We assist educators with the implementation of alternative methods of discipline in schools. Again, based on my understanding of the resarch, corporal punishment is not administered fairly. A school that allows teachers or administrators to spank or hit children some sort of rod also removes much of the general protection for children against unwarranted teacher or administrator abuse. Our cars, our schools, our neighborhood grocery store are all places that no longer seem safe to Americans. This has triggered, in my view, a desire to return to a somewhat mythical bucolic past of community values and adult control.
Schools can mirror society and our correctional system.
Note the introduction of metal detectors and security guards, locker searches and security through architectural design. These approaches do indeed recall prisons, and now airports and sports events. The desire to return to more authoritarian forms of punishment does mirror our society's fervor for mandatory sentencing, concealed weapons permits, the death penalty, and even caning. I do seriously oppose corporal punishment, and have been broadly outlining a number of successful attributes of violence prevention programs, of which there are many, but which need serious assessment.