It's hard to believe it's almost been a year since the High Court abolished corporal punishment in all schools. It seems only like week that crusader Sir Frank Peters was beating the drum and waking the nation to the untold sufferings of thousands of children at the hands of some evil tormentors commonly kniwn as schoolteachers.Many thousands of adults (I included) can readily recall their worst days at school when they were beaten mercilessly for something silly and trivial like wearing long hair. They, however, can be considered the 'lucky' ones. There are other children who ended their abject misery by committing suicide.
It's hard to imagine this evil practice has flourished for so many decades and that foreign and local alleged child protection agencies like, UNICEF, Save the Children, Oxfam , World Vision and the National Human Right Commission among them have stood by in silence, watched from the sidelines, allowed it to happen for years, and are still doing nothing to help offset the inhuman cruelty still inflicted daily.
I agree entirely with Sir Frank when he says that a notional mind change is urgently needed and that must happen soon. There is no better and more appropriate place for this to begin than in the classroom.
It's hard to imagine this evil practice has flourished for so many decades and that foreign and local alleged child protection agencies like, UNICEF, Save the Children, Oxfam , World Vision and the National Human Right Commission among them have stood by in silence, watched from the sidelines, allowed it to happen for years, and are still doing nothing to help offset the inhuman cruelty still inflicted daily.
I agree entirely with Sir Frank when he says that a notional mind change is urgently needed and that must happen soon. There is no better and more appropriate place for this to begin than in the classroom.
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