SCHOOL PUNISHMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 4

SCHOOL PUNISHMENT

NEW REGULATIONS

CANTERBURY DISTRICT

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day

Boys and girls attending schools in the Canterbury Education Board district will no longer receive corporal punishment for offences associated with their school work. This is laid down definitely in new regulations which have been issued by the board and which are designed to tighten up considerably the existing regulations. Corporal punishment will in future be administered only for cases of serious misconduct and an oflieial record will be kept of all occasions on which it

is- applied.

The most drastic' change in the new regulations is that abolishing punishment for school work. The full regulations, which will apply to all schools under the jurisdiction of the board, have been issued as an instruction to teachers. They are as follows:

1. Corporal punishment of girls is prohibited.

2. Corporal punishment of boys is prohibited except for serious misconduct. No boy shall be punished for school work.

3. In all cases corporal punishment should be administered only by headteachers, who are, however, given authority to delegate this power to experienced assistants.

4. The head-teacher shall keep a record of all cases of corporal punishment, showing -the extent and the reason therefor, but not the name of the boy concerned. The record for any one year may be destroyed after a subsequent inspection . visit to the school. ! 5. Head-teachers will be held re-

sponsible for any breach of these regulations by an assistant unless he (the head-teacher) can show that the assistant has acted in a manner contrary to his instructions.