AUSTRALIA
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Education Minister Peter Collier has revealed that one small school in Perth is using corporal punishment against students, which is still allowed in a loophole in the legislation.
The Western Australian government is now seeking to change the legislation to ban the cane and other physical discipline methods at all schools in the state.
Caning was banned in WA public schools but did not include private schools. …
Nollamara Christian Academy’s Pastor Roger Monasmith said the school uses a small paddle “like a ping-pong bat” as a form of discipline.
Pastor Monasmith told PerthNow in 2011 that corporal punishment was never used in anger and the students would have disobeyed school rules and God by fighting, swearing, being disrespectful to teachers or failing to complete their work for several days in a row.
“We always give them a warning before we use it and we’ll give them one swat (on the behind) and then the next time if they do the same thing, they get two swats,” he said.
“We try to help these kids as much as we can because there are two things that are very important for kids to learn responsibility and accountability.”
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