The Danger In Corporal Punishment: Sad News As Student Dies During Scuffle With Labour Prefect

The Labour Prefect of Iju Junior Grammar School, Old Akute road, Iju, Ridwan Moshood, 13, has been arrested by the police from Red House, Iju Divisional Headquarters, for allegedly killing a student of Iju Obawole Grammar School identified as Femi Oyekunle. It was gathered that Oyekunle slumped and died during a scuffle with the Labour Prefect on Tuesday. While explaining the circumstance that led to the death of Oyekunle, Moshood said: “I met him and one other student on top of a mango tree behind the principal’s office and I ordered them to get down. As soon as they got down, Oyekunle confronted me and before I knew what was happening he gave me a blow’.’ Narrating further Moshood said as soon as he hit Oyekunle back in retaliation, he fell down and fainted said he poured water on Oyekunle before teachers and other students came and rushed him to a private hospital. When reporters visited the two schools which are located in the same compound, the atmosphere was relatively calm with students and teachers going about their academic activities on Thursday. Attempt to speak to the Principal of Iju Junior Grammar School, Mr. Adebiyi Emmanuel, was unsuccessful as he was said to have gone to the district office while his counterpart at Iju Obawole Grammar School, Mr. Omolewa Emmanuel, was said to have gone to SCID, Panti in connection with the incident. Father of the deceased Mr. Idowu Oyekunle, resigned himself to fate when our reporter met him this morning. He simply said it is God that gives and takes life. The case has been transferred to Homicide Section of Panti, Yaba, Lagos for further investigation

THE ARTICLE BELOW IS AS A RESULT OF THIS SAD NEWS The concept of discipline through physical punishment has been around way back in history. When children misbehave, parents might give them a good spanking in order to punish them, but now the society is starting to question whether hitting one’s kid is the best form of action to take. Corporal punishment is a “form of physical punishment that involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer.” Some studies have shown a correlation between corporal punishment and the eventual mental disorders people acquire as adults. A renowned psychiatrist, John Bradshaw, in his most recent published book, “Reclaiming Virtue,” explored the potential harms and long term damages corporal punishment has on children. “I believe it is the enemy of moral intelligence and also the cause of great deal of cruelty and violence in the world,” said Bradshaw. Even though common punishments such as slapping, spanking, choking, shaking and ear pulling have a long standing history, going over the edge is the precise danger of corporal punishment. Often, parents or even senior students in schools who are punishing the kids cross the line between discipline and abuse. What might have started off as a friendly reminder for the child to not misbehave sometimes turn into a uncontrolled abuse that could lead to potential psychological damage. Various studies and psychological analysis demonstrate that one reason parents/senior students tend to spank kids is to take revenge on their own child for the hurt they suffered. The abusive parents/seniors generally had a hard childhood, often victims of abusive parents. Over years, these repressed hurt have transferred its outlet to be taken out on other children. And the abused children grow up to have the same desire to beat his or her own kids,even other people's kids and this leads to a never ending cycle that many want to stop. FOR EXAMPLE ME OME Many times, the abused children do not see themselves as victims because kids think very highly of their parents and sometimes these senior students and view them as godlike. So, to justify the beating and abuse from them, young children view themselves as bad, and parents as good. Furthermore, studies have shown corporal punishment increases the chance of a child’s improper psychological development and could most definitely lead to future mental disorder and illnesses