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Corporal punishment should not be re-introduced in public schools

Corporal punishment is the worst recommendation I heard being proposed to prevent students from burning schools. When it existed, it did not prevent students from burning schools. What corporal punishment did was to instill fear and not to change or remedy the situation.

In fact, corporal punishment hardens students and they become used to it.

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