If lessons are learned in punishment, what have the pupils learned from it?  Punishment does not control misconduct.  It only makes the offender more cautious in committing a mistake.  Punishment develops the offender’s ability to conceal traces of the mistakes committed.  A punished offender becomes skillful in escaping detection.  With this, he becomes less honest and less responsible.

 

Other concludes that punishment controls behavior, but it does not produce desirable behavior nor reduce the chance of misbehaving. 

 

What is more appropriate is to humor the children instead of scolding and punishing them.  It develops within them a sense of being hears of being and given the chance to air their side.  It is not surprising to hear complaints about a child’s misbehavior.  But punishment is not an avenue to treat the misconduct committed.

 

So, is there a lesson learned after imposing a punishment on an erring pupil or child?  Probably there is.  But is it the ability of the children to be untrue to their feelings because of the restrictions imposed by the punishment.

 

 

 

 

 

By: Ana Paz D. Guevarra | Teacher III | Daan Pare Elementary School | Orion, Bataan