Very interesting article about corporal punishment over on Time.com – here’s an excerpt:
Teachers say they resort to physical punishment because of the inherent problems of India’s public education system, specifically, the immense challenge of maintaining control of huge classes of unruly children. “Most children in my school are criminal-minded,” says Dr. S.C. Sharma, the principal of a government school in South Delhi. “We have caught them stealing fans from classrooms and even the iron grills from the windows. How do you discipline such kids?” In Sharma’s school the teacher-student ratio is 1:63, compared with a recommended ratio of 1:35.
Read the rest of the article here.
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