Speaker Geeks! discussion

No. Not at all.

I do not think teachers should be allowed to physically punish students. I think it is wrong and should be left to the parents of the child.

Sure but only if they have a professional bout/training with each other in MMA or boxing or any other hitting sports! :P

It's just plain wrong though. But who'll care?

In some countries, students get used to it, leaving no room for depression; as their parents blame the teachers if students are getting bad grades, teachers end up losing their jobs. But most of the other countries wont be able to grasp this ideology. So how would you establish a parameter for the global moral ethics on such punishments?

Not condoning this, as for me it's always a heinous crime.... but what about those parents, teachers and students who agree on such punishments? In China, they give extreme training to their kids (5-7 years old) for future golds. The pain they inflict on them looks excruciating enough to make us call it torture. Google "Chinese children gymnastics torture".
Where they prioritize studies; does that make it any less professional? They believe, children don't get to be depressed or anything, as they are the wet clay you can shape however you want by any means.

No never hit a child. That is somewhere in the teacher handbook. I'm guessing near the top.

Children don't understand things the way adults do. Hitting a child for something they don't understand was wrong will just confuse them.

I don't believe in corporal punishment because I think it's abuse. I can understand being frustrated with a child, but the teacher should go to the parents about the child's behavior.

Teachers are being fired for saying mean things about their students on Facebook when kids do it to the teachers all the time. Teachers are being fired for calling 1st graders who steal her things "Future Bad Guys."

These teachers aren't doing anything harmful to the students and the students do the same thing to teacher without punishment. Why should teachers get into trouble about these things when students do it all the time and not get into trouble.