Corporal punishment leads to dropouts
Peshawar :September 01: Speakers at a workshop here on Saturday said that corporal punishment left deep psychological and physical impacts on students and was one of the major factors of school dropouts.
The daylong workshop on elimination of corporal punishment was organised by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child at Provincial Institute for Teacher Education (PITE).
The speakers stressed the need for changing corporal punishment with problem-solving mechanism and alternative methods of guidance.
Around 100 education department officials, instructors and teachers from the Elementary & Secondary Education Department, Peshawar attended the workshop.
Sparc Programme Manager Imran Takkar highlighted corporal punishment, its types and its negatives impacts on children. He also discussed reasons of corporal punishment and alternatives to it.
Sparc National Manager Imtiaz said that because of the fear of corporal punishment, students often played truant from schools.
Man killed in road accident: One person was killed and seven others sustained injuries when a speeding car collided with a passenger coach near Dargai in Malakand Agency on Saturday, sources said.
The sources said that a passenger coach (8390) was heading to Batkhela from Dargai when a speeding car (AUR-8715) collided with it. A man identified as Rehmat Ali, resident of Swat, was killed on the spot while seven others were injured.The news.
