Teachers in public and private schools in Ogun State have been warned to put an end to corporal punishment as a way of correcting children in order to avoid being sanctioned.
The State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, said this Wednesday, during a meeting with the management Adeoye International Nursery and Primary School, Iyesi-Ota.
Arigbabu feared that canes being used in flogging may hit the pupil in sensitive parts of his body, thereby creating more problems for the school and even the State.
A teacher of the school, Mrs Taiwo Odunola, was said to have beaten a three-year old girl on the back of her, a development that had generated reactions from the mother of the child.
Speaking, Arigbabu stressed that the state government frowns at any corrective action that would inflict injury or pains on any child.
The Commissioner maintained that government would not condone actions that could drag the name of the State in the mud.
“I want to say here as the Commissioner that I am not happy to hear of this incident and we will not allow any act that would drag the name of the State in the mud. Schools should devise effective and humane methods of disciplining a child apart from corporal punishment”, the Commissioner said.
Arigbabu said corporal punishment could lead to reducing a child’s level of confidence, maiming or even death.
He advised that schools should work in tandem with the vision of the Governor Dapo Abiodun administration by being 21st century compliant in teaching and learning methods.
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