Beating students in India: FIR against teachers revives corporal punishment debate

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    FIR against teachers revives corporal punishment debate

    RANCHI: Schools in the city continue to practice corporal punishment despite laws prohibiting spanking at educational institutes. The July 11 incident, where an FIR was lodged against three teachers of a city school, brought back the case of seven-year-old Sujit Munda in February to light and revived the debate on whether corporal punishment is at all necessary to discipline a child. The state child rights department has written to the senior superintendant of police in Ranchi demanding proper inquiry into the corporal punishment case at Gurunanak Public School. Jharkhand State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (JSCPCR) wrote to SSP ...


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