types of corporal punishments in schools

There are three types of corporal punishments in schools.Physical Punishments:

1. Making the children stand as a wall chair (Goda Kurchee in Telugu), 2. Keeping the school bags on their heads, 3. Making them stand for the whole day in the sun, 4. Make the children kneel down and do the work and then enter the class room5. Making them stand on the bench, 6. Making them raise hands, 7. Hold a pencil in their mouth and stand, 8. Holding their ears with hands passed under the legs, 9. Tying of the children's hands, 10. Making them to do sit-ups (Gunjeelu), 11. Caning and pinching and 12. Twisting the ears (Chevulu pindadam)

Emotional Punishments:

1. Slapping by the opposite sex2. Scolding abusing and humiliating3. Label the child according to his or her misbehaviour and sent him or her around the school4. Make them stand on the back of the class and to complete the work.5. Suspending them for a couple of days6. Pinning paper on their back and labeling them "I am a fool", "I am a donkey" etc.7. Teacher takes the child to every class she goes and humiliates the child.8. Removing the shirts of the boys.

Negative Reinforcement

1. Detention during the break and lunch.2. Locking them in a dark room3. Call for parents or asking the children to bring explanatory letters from the parents4. Sending them home or keeping the children outside the gate5. Making the children sit on the floor on the classroom.6. Making the child clean the premises.7. Making the child run around the building or in the playground.8. Sending the children to principals.9. Making them to teach in the class.10. Making them to stand till the teacher comes.11. Giving oral warnings and letters in the diary or calendar12. Threatening to give TC for the child.13. Asking them to miss games or other activities14. Deducting marks.15. Treating the three late comings equal to one absent.16. Giving excessive imposition.17. Make the children pay fines.18. Not allowing them into the class.19. Sitting on the floor for one period, day, week and month.20. Placing black marks on their disciplinary charts.

Normal range of punishments, which continue unabated, are caning, beating knuckles with stick or steel scale, kneeling down, standing on the bench and so on. Wall chairs (sitting as if on the chair without any one against the wall for half-an-hour to one hour), wall chairs plus a school bag on the head or thighs which cause more physical pain, running ten to twenty rounds around the school building or in the ground and sit-ups numbering hundreds are other range of punishments. Writing impositions for more than fifty times within a short time, which is physically not possible to complete, is a new type of punishment. If an English medium students talks in Telugu, he or she will be made to write, "I do not speak in Telugu" for fifty to hundred times, a mental punishment too.