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Corporal Punishment, a topic on debate in the nation

I am working in the Civil Service after 17 years of education in the school, college and institute.  Presently, when I lean back to the memory of my school days, it worries me to send my child to the school. Right after the whistle of morning wake up call for the jogging till last blow of whistle to put off the light in the night, it will be a “snake hiding” game for   students from the pounce of eagle teachers in the school. Even lying on the bed with deep sleep has to be maintained mindfulness of uncertainty kicks and sticks coming to you.  Those days we will change the direction of your way or almost go hiding below the road while seeing teacher coming on your way. 

Nonetheless, I tried reflecting more than it as a mere punishment. I concluded that it has immensely taught us of the traditional discipline apart from the subjects that are taught in the classroom in making realization of the human values.  If we complain about such situation to our parents back at home we will get with the response that you don't enjoy the result without adversary. One can just imagine how students are being systematically taught to be a strong. 

During those days, respects to parents, teachers, elders and compassion and love towards younger ones are being inculcate without being have to taught separately.  I see so much value in this that our forefathers have passed it to us. It is called as 'Tha Damtshe Lay Jumday'   If you do not live up to this expectation, people will make fun and say that kid is a product to judge the parent and students is to judge the teacher. Therefore, our parents will never support you even if you are right in a certain ways and being punished by teachers in the school. 

I can't deny that there is problems associated with corporal punishment when it is used excessively, but I am being quite surprise now students started suing teachers even for cupping their ears and for one or two sticks to correct their mistakes. We will have only a few students into drugs and those students will be also put into strict regimes for recovery. Thus, there were less people who were into drugs or other substances like alcoholism. At least students become human even if they are not good at studies. They will be able find their own ways to stand on their own feet. 

Now with the ban of corporal punishment I am eager to see if the society has  improved compared to the past.  Today, there are not only many reports and incidents of drug abusers, gang fight and drop out from the school which becomes more liability to the governments and parents.  Those days kids and students were considered more of investment to help parents and serve Tsa-Wa-Sum. Now is it becoming liability? or Are we bowing too deep for international pressure like human right policy?

Teacher profession has been trashed as students are more superior than them. Unlike in the past, teachers now started focusing mainly for teaching the subject matters and does not care what students are doing beyond the classroom.  In this ways I feel that students are deprived from becoming strong both emotionally and physically by excluding the corporal punishment in school thus resulting more harm to the society than helping to students in their life.

Though I am not that successful in my life, but I consider myself as a product of corporal punishment and still I will continue to prove myself  being product of  CP school in term of human even if not intellectually. 


(Views expressed are personal and doesn't reflect any individual or institution including organization I work for.)