Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "School corporal punishment, an official punishment for misbehaviour by school students, involves striking the student a given number of times in a generally methodical and premeditated ceremony. The punishment is usually administered either across the buttocks or on the hands, with an implement specially kept for the purpose such as a rattan cane, wooden paddle, slipper, leather strap or wooden yardstick. Less commonly, it could also include spanking or smacking the student in a deliberate manner on a specific part of the body with the open hand, especially at the elementary school level.Advocates of school corporal punishment argue that it provides an immediate response to indiscipline and that the student is quickly back in the classroom learning, rather than being suspended from school. Opponents argue that physical punishment is ineffective in the long term, interferes with learning, produces numerous harmful side effects, and is a form of violence that violates the rights of children.In the English-speaking world, the use by schools of corporal punishment has historically been justified by the common law doctrine of in loco parentis, whereby a school has the same rights and duties over minor students as their parents do.School corporal punishment has been banned in virtually all of Europe, most of South America, more than half of U.S. states, and in Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. The first country in the world to prohibit it was Poland in 1783.Member states of the Convention on the rights of the child are obliged to "take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse […] while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child." (Article 19)."@en }
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- School_corporal_punishment abstract "School corporal punishment, an official punishment for misbehaviour by school students, involves striking the student a given number of times in a generally methodical and premeditated ceremony. The punishment is usually administered either across the buttocks or on the hands, with an implement specially kept for the purpose such as a rattan cane, wooden paddle, slipper, leather strap or wooden yardstick. Less commonly, it could also include spanking or smacking the student in a deliberate manner on a specific part of the body with the open hand, especially at the elementary school level.Advocates of school corporal punishment argue that it provides an immediate response to indiscipline and that the student is quickly back in the classroom learning, rather than being suspended from school. Opponents argue that physical punishment is ineffective in the long term, interferes with learning, produces numerous harmful side effects, and is a form of violence that violates the rights of children.In the English-speaking world, the use by schools of corporal punishment has historically been justified by the common law doctrine of in loco parentis, whereby a school has the same rights and duties over minor students as their parents do.School corporal punishment has been banned in virtually all of Europe, most of South America, more than half of U.S. states, and in Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. The first country in the world to prohibit it was Poland in 1783.Member states of the Convention on the rights of the child are obliged to "take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse […] while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child." (Article 19).".