“If School Allowed It, I Would Have Flogged Your Child…”
A teacher wrote this in a pupil’s communication book: “If not that the school said we shouldn’t flog, I would have punished your child…” Pause. Because that one sentence is not just a complaint. It is a window. Into the teacher’s mind. Into the school system. Into what many classrooms are quietly dealing with. What is really going on here? Many teachers were trained in environments where flogging was normal. So for them, discipline and flogging are closely linked. Take flogging away, and suddenly, they feel like something is missing. Like: “How do I control this class now?” So when a teacher says something like this, what you are really hearing is: “I don’t know what else to do.” Now, let’s add the full picture This teacher is: new in the school not up to two weeks joined in the third term That is pressure! The third term is not the time to be finding your feet. Everything is fast. Expectations are high. So what happens? When people are under pressure, they fall back on what they ...