Do you approve of hitting children to punish them, under certain conditions?

[davidpdx]

22. I voted no

I'll make two observations about abuse in schools:

1) My 1st grade teacher slammed my head against a desk several times and to my knowledge never got in trouble for it (of course she may have later, I don't know).

2) I work in South Korea and teachers used to hit students. A law was passed several years ago making it illegal (I have no idea about the details). The first hagwon (private institute) I worked at I saw a Korean teacher "quizzing" a student after class and when he gave a wrong answer she smacked him on the hand with a ruler. Later when I worked at an elementary school I saw another teacher approach a student who had fallen down (I can't remember why now as that was quite along time ago) and the teacher tried to stomp on him with his shoe. In both situations I believe the teacher was wrong and should have been reported.