How should we treat unruly children in schools? This is a question perennially raised by adults but rarely asked of children. Now that schools cannot resort to corporal punishment, alternative sanctions are needed, which are effective but which do not contravene children's legal or moral rights. This boook explores issues of discipline in schools within the framework of children's rights. It also traces the history of corporal punishment in schools and its abolition in terms of both law and practice.