If you must flog, don’t do that when you are provoked.

December 22, 2017
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Why Anambra teachers ponder sparing the rodThe sudden death of Mrs Makachi Rita, a teacher at Starlight Secondary School, Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State, after receiving strokes of the cane from the angry parent of one of her students, has continued to generate mixed reactions.

The deceased, a class mistress in charge of Senior Secondary School (SSS1) was said to have flogged a female student over negligence of assigned duty as well as insubordination.

The mother and a man, on receiving the report of the flogging from her daughter, were said to have rushed to the school where they allegedly beat the tutor to death.

In view of the ugly development, some teachers have said they would rather respond to students’ inappropriate behaviour through other punitive measures than caning them.

A teacher in one of public schools in the state, who simply identified herself as Ulunma, said it would be a folly for any teacher to continue flogging students after the pathetic story of their late colleague, Mrs Rita.

Source : DailyTrust

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