Schools, intuitions, prisons and the United States Military had practiced and used some kind of corporal punishment in the past. This was used to curb a negative behavior and spanking was widely accepted and used on children during the early and mid-years of The Baby Boomer Generation from 1945-1964. Corporal punishment was a common practice and a method to inflict plain to curb a negative behavior of a child or an adult. Those of us who are old enough hear stories from the Baby Boomer Generation. Teachers, caregivers, and day care centers were permitted to spank someone else’s child. Imagine going to school and failing a test some teachers back then would go as far as hitting a student with a wooden ruler hoping it would curb the behavior of the student to study and pass the next exam. While many parents did not know this was happening to his or hers child. Nevertheless, many people born from 1961-1981 and are from Generation X experienced a something called spanking. This was when a child did something against the social norms of society that parents felt were unacceptable. The child was not subject or spanked by a wooden ruler. An adult spanked he or she …show more content…
Another example is the student who failed on the exam; today education system no longer corrects the student’s poor performance by hitting him or her with a ruler. Some teachers notify the parent and allow the parent to discipline their own child to reduce any negative impact on the school district itself. Some teachers are aware that some students are good students and allow a student a second chance because the student was aware of the mistakes he or she made. Expelling a student or hitting them with a ruler for one or two bad grades will not instill hope, confidence, encouragement, motivation, determination, and could make the situation worse in the end for the