Physical punishment in schools

Dr. Sorif Khan: Corporal punishment is still being practiced in the classrooms, as Sir Frank Peters predicted. I have received many phone calls from the upset parents who were telling me that there has been no change in the teachers’ attitude and they continue to beat the students, as if they are above the law. After all, they are the ‘highly-respected’ teachers -the supreme power in a classroom.

Many teachers who are punishing the students physically are academic failures with no teaching abilities or training of any kind and undeserving of the honourable title of a teacher. My request is- punish the Head Teachers and teachers who don’t abide by the law and send them to jail, if necessary. Such ‘teachers’ will only bring disgrace to this noble profession.