School corporal punishment : Public perceptions on using the methods to discipline the students / Hirmayani Tahir ... [et al.]

Most of the people had experienced situations of corporal punishment, especially
during their school sessions either in secondary or high school and some of them have
suffered from the incidences do not have any courage to tell their parents because they
might think that it is allowed to be done by the teachers. Corporal punishment is the
practice of physical force with the purpose of causing the children pain but it is for the
means of correction and controlling the child's behavior (Gershoff E. T., 2002). It is a
common situation where punishment uses to modify a person's behavior or to discipline
as what happen in school till today. However, to the extent to which it gives an impact
towards the student's growth in school either can help to prevent unethical behavior or
put them in a bad environment in which school as a place they supposed to learn and gain
knowledge.
Furthermore, corporal punishment, including spanking or slapping on the head,
which not being classified as abuse which as long as no marks are left over a relatively
short period of time. So, to distinguish physical abuse and corporal punishment, two
factors need to be consider which is the force and the intention.