Should teachers use collective punishment?
For example if a lot of people in a class are being badly behaved but some people aren't is is OK for the teacher to place the whole class in detention?
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Unfortunately its necessary. I do the same with my class. If there is a class and half of them are continuously you have no choice but to punish the whole class. It would be more unfair just to pick on the 2 or 3 you happen to catch. If you were to do it that way the it would also show the ones that you didn't catch that they can get away with disrupting the lesson. Side: Yes
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The first reason is misbehaving students don’t care if others are punished for their actions. Actually, they prefer it. It means that they don’t have to suffer alone. So, in all honesty, this is ineffective. The second reason is collective punishment gives students a reason to misbehave. If you know you’re going to get punished for showing up in a classroom, then why don’t you break some rules? I mean, you’re going to get punished anyway, where is the incentive to behave? The third reason is collective punishment damages the relationship between the teacher and the well-behaved students. Even if they choose to behave instead of misbehave, they will still feel the sting of injustice. They know the consequence is not only unfair, but unjust. Of course, these students will resent the real culprits, but they will resent the teacher more. The final reason is, if I am not mistaken, the goal of punishment is to correct and redirect the actions of those who are in the wrong. If so, then what is the goal of punishing those who didn’t do anything wrong? Is it to correct and redirect the actions of those who are in the right? To teach them to misbehave? Is this really what you are striving for? Side: No
I was a victim of collective punishment in school which still makes my blood boil to this day. If the whole class is bad except for a couple of kids there is NO chance that minority can persuade or use peer pressure to stop the rest from misbehaving. I dropped out of choir because I found my inclusion in collective punishment so absurd. I in fact was the only member of the class who even completed the punishment by deadline, the rest all refused or got mommy and daddy to defend their bad behavior. So unfair. Side: No
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