Ladela School Condemns Corporal Punishment

Kuni Tyessi

Ladela School has condemned the use of corporal punishment to discipline schoolchildren.

The school’s proprietress, Angela Ajala, who stated this in Abuja during the school’s graduation ceremony with the theme ‘Reinventing myself, charting the future’, said children understood punishment more when denied certain rights and privileges.

“We believe that if you can touch the heart of a child, it will be easy to touch the head, and other things will fall in place. So, as a school, we do not believe in corporal punishment,” argued Ajala. “There are ways we handle our children. For example, denying them things they love. If I know you love ICT, I will deny you of it for, say, a month.”

For the graduating students, Ajala noted that after going through an uncertain period due to the COVID-19 pandemic and “having gone through challenges, they had never seen before,” it was time for them to prepare for their future.