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Corporal punishment is not the answer

Nov 23, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
In his letter to Kaieteur News, Neil Adams falsely implies that without corporal punishment students will ‘hijack’ the class and the teacher will be ‘impotent’. He forgets that many teachers have never hit a student, seldom raise their voice, yet manage to control their students.
Why is he ignoring this third possibility? We need to look at what these teachers do and why they are successful and train others to emulate them, instead of going for the counter-productive quick fix that Mr. Adams favours.
Further, Mr. Adams says that the ‘wanton violence’ of American schools proves that corporal punishment is needed.
However, Department of Justice figures show that overall violence in US schools has fallen by half in the last two decades, the two decades with the least corporal punishment.
Imam Baksh

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