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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.

pharmagba:
Let me share my experience as well why you should be careful how you flog

I served in Adamawa State and I teach the ss1- ss1 maths. I am a no nonsense maths teacher, however and in every way maths must enter their skull. In my class there are fathers, I mean the dad is in ss3 and his first child is in ss1. Forget the age disparity i no send i flog papa and child some even older than me. Anybody that fails my test or refuses to do assignment is punished. I was the touchest, most dreaded teacher, but ironically I was also the most loved, maybe because the student felt at the back of myheart was a genuine love for them to become great in life.
my disposition to flogging changed one day when there was crises in the community between the natives . All of a sudden a biggle sound was heard the students respectfully bow and said 'excuse sir ' one after the other and walked out of the classroom while I was still teaching . The 'excuse sir' was not a permission in the real sense because they weren't waiting for my approval at all. Those that have bicycle mounted their bicycle and rode swiftly those without bicycle ran.
later in the evening I saw my students both young and old with painted face and with guns, matt et te and axe like warrior on the street. Some their axes was dripping with fresh human blood!! Even I learnt that some when they throw the axe they don't miss the target even if the target is on a moving bike,
when the crises was over and school resumed my orientation of flogging changed completely, so these are not ordinary student but warriors and it does take a dime for one to aim an axe at me if he so desires.

Chukazu:
Indiscipline shouldn't be tolerated doesn't mean you start flogging a child at will.
There are other ways to punish a child not flogging... some parents won't take it lying low and they have got every right

Flogging is just demeaning!

pharmagba:
Let me share my experience as well why you should be careful how you flog

I served in Adamawa State and I teach the ss1- ss1 maths. I am a no nonsense maths teacher, however and in every way maths must enter their skull. In my class there are fathers, I mean the dad is in ss3 and his first child is in ss1. Forget the age disparity i no send i flog papa and child some even older than me. Anybody that fails my test or refuses to do assignment is punished. I was the touchest, most dreaded teacher, but ironically I was also the most loved, maybe because the student felt at the back of myheart was a genuine love for them to become great in life.
my disposition to flogging changed one day when there was crises in the community between the natives . All of a sudden a biggle sound was heard the students respectfully bow and said 'excuse sir ' one after the other and walked out of the classroom while I was still teaching . The 'excuse sir' was not a permission in the real sense because they weren't waiting for my approval at all. Those that have bicycle mounted their bicycle and rode swiftly those without bicycle ran.
later in the evening I saw my students both young and old with painted face and with guns, matt et te and axe like warrior on the street. Some their axes was dripping with fresh human blood!! Even I learnt that some when they throw the axe they don't miss the target even if the target is on a moving bike,
when the crises was over and school resumed my orientation of flogging changed completely, so these are not ordinary student but warriors and it does take a dime for one to aim an axe at me if he so desires.

nanizle:
Flogging pupils under any circumstance should be criminalised. It is physical assault.

I know how that nonsense emotionally scarred me.



No civilized society flogs their students.

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.

DrMuzungu:
Touch my kid, and I will touch you. If my kid misbehaves, report it to me, and I will handle it.

Narldon:

makydebbie:
My own teacher will tell us to say "Thank you sir, God bless you sir" after flogging us. Mr Kazeem.

makydebbie:
Shut up, these students are humans, they've feelings, they break down at some point. Things in the house affect them, imagine losing your sibling, will you be happy in school? You're an idiot.

MhizzAJ:
You went to AFSS wow! What set?

MAJORBANKZ:
just look at how u showed ur stupidity in a public domain. Your parents must have mistaken to have sent u to school

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.

makydebbie:
Your English fit wake dead person. I can't deal.

makydebbie:
You'll definitely need to use the cane as some point. So it's needed, just not for it to be a routine or something. When they're always late to school, you've to cane or punish them.

snowden9:
AFSS PH 06/07 session. what about you?

IjeleNwa:
cane is a weapon to the body of students,it shouldn't be used. On tem,it like torture to their skin,there are other correctional means to use rather than flogging. It is modern day slavery to our selfs.

Give the child punishment,corpral punishment like frog jump,school/community service, etc.

Cane destroys the emotion of a child,they become broken.

We are Africans but must we be Africans?

makydebbie:
Go and teach for one month and come back to quote this. I can't argue.

jc4real:
They know you'll soon misbehave. They just want to flog you in advance.

makydebbie:
Your English fit wake dead person. I can't deal.