snowden9:
I'm a Batch A Stream 1 Corps member (Yea. Counting down weeks to my POP). I currently teach in a private school in rivers state. Nuff about all the intro. To the point now, shall we?
I experienced something today and I just thought i should share to all teachers(both corps members and full time teachers), intending teachers and intending corps members.

I had an SS1 economics class by 12pm and when I got to the class, few seconds in, the students didn't greet. I was expecting someone to save them and echo the routine class greeting so I wouldn't have to punish them (our proprietress have been sounding warning to us as of late to punish the students if we encounter any act of indiscipline from them. Not greeting a teacher qualified as an act of indiscipline). Someone finally called out for the class to greet. They all stood up to greet. Except one girl. I was a bit furious and i asked her why she didn't stand up and greet, she still bent her head on the desk without a reply and as expected, the 'Teacher dictator' in me(every teacher has it) wanted to call her out and give her some strokes of cane. I asked a student if the 'disobedient' girl was sick and the reply was 'No'. Now, i really got more pissed off and wanted to punish her but all of a sudden, i just ignored it, brushed it aside and went on with my teaching.

A few hours later, I was walking past the SS1 class and I saw a girl crying (a different girl),when I asked what happened, they told me one of their classmates mum that was pregnant lost her baby that's why she was crying. I came to know later that the other 'disobedient' girl of my economics class was crying at that time when I entered the class for the same reason that was why she didn't stand up to greet. On my own part, i had to praise myself for making the right decision not to punish her cos i know i wouldn't have been happy with myself if I had punished her and later found out that this was the reason why she didn't stand up to greet.

So my dear teachers, before you flog that student for coming late without listening to her reasons, do you know if she witnessed an altercation between her parents and she was the child trying to settle them? Before you flog him for failing, do you know if his guardian punished him by not feeding him all through yesterday just because he mistakenly broke a plate while washing? Meanwhile he had an exam to write the following day. Before you flog that child, do you know what's going on in the life of that child? Before you raise that cane above your head, ask yourself, 'Have i listened to this child?'

Listen.... It'll only take a minute.

Mariangeles:
Some of the children might even have health issues or terminally ill...just imagine flogging a child with a heart problem or an anaemic child

jc4real:


They know you'll soon misbehave. They just want to flog you in advance.

Iseoluwani:


I flogged some students last 2 weeks because they didn't pay the lesson fee, I flogged one on her neck region which ended up swollen up and trust parent na..

I beat another with eyes problem, she cried herself out till she ended at UCH UI

FOR THE PAST ONE WEEK NOW, I HAVEN'T FLOGGED students

Pat081:
nice one, if anything happens to d student d principal will b d 1st person to go to police station ooooooo

Mariangeles:
Some of the children might even have health issues or terminally ill...just imagine flogging a child with a heart problem or an anaemic child

urchmania:

I'm asthmatic, u could imagine d kind of hellish experience I passed through, remembering all this things bring tears to my eyes, I was flogged, punished to d extent I was panting. I remember when I was having an asthma attack in school, I didn't tell anyone, so my teacher flogged me mercilessly, I didn't want to go down Memory Lane cos it's a sad one for me

Pavore9:
A weak teacher hides behind caning.

SEMO007:






I had a teacher that would b flogging u and would ask u to say I love u

Darkseid:
I have made up my mind that when I have kids, no teacher will dare to flog them, that same way I won't flog other people's children.

GuntersChain:
go to a village school and flog a pupil, your life will never remain the same.

Mypeople2:
I look at your statement and laugh .It seems you have not seen students that do not want to learn and do not want others to learn.

makydebbie:
I swear, you're finished.

MAJORBANKZ:
Trash...even if my male student lost his ball, i won't tolerate any act of indiscipline.u are just a timid corper cause There's no moral justification for her disobedience.

DonPiiko:
What will happen?

nuggarito:
Senseless post, irrespective of whatever happens to a student, indiscipline in any form should never be tolerated. If she is sick or has any other bad situation at hand she should go home. The school is not an orphanage or a hospital to care for people, its a place of learning.

Pavore9:


Far from it. For a student who do not want to learn nor want others to is probably dealing with Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) caning will not address it but medication and counselling.

IjeleNwa:
Do they still flog students in this era?

Where is the civility in our exposure.

Pls report any school that flogs students.....to human right authorities or DM asap