Why is Writing used as punishment (class discussion) ;)

Why is writing used as punishment?

Writing is used as punishment because it is a hard task. When you’re just starting school your nervous because you are adjusting to a new environment and meeting new people. But, now your new teacher– who you know nothing about– wants you to read in front of the whole class. People are self-conscious. They care about what other people think of them. Therefore, one may read too slowly, too fast, or miss pronounce words. But, it is not the tempo of the reading or the miss pronunciation of words that one may worry about. It is the thought “Someone might think I’m slow” “What if someone pick on me” “All the class is going to do is laugh at me.” It is that perception that is built in children minds that make them grow up to be college students that do not see writing as “ flexible, exciting, and creative” (Holt, 26), or “.. An art” (Aronowitz, 40). Teachers force children to look up every word and to write a summary on everything. Where I’m I getting at? Writing is like a muscle if you keep working at it you get stronger and more confident. You stop improving you lose the ability to perform excellent work. Writing is something we need and as little children we were required to perform it correctly. So much to the point where you can start to even hate the idea of a sentence, a paragraph, a story, a book……Writing is used for punishment because majority of students do not want to read or hear about a book; much less write about it, because it has been practiced since pre-K. With writing there are always rules and structures to go by. You can create a painting and put a line dead in the middle. It will still be called an art piece. Whether that “art piece” is pretty or not is up to you. You write a sentence and have grammatical error it is called an improper sentence and there are no if, ands, or buts about it. It’s WRONG. Therefore, if punishments are penalties and supposed to be disliked then why not use something the majority of students prefer not to do?

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