Teachers urged to stop corporal punishment for students

The Executive Director of LADELA school, Angela Ajala, has urged teachers to stop corporal punishment as a form of correcting and instilling discipline in students. Ajala stated this while speaking during the graduation of the school’s 2021 class in Abuja. Officers gunned down, ‘two majors’ kidnapped as bandits break into NDA Mpape demolition to continue […]

The Executive Director of LADELA school, Angela Ajala, has urged teachers to stop corporal punishment as a form of correcting and instilling discipline in students.

Ajala stated this while speaking during the graduation of the school’s 2021 class in Abuja.

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She argued that depriving students of activities they like most should be a starting point to correct their behaviours.

“Corporal punishment is not the way to go for students of today. There are ways of engaging them and we believe that when you touch the heart of a child, it will be easy to touch the head and other things will fall in place.

“As a school, we do not believe in corporal punishment and there are ways that we handle our children.

“We can deny them things we know they love. For a child that likes ICT, maybe for one month, deny them access to it by letting them know it is improper for them to enjoy such activity when they have done something bad,” she said.

She added that when a child is stopped from the privileges they enjoy, they would open up on the reason behind the action, and this would help to solve the problems right from the root.