Corporal Punishment
31 Oct
A new investigation by BBC Africa Eye, for BBC World Service, has uncovered shocking cases of corporal punishment in schools in Kenya. Despite being outlawed in 2001, physical punishment is still being used – sometimes leading to fatal consequences. In ‘Taught to Fear: Corporal Punishment in the Classroom’, the BBC spoke to young victims and the families seeking…
20 May 2023
“Our students are currently taking advantage of the fact that the school has stopped all forms of corporal punishment in Lagos State. They are now misbehaving in an uncontrollable manner. Some of them are more daring since the management of the school sacked one of us for spanking a disobeying child,” a teacher in a FESTAC school where the 43-year-old teacher was sacked, Mrs Shola Agidigan lamented.
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