It's very easy for teachers to punish students 4 wrong doing.but they alway dn't knw d consequences.especially in cases where people get punish under the sun,which is the easiest form of developing skin cancer.cancer kills as much as aid n malaria in our present day

You re right man

An african man doesn't care about abuse. Discipline is Discipline. Its no crime.

lost cause. you try to teach the difference and they just start in with the whole "the bible says" line. i have tried and given up

You cant chang people's minds about this one.
I've been flogged with canes,belts,wires,been beaten with shoes,slippers,sticks etc at home and in school(i went to a military school),i suffered. Apart from the general floggings,the punishments were . . . crazy. There was lying under the sun for hours,crawlin on your knees around the school(and there were stones on the ground),and after just a few minutes my knees would tear and get bloody,and then there was my favorite,rolling. A soldier would be on one end and another soldier would be on the other. The student/s lie on the field,water is poured on them,and they roll from one end to the other(while being flogged by the soldiers on both ends when they get there),stones in the ground piercing their clothes,it's terrible really.
A lot of nigerians have the misconception that the harder you flog a child,the more likely that child is to be good,etc. What they don't know is that after a while we get used to it and the floggin doesnt really mean anything. There are usually more effective ways of disciplining kids.

I agree with poster. Punishment and abuse are two different things.

Admit it or not the instances of 'brutal abuse' of kids by parents and teachers in the name of 'correction' are fast diminishing. I guess education has a lot to do with this advancement.