Malaysia is to revive caning in schools to curb discipline problems among pupils, three years after making moves to ban corporal punishment, a minister said.
Malaysia is to revive caning in schools to curb discipline problems among pupils, three years after making moves to ban corporal punishment, a minister said.
The government made the decision to revive caning last month and it will issue specific guidelines on how to implement the punishment, deputy education minister Wee Ka Siong told AFP.
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"We need to take precautions because students nowadays are not like students those days -- they are 'too creative' in breaching the rules now," Wee said.
In 2006, the government said it was planning to ban public caning in schools, where the punishment is administered on the buttocks or the palm of the hand.
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