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School Canning In Singapore
Caning is also used as a form of corporal punishment in primary and, especially, secondary schools to maintain strict discipline in school and is only applicable to male students. The punishment is administered formally in the British schoolboy caning style.
The Ministry of Education encourages schools to punish boys by caning for relatively serious offences, such as fighting, smoking or vandalism. Students are not normally caned for minor offences such as forgetting to bring or do homework or falling asleep during lessons. The punishment may be administered only by the Principal or Vice-Principal, or by a specially designated and trained 'Discipline Master', usually in the Principal's office. At most schools, caning comes after detention but before suspension in the hierarchy of penalties.
Under Ministry regulations, the punishment should not exceed a maximum of 6 strokes (the majority of canings range from 1-3 strokes), using a light rattan cane, typically administered to the student's buttocks over his trousers, with the boy bending over a desk or chair
Certain schools have special practices for caning, such as making the student change into PE attire for caning, or tucking a protective item into the student's waistband to protect the lower back from mis-stroke. Sometimes the student may be caned in front of an assembly of the whole school population on the stage (known as public caning) or in front of his class (known as class caning), to serve as a warning to potential offenders and to shame the student. Some schools implement a demerit points system, whereby students are automatically caned after accumulating a certain number of demerit points for a wide range of offences.
The majority of students caned are aged 14-16 . The Ministry of Education recommends that the student receive counselling before and/or after his caning, to avoid any danger of psychological harm.
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