School Asks Parents to Hit Their Children
Feb 18th 2007CarlChildren's Rights & Human Rights & New Zealand & Political
I run into this article today. A school in New Zealand has found an inventive way to bypass laws forbidding teachers from hitting students: it asks parents to do the hitting instead (it’s not illegal for parents to use corporal punishment).
I believe corporal punishment is an unacceptable way to try to teach children. Corporal punishment by parents should be illegal as well. Allowing corporal punishment of children is the same as saying children don’t have basic human rights.
Unfortunately corporal punishment is forbidden in only a few countries as I’ve written in an earlier post.
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