The History of Corporal Punishment

            Corporal punishment has a history in the past, which started off with being very harsh to coming to reasonable and acceptable grounds. The background of corporal punishment not only involved children getting hit, but also involved adults. People of higher authorities in the 18^th centuries often used flogging towards people with lower authorities that misbehaved in a way that disappointed the person in charge. After flogging had been stopped then teachers to discipline their students used birch twigs and the courts for smaller offences to discipline the accused also used them.

Teachers used corporal punishment towards their students to a very high and severe context and even in the workplace children were hit if they were being lazy and not completing the work that was asked to be completed. Different instruments were used to discipline their students such as rods, rulers, slippers and leather straps. In the 1860's there was a case in which a teacher had beaten his student to death because the student was being stubborn. This case lead the media to criticize schoolteachers and they called them names such as monstrous. After seeing the effects that were lead by corporal punishment it was doubted to how far it can help a child in a positive way. Corporal punishment was legal until the late 20^th and early 21^st centuries where it then became unconstitutional and the law was reinforced.