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