CORPORAL punishments in school--------are they required??????

Corporal punishment has been an age old debate, even having a age old proverb to its credit- "spare the rod and spoil the child".
Managing a class full of fractious children is difficult, especially with the pressures of an overload of corrections and heavy syllabus. Whatever be the rot causes, corporal punishment is not at all justifiable. schools adapt different strategies to maintain discipline and order. Some schools routinely rely on corporal punishment while some others prohibit this practice.The question is does corporal punishment serve any purpose?????

A nine year old girl was made to stand with her back facing the class, her skirt was lifted and her bottom was smacked because she had not done her homework , the teacher did not bother to enquire why she had not done her homework and tackle the specific problem. The result was utter humiliation coupled with intense fear of the teacher. Instilling such fear can have long term effects in the affected children's attitude to life.
Even a punishment like making children write a sentence 100 or 200 times serves no purpose.Regarding physical punishments likes making children stand for whole day outside the class or near principals make naughty children more adamant and naughtier.
Some children will have the ability to learn but their family problems may lead him\her to get into wrong paths . So its responsibility of a teacher to look upon each and every child s body language and his problems .
corporal punishments even lead to fatal problems like death.Some of the cases are

• Arpit Kavadia was a class 12 student at the Alok Sansthana School in Udaipur,India. He was severely beaten up by Indra Samar, a Sanskrit teacher of the school on 26th July, 2007 for having kept his legs on a table. He succumbed to his injuries and died on 2nd August, 2007 in General Hospital, Udaipur. The police registered a case against Indra Samar under section 302 of the Indian Penal Code.

• Ramu Abhinav, was a 16 year old class 10 student at Velammal Matriculation Higher Secondary School,in Chennai, India. He had committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan of his room on 12th July,2003 because he was stripped and severely beaten up by his mathematics teacher Kannappan in full view of his class mates. In his suicide note he said that "he was afraid of going to school and that he would do anything to avoid going to school". The teacher Kannappan was later arrested by the police.

• Jagroop Singh was a 15 year old class 10 student at the Senior Secondary School(Pakhowal) in Ludhiana,Punjab,India. He was severely beaten up by his teacher Jatinder Kaur on 12th July,2002.He later succumbed to his injuries and died. The police had registered an FIR and booked the teacher Jatinder Kaur for murder.The teacher was later arrested on 20th July,2002. The teacher Jatinder Kaur was later granted bail and transferred to Lehal Secondary School in Khanna, Punjab, India. The case is still pending in Indian Courts.

• A mother of a girl was arrested by the police for having beaten and hanged her 12 year old daughter in a village in Jodhpur,India. The girl had reportedly demanded to go to school. Her mother had gotten enraged at this and beat her with a rolling pin. When she saw that her daughter had become unconscious, she hanged her from the ceiling with a rope to make it appear like a suicide.

• Private Frederick John White, who was flogged to death at Cavalry Barracks, Hounslow in 1847.