Legal Literacy - This article reviews the view of education as a world full of goodness and beauty, which faces challenges in the modern era with the complexity of social, legal and professional problems. The discussion focuses on the dilemma faced by teachers in enforcing discipline while meeting child protection demands. This article also explores the debate surrounding the use of physical punishment or corporal punishment as a method of discipline, which is often considered part of education but is contrary to child protection laws. By looking at legal cases, this article questions the boundaries between education and violence in the school environment.

Education from classical to modern times, society tends to consider education as a world full of values of goodness (ethics) and values of beauty (aesthetics), even extremely referred to as a world without flaws, because the world of education is a world to make humans more resilient, dignified and moral, so that humans will be able to survive in overcoming problems in their lives. Is it true that such an assumption still eksis in the world of education in the midst of an ever-changing world? 

In the midst of contemporary society, this assumption has undergone quite significant shifts along with social dynamics, which in reality the world of education is not a world free from problems, nor is it a world without flaws. But full of complex problems, both internal problems in the implementation of education itself, as well as external problems, so that it can hinder the educational goals to be achieved, namely to "..Educate the nation". 

Some of the above problem factors are intertwined and have not received serious attention from the government. This educational problem is actually not just a socio-economic problem, but also spreads to problems in the realm of law, which leads to uncertainty in the context of legal protection for teachers in the world of education. 

The uncertainty of legal protection for a teacher can be seen in several cases, for example, the case of honorary teacher Supriyani who served at SDN 4 Baito, South Konawe Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province (Sultra) is still viral on social media. Almost similar to similar cases, this can be seen through MA Decision No. 2024 K/PID.SUS/2009 and MA Decision No. 1554 K/PID.SUS/2013. 

Departing from the above case, the position of a teacher as an educator is often in a dilemmatic position, between professional demands and community treatment. On the one hand, they are required to be able to deliver students to achieve educational goals. But on the other hand, when teachers try to enforce discipline, they are confronted by the Child Protection Law. If they fail to enforce the discipline of their students and fail to deliver students to the achievement of educational goals, as educators teachers are often accused of being the root cause of the failure.