Corporal punishment, a shame
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It is appalling and disgraceful that children in school still suffer the inhumane horrors of corporal punishment. I carry a physical scar on the back of my left leg as a constant reminder of how brutal and cruel teachers and corporal punishment can be. In those days corporal punishment was accepted as 'normal', something that we all experienced and lived through. My 'crime' was that I had a slightly longer hair than most of the students, not as a protest or fashion but simply because my family could not spend for the barber at that time. No one paid much attention to the horrors of corporal punishment until Sir Frank Peters spoke out in a loud voice, brought the subject with all its ugliness to the surface. But rogue 'teachers' continue this repulsive practice. Corporal punishment needs to be recognised for what it is: a scourge on society and a violation of human rights; and it must not be tolerated even in the mildest form. My heart bleeds every time I read a news report about any child being beaten by a teacher.
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