com- This study shows that CP

child abuse or child death munication with family; is widespread in schools
resulting from violence. inability to find alterna- especially in public
tive means of discipline schools. This failure of

Possible reasons for ex- to teachers; and margin- implementation was main-
panding the use of corpo- alizing the role of social ly attributed to administra-

ral punishment in schools workers. Social accep- tive and social acceptance.
in spite of its legal ban tance is exemplified by We will consider in this

could be administrative parents’ acceptance; lack chapter how to reduce

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