School administrators have been called on to seek for knowledge on positive discipline and sensitize teachers on the long-term effects of corporal punishment.
Speaking during an engagement for teachers and pupils on corporal punishment by High Sound for Children a cchild rights organization, Mr.Moses Ibanda, the headteacher Brightway Nursery and Primary School in Bulenga, noted with concern the urgent need for continued sensitization of teachers on the effects of corporal punishment if the ban on the practice is to be enforced.
Whereas Corporal punishment was outlawed in Uganda way back in 1997, the practice still goes on in many schools and communities.
Mr. Ibanda stresses that corporal punishment which he equates to torture not only affects the learning abilities of a child but also kills the self-esteem and can lead to mental illness.
Applauding High Sound Children for the engagements, Ibanda called on the ministry of Education to partner with the civil society organizations, religious leaders and cultural leaders among other stakeholders to scale up sensitization of teachers and the general public on the effects of corporal punishment and the need to positively discipline children.
During the engagement, Margaret Naddamba, Apollo Mugume, among other pupils of Brightway Primary School discussed what Corporal punishment means and alternatively to corporal punishment.
