Your weekend paper said “Bring Back Rod”, a sentiment of the stakeholders.
I am old school and agree that we must not spare the rod, a biblical advice to start with.
Today, I say no to corporal punishment. My reason is simple: our teachers simply don’t know where to stop. A lot of them don’t know how to dish out punishment.
Even with corporal punishment banned now, a few teachers are continuing with actually physically punishing, and in some cases hurting little children out of frustration when they discover their own inadequacies in the job.
So, this topic is better left out of any education summits or workshops at GPH.
Source: Donald Singh
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