School punishment
Sir,—l feel strongly about the comments of the Minister of Education, Mr Marshall, on punishment of pupils (September 23). As a teacher for a number of years in a school with a
“harmonious atmosphere,” we as a staff have already opted to discontinue corporal punishment — being a one-sided punishment and rarely used. To say that schools could also get by without forms of detention, picking up litter, and other menial tasks for those pupils who either consciously or subconsciously “test the system” and are disruptive both inside and out of the classroom is akin to saying that the Ministry of Transport could get by without the courts issuing monetary fines as a deterrent to various traffic offenders. An alternative put forward — to parade offending pupils in front of an assembly of staff and fellow pupils and have their problems “aired” — is, to me, a much more humiliating punishment than to clean windows or pick up litter. — Yours, etc..
E. P. DEN HARING. Port Robinson, September 24, 1986.
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