Ya, this is definitely true. I can't attest to children being that beaten badly in India, but when I taught at an elementary school in the Himalayas beating the students was common place. The first day I walked into a classroom I was given a bamboo stick by the child in charge of the class.
First I tried not resorting to the stick, then I would scare the students with the stick (by swinging at them and missing or stopping just short or their body), but eventually they learned I wouldn't actually hit them.
The class would occasionally get so bad that the child in charge of the class would go around and hit his own classmates.
Unfortunately they responded to the abuse and would quiet down.
I think it's all the culture. It goes back to how the parents discipline the kids and how primary school teachers discipline the students.
I don't believe in corporal punishment in any school, I think this problem can be solved in
First I tried not resorting to the stick, then I would scare the students with the stick (by swinging at them and missing or stopping just short or their body), but eventually they learned I wouldn't actually hit them. The class would occasionally get so bad that the child in charge of the class would go around and hit his own classmates.
Unfortunately they responded to the abuse and would quiet down.
I think it's all the culture. It goes back to how the parents discipline the kids and how primary school teachers discipline the students.
I don't believe in corporal punishment in any school, I think this problem can be solved in