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Some parents and teachers painted a catastrophic future for families and schools when the Children’s Act, 2001 outlawed corporal punishment.
The ultraconservative parents and teachers argued that corporal punishment was the most effective tool of “guiding children and students to desired behaviour”. They saw no other strategy of motivating students to adopt certain habits - cognitive and psychomotor - other than through corporal punishment.
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