Shool punishment

            Throughout the history of classroom education, many different .
             types of disciplinary systems have been applied by teachers and other .
             authority figures in schools for the sole purpose of controlling student .
             behaviour. These systems include corporal punishment, psychological .
             abuse or neglect, and assertive discipline. Although two of these three .
             topics are illegal at this time, they were all widely used in schools.
             across the country a short time ago. Corporal punishment in.
             general can be defined as the infliction of pain or confinement as a.
             penalty for an offense committed by a student. During the time that.
             corporal punishment was used by schools all over the United States and.
             Canada, parents did not have any say in school discipline. It was.
             completely up to the school authority figures on the type of punishment.
             and the severity of the punishment given to the student. The classroom.
             teacher had the most say in the matter since it was the teacher who.
             usually administered the punishment to the students. Because of this,.
             some teachers (who especially liked the idea of physical punishment) took.
             advantage of the minor guidelines set by the principal to protect.
             students from excessive physical beatings. These guidelines varied from.
             school to school, but often included length, width and thickness of the.
             paddle or any other weapon used, the amount of times the student may be.
             struck by the weapon, and other minor details about other types of.
             physical punishment. The list of weapons that were acceptable for.
             teachers to use include long: rubber hoses, leather straps and belts,.
             sticks, rods, straight pins, hard plastic baseball bats, and arrows. If.
             at the time a teacher did not have his/her weapon, they would often.
             resort to punching, kicking, slapping and shaking as ways to "get .
             children's attention". Besides these common manoeuvres of punishment, .
             other and often more painful techniques were used by teachers.