{"id":1670,"date":"2002-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/18\/2002-02-18-delhi-parents-and-teachers-oppose-corporal-punishment\/"},"modified":"2002-02-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-18T12:00:00","slug":"2002-02-18-delhi-parents-and-teachers-oppose-corporal-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/02\/18\/2002-02-18-delhi-parents-and-teachers-oppose-corporal-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Parents and Teachers Oppose Corporal Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/nonfram\/130202\/detCIT03.asp\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 12 2002: Corporal punishment may well be commonplace in schools, but teachers and academicians in their role as parents, strongly denounce the practice. This is the latest in a series of articles in the Hindustan Times denouncing corporal punishment. Vibha Parthasarthy, ex-principal of Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and ex-president of the National Commission for Women says she has never hit her children. &#8220;Punishment should not rob a child of his dignity and instill fear in him or her. I&#8217;ve dealt with a lot of stubborn children. Beating them only makes them more stubborn,&#8221; she says. Professor A N Maheswari, chairperson of the National Council for Teacher Education, says that he has never beaten his only daughter. &#8220;Hitting children is an abominable act because the child cannot retaliate at that time,&#8221; he says. On the training imparted to teachers to deal with difficult behavior, he says that dealing with children comes with empathy that comes from one&#8217;s cultural values. Dr Samir Parikh, a psychiatrist, says that he would never resort to physical abuse. This kind of punishment is dependent on the discretion of a human being rather than the mistake of a child, he says. Since they are the only ones that do not vote, that explains the apathy towards this issue, he adds.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 12 2002: Corporal punishment may well be commonplace in schools, but teachers and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}