The Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) has urged the government to ensure a ban on physical punishment in the educational institutions in the country, maintaining that corporal punishment was the major cause of dropout from schools, which was resulting in low literacy rate in the region.
SPARC Peshawar Programme Manager Imran Takkar said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government should come forward to legislate and make laws after debating in the provincial assembly to control the menace of subjecting children to physical punishment. Takkar told Pakistan Today that during the last six months, 41 severe cases of corporal punishment were reported to SPARC from different parts of the province.
The SPARC asked the Elementary and Secondary Education Department to make efforts to end the corporal punishment in the schools through legislation, awareness raising and teachers trainings on alternatives to corporal punishment.”
Its really a good initiatve by SPARC for raising the voice against corporal punishment. Perhaps our “beat the child” philosophies have failed to succeed in producing a healthy society and this trend of ignoring children and their rights will have to change if we are to hope for better citizens for Pakistan’s unpredictable tomorrow.
Rukhsana Parveen Khokhar
Training Officer Education
Save the Children Swat office
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