Insulting A Child Is Also Corporal Punishment
Making a student kneel down or stand for hours and pinching or slapping him or her could land teachers in trouble as all acts involving insult or humiliation to the child could soon be banned in schools.
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NCPCR Chairperson Shantha Sinha has written to all chief secretaries recommending that there should be no gradations while judging corporal punishment and noted that “small acts” should not be condoned as they actually lead to gross violations.
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The Commission has enlisted rapping on the knuckles, making students kneel down or stand up for long hours, sitting like a chair and beating up with a scale, pinching and slapping, locking up student alone in classrooms and making a child run in the school ground as forms of corporal punishment.
Among the more serious forms of violence against children that the Commission has taken note of are child sexual abuse, torture, and electric shocks.
It is good to see that some serious thought is being put in this issue. In addition to passing these laws, I think it should be made mandatory to provide a list of such laws to the parents at the time of school admission. The students should also be informed about their rights and existence of such laws. And Above all teachers need to be trained to be better teachers.
February 5, 2009
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