Corporal punishment does not help

CORPORAL punishment in schools has been ongoing for a long time. Teachers have eluded the long arm of the law handing out various methods of discipline “for the good of the students”.

In Standard 2 (early 1960s), a relief teacher used a long ruler (normally used for pointing out things on the blackboard) to hit my head because I was slow to answer a question. I told my parents and my father wrote a letter to the teacher. The next day, my class teacher was back and she gave the letter to the relief teacher who apologised to me.