{"id":7653,"date":"2009-04-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/21\/in-india-a-push-to-end-the-cruelty-of-corporal-punishment\/"},"modified":"2009-04-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T12:00:00","slug":"in-india-a-push-to-end-the-cruelty-of-corporal-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/04\/21\/in-india-a-push-to-end-the-cruelty-of-corporal-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"In India, A Push to End The Cruelty of Corporal Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/2009\/04\/22\/stories\/2009042256930100.htm Back\">www.thehindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, April 22, 2009: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is starting a movement across the country, hold meetings with all school heads to convey that no form of corporal punishment will be tolerated. &#8220;These meetings will have to be held ahead of the new academic year,&#8221; Commission chairperson Shanta Sinha told The Hindu on Tuesday. The move followed the recent incident in which 11-year-old Shanno Khan of a Delhi school was brutally punished by her teacher. &#8220;Unless we learn to respect children and treat them as equals, the issue cannot be resolved.&#8221; Prof. Sinha says.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, the NCPCR wrote to all Chief Secretaries, stressing the need for abolishing this practice. &#8220;&#8230;It is being noticed that corporal punishment in schools, both government as well as private, is deeply ingrained as a tool to discipline children and as a normal action. All forms of corporal punishment are a fundamental breach of human rights,&#8221; Ms.Sinha stated in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Things have improved little in the last two years, but there are good signs. &#8220;There were a few instances of teachers taking a proactive step to address the issue in States such as Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. Idukki district in Kerala was declared corporal punishment-free. Unfortunately, we did not receive much feedback at the official level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: Hinduism Today recently published an educational insight on raising children to be confident and positive, without corporal punishment. If you are a loving parent or an educator, this is an invaluable tool. It can be downloaded here: https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/resources\/parenting.pdf<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jane Nelsen, an expert on child-rearing consulted for the creation of the insight, asks: &#8220;Where did we ever get the crazy idea that children will do better if we first make them feel worse? Please absorb that statement. It doesn&#8217;t make any sense at all&#8212;yet it is the basis for all punishment.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thehindu.com CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, April 22, 2009: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) is starting a,&#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-7653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653","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=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}