Corporal punishment

Let me applaud and endorse the views expressed by Sir Frank Peters about corporal punishment. It is sad that most teachers do not know about the UN Convention on the Rights of Children. The teachers require a thorough orientation to increase their awareness levels. The authorities can think of introducing a feedback system through which the outgoing students of a class can give an assessment of the teachers who taught them during the year under review. A dispassionate assessment of the feedback will help in improving the system.
It was Rousseau who began his educational classic Emile with the words “God makes all good, but it is men who meddle with them and they become evil.” Every teacher should keep this remark in his or her mind before coming to judgment on students' (mis)behaviour. A fine understanding of students' viewpoints will make the schools a better and safer place for the children.
I have often found during my interaction with teachers that almost all of them are ignorant of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children (UNCRC). It is therefore highly gratifying that our erudite judge has called for enacting a child rights code.