Schools unsafe?
PA Hamilton Corporal punishment in schools is opposed by . the Year of the Child follow-up organisation, Committee for Children. The group will make submissions to the Minister of Education (Mr Wellington) that schools should be safe places for children rather than places of violence. Teachers were often unaware of a child’s background of domestic violence, the committee was told by its Children At Risk convener, Mrs Maxine Hodgson. Mrs Hodgson is also director, of Hamilton’s Parentline, a parent support organisation to counter child abuse. Other committee members expressed concern that in some cases corporal punishment was an expression of teacher tension rather than response to child behaviour.
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Press, 18 March 1982, Page 17
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