It’s not all right to rotan the children

I’M referring to the video, which went viral recently, of a mother of a secondary schoolgirl questioning a teacher for caning her daughter, and the report “Yes! It’s all right to rotan the kids!” (The Star, July 7). Sadly, my views seem to represent the minority.

In my opinion, the degree and severity of the 13-year-old schoolgirl’s punishment is way out of proportion to her action. Caning a child multiple times until there are marks and breaks in the skin amounts to physical violence and should never be accepted nor normalised.