Social media customers are blaming poor parenting following an incident that came about at a college in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday 7 September which noticed a learner setting the performing principal’s car alight.
KZN LEARNER TORCHES ACTING PRINCIPAL’S CAR
The Grade 10 learner from Northbury Park Secondary School in Northdale in Pietermaritzburg, KZN, had been reprimanded by the performing principal for carrying a telephone to high school which was, in flip, confiscated.
According to a video shared by an IOL journalist on Twitter, the disgruntled pupil returned to high school with a petroleum bomb and set the performing principal’s car alight.
A video of the incident, which reveals among the employees members making an attempt to extinguish the hearth, has gone viral on social media.
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IS THE BANNING OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT TO BLAME?
Another incident of an analogous nature came about at one other faculty in KZN the place learners from Ndengetho High School within the West of Durban torched their faculty after their telephones have been confiscated throughout an inspection.
With the newest viral faculty incident setting tongues wagging on social media, tweeps weighed in with their views. For many, the incident is a results of the abolishment of corporal punishment in colleges and South African households.
“Time to bring back parental hiding so that kids can get manners,” one Twitter person wrote.
In 1996, the South African Schools Act, below Section 10, banned the usage of corporal punishment in colleges. Meanwhile, in 2019, The Citizen reported {that a} 2017 High Court judgment outlawing corporal punishment in non-public houses had been upheld.
Examples of corporal punishment embrace smacking youngsters (even evenly), pinching them, throwing objects at them, forcing them to face in uncomfortable positions, and never permitting them to eat meals or use the bathroom.
WHAT ABOUT POOR OR GENTLE PARENTING?
Another tweep advised that some mother and father are too busy clubbing and partying as a substitute of implementing self-discipline within the residence. While one other blamed the “soft or gentle parenting”.
Good To Know describes mild parenting as a peaceable and optimistic method to parenting. It is classed as a parenting type that promotes a relationship together with your youngsters primarily based on willingness and selections, reasonably than calls for and guidelines made by a mother or father.
The concept of mild parenting has been a sizzling matter on social media for some years, as some tweeps really feel that it creates entitled and disrespectful youngsters who assume throwing tantrums is appropriate. Some tweeps, who have been raised by corporal punishment, have argued that they “turned out fine” — News24 studies.
However, Save the Children South Africa (SCSA) CEO Steve Miller, advised the publication that corporal punishment impacts a baby’s mind.
“It could also be harmful to development, affecting a range of health and social outcomes. Unbelievably, such violence is seldom considered abuse,” he says.
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