Teachers’ ignorance of corporal punishment leads pupils to suffer

Punishment (read aggression, read corporal punishment) is not and never was the best way to correct mistakes. PHOTO| FILE


By  Jacob Mosenda

Senior Journalist with The Citizen

Mwananchi Communications Limitted

What you need to know:

  • All the incidents have happened when there was Government Notice No. 24 of 2002 that directed that a schoolchild should be caned on the hand or on the buttocks with a light, flexible stick

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