CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 102, 1 May 1936, Page 6

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.

T]iore arc more ways of punishing a child than by strapping. Some of these ways are better than strapping, and some are a lot worse. For instance, take the ca6e of the poor child born lacking the average amount of brains. This child is often and tormented by teachers until (being usually supersensitive) his life becomes almost unbearable. Then there is the case of the clever child who perhaps omits to do his homework one evening. He is either strapped or kept late at school, which often causes a child to become rebellious. I could state many cases in ray own family when my children (who have all a good behaviour record at school and all, but one, have never been lower than fourth place in class) have been cruelly hurt by something the teachers have said. I certainly agree with "Ultra-Modern Boy" when he says that the masters use the cane to teach the children what they are incapable of teaching themselves, and I think most of the children could teach the teachers a lesson in manners. A sensitive nature is very often a refined nature, and my opinion is that if the teachers were more sensitive themselves they could understand the children better and there would be less punishment, corporal or otherwise. MOTHER OF NLS T E.