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should kenyan teachers spare the rode and spoil the child

putting in mind the kind of unrest that is taking place in Kenyan schools,that is students going on strike and burning of school property and worst still their own belongings.What is your opinion on this .My take on this is that canning in schools should be introduced.This will instill discipline in students and a sense of respect to both teachers and fellow students.Since the abolition of canning in schools the number of indiscipline cases has risen/gone up.This is attributed to carelessness and don't care behavior among students,there is a common term that students use in swahili"kwani hawa ma odijoh watadu"what will this teachers do "waishie"let them go.the students do this intentionally knowing that they wont be punished in anyway.Parents at times they are to blame in this kind of affair.They normally come to the rescue of thier children even if they are on the wrong side.Actually 'mtoto alelewavyo, ndiovyo akuavyo"if you raise your child in an environment of indiscipline so will be the child,and likewise if the child is raised in an environment of dicipline and self respect,so she be.On this note i support his excellency mwai kibaki on his proposal to introduce "kiboko' in schools to curb this rampant cases of indiscipline.

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Permalink Reply by Gideon boot on August 1, 2008 at 5:49pm

I'm for it, It was canned so should they. wachapwe wapate adabu.
lakini nonetheless, we can't fail to determine why the current mishap started, and we can't blame it on the abolition of canning in schools.

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Permalink Reply by Oness on August 3, 2008 at 4:28pm

it should be reintroduced because without discipline, not many students will be able to make it academically. It was banned in 2000 when i was in Form 2 and i must tell you we started growing horns knowing nobody will cane ya.

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Permalink Reply by Norah on August 5, 2008 at 11:02am

bible says teach you children the way they should go when they are young and when they grow old they will not depart from the truth. Ofcorse teaching him the right way goes together with spanking kidogo and always when you are doing that first make the kid understand why you are purnishing them. Even GOd purnishes us sometimes for wrong doing.
The reason we have all this going on its coz the parents /teachers are not doing very well in training the kids the right way since when they are little. So yes lets reintroduce canning back in school and at home too. But my word of advice if you are angry wait till you calm down that way hautachapa uuwe but will chapa to discipline.
ITs not too late to pick up the broken pieces and put them together.And also there are other ways to discipline like what i hear they do in Stato. Incorporate all this forms of discipline... and also pray for them coz maombi pia changes things.

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Permalink Reply by pablo on August 5, 2008 at 9:01pm

kuchapa si dawa coz sisi tuligoma juu ya kuchapwa. principal wetu hakuwa anajua kiboko alikuwa anatumia pipes ama anakuchapa physical. vile wanaviochapwa ndivyo wanakua vichwa ngumu