CANING, PADDLING AND SPANKING: OFFICIAL RULES FROM CURRENT SCHOOL HANDBOOKS

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Corporal punishment regulations of individual schools or school districts --
External links to present-day school handbooks

With personal comments by C. Farrell

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ANGUILLA: public schools

Road Primary School, South Hill
No nonsense at this establishment -- it gives a list of offences "which will result in lashes corporal punishment" given by the Principal (pictured). Students failing to attend detention assignment, too, "will receive lashes".

AUSTRALIA: private schools
Jubilee Christian College, Atherton, Queensland
An objective of the College is to instil "the need for discipline and correction, including corporal correction" (no details given).
King's Christian College, Gold Coast, Queensland (Alternative link)
"Corporal correction" (no details furnished) may be used in cases of deliberate misconduct. This is archived from early 2003 -- the current website doesn't mention punishment at all.
Craigmore Christian School, near Adelaide, South Australia
The school's own website doesn't mention punishment, but this report by Flinders University shows an extract from the "Affirmation of Support" which parents must sign, approving "corporal discipline". It also quotes the principal as saying that "many students are thankful and satisfied after being administered with corporal punishment". It is administered for swearing, fighting, dishonesty, etc., by a staff member of the same sex as the student, and takes the form of "a small, white wooden paddle to smack the student once or twice on the bottom".
These Australian private schools are also known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line, or are not on line at all:

Frank Dando Sports Academy, Ashwood, Victoria -- see this March 2005 news item

BAHAMAS, THE
These Bahamas schools are known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line, or are not on line at all:

Grand Bahama Academy -- see this March 2007 news item
Mary, Star of the Sea Catholic School -- see this March 2007 news item
St Paul's College, Freeport -- see this March 2007 news item

BERMUDA: private schools
Warwick Academy [PDF]
This school, "well known for its high level of discipline", has put its secondary handbook on line. The only reference to CP is to say that "Students may be strapped ... at the discretion of the Headmaster". There is a separate handbook for the primary section, but this doesn't mention CP at all. A separate discipline page goes into more detail: corporal punishment is given for "fighting, smoking or speaking obscenities, or other serious misdemeanours" and must be administered by the Headmaster or Deputy in his office. Parents are informed. A male may not administer CP to a female. By the way, a 1997 item in the local press stated that Warwick Academy was then the only private school in Bermuda to use CP.

BERMUDA: public schools
Berkeley Institute (Alternative link)
At this senior secondary school, caning is said to be "rarely used", but the principal reserves the right to administer it for "extreme discipline offences".

BOTSWANA
The Learning Centre School, Gaborone [PDF] (Alternative link)
Here is the form which parents must sign upon admission of their child to the secondary level at this private school. It includes agreement to the "corporal punishment procedure of TLCS, as detailed in the handbook". The handbook itself doesn't seem to be on line.
These Botswana schools are known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line, or are not on line at all:

Masunga Senior Secondary School -- see this May 2004 news item

GHANA
These Ghanaian schools are known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line, or are not on line at all:

Faith Montessori School, Accra -- see this Nov 2007 news item
Mpraeso Secondary School -- see this Feb 2006 news item
Prempeh College, Kumasi -- see these external links
Sunyani Secondary School, Brong Ahafo -- see this July 2005 news item

GUYANA: public schools
For the official CP regulations for all schools, see this April 2004 news item.

JAMAICA
These Jamaican schools are known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line, or are not on line at all:

Charlie Smith High School, St Andrew -- see this March 2006 news item
Kingston College -- see this October 2005 news item

MALAYSIA
SMK Damansara Jaya, Petaling Jaya
Here is a page describing the facilities of the school office at this secondary school near Kuala Lumpur. Among much else, we are told that discipline teachers can obtain their canes there.
Sri Kuala Lumpur (Primary & Secondary) School
This private school reserves the right to take whatever disciplinary action it deems appropriate, which may include caning (no details given). The school's FAQs page adds that discipline is "very strong" and clarifies that corporal punishment is for boys only and is used with parental consent.
These Malaysian schools are known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line (or at least, not in English), or are not on line at all:

Royal Military College, Sungai Besi -- see this external link
St John's Institution, Kuala Lumpur -- see this external link
St Thomas Secondary School, Kuching -- see this February 2004 news item
SK Dato Abdul Hamid Satu, Pasir Mas -- see this February 2005 news item
SMK Jabi, Alor Star -- see this May 2004 news item
SMK Aminuddin Baki, Kuala Lumpur -- see this May 2005 news item
SMK Kepala Batas, Alor Star -- see this January 2005 news item

NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS
Eucon International School, Saipan
At this Christian K-12 school, "corporal punishment (spanking) will be administered when deemed necessary". There is a demerit system: one demerit for homework not done, five demerits for insolence or dress code violations, and so on. "Upon receiving twenty demerits, the student is required to report to the administrator's office for a spanking". A note is sent to the parent, who must either sign a form approving the spanking, or come to the school and administer it him- or herself. Until one of these two things happens, the student is not allowed back into the school.
If the student reappears with the signed form, "a reasonable number of firm strokes will be administered with a simple flat paddle" by a staff member of the same sex as the student. The paddling must be witnessed and recorded. The student will not be physically restrained; if he refuses to submit, the parent is asked to come to the office to either administer the spanking or remove the student from the school.
At the same campus is also Eucon International College, a degree-level institution run by the same people. This handbook contains some of the same information about corporal punishment as the K-12 school book, from which large chunks of text have clearly been hastily copied and pasted. Presumably this is an error, since a college for adults wouldn't paddle its students ... would it?

SINGAPORE
Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School
Caning (for boys) is a penalty here for offences in category 1 (truancy, vandalism, theft, gangsterism, gambling) and category 2 (chewing gum, incorrect attire, unpunctuality, disruptive behaviour), but not category 3 (lesser offences). The equivalent for girls is three days' detention.
See also End of Year Examination: Instructions to Pupils [DOC], which warns that any student caught cheating will be caned and suspended.
Anderson Secondary School
"Major offences", of which there is a long list, "are punishable by caning (for boys) and detention class (for girls)".
Ang Mo Kio Primary School (Alternative link)
Caning is one of the actions that may be taken against students who infringe the rules here.
Ang Mo Kio Secondary School
For all major offences, such as smoking or fighting, male students "will be caned". If it happens a second time, the caning takes place in front of the whole school. Girls get detention instead. For lesser offences there is a merit/demerit points system. All students start off with 75 merit points. If your points fall to 55, and you are a boy, you get the cane in front of your class.
Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road) [DOC]
This all-boys secondary school, whose main front page is here, is part of the same "family" as ACSI (see next item) but unlike its sister school it is within the state sector. The document linked above is a list of crimes and punishments. Caning is listed as a possibility for all except the most trivial category of offences.
See also the Attendance Tracking System for the Attendance of Scouts. This warns Scouts (one of the school's co-curricular activity options) that if they more than once fail to submit a medical certificate for any missed activity they will "be liable for ... severe punishment ... such as caning etc.".
Note also the 15th letter to parents (July 2008), in which the Principal welcomes the fact that conduct has lately improved, as a result of which "I have had less need to impose corporal punishments".
Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) [PDF]
This highly academic, award-winning, private Methodist boys' secondary school doesn't currently put its mainstream disciplinary details on its website, although its principal is on record as saying that "we have corporal punishment for some serious offences" and that if parents do not approve of this, "then they should not have put their child in this school" -- see this July 2001 news item.
    The document linked above is much more specialised, aimed at the parents of prospective students (including girls in this hitherto all-male institution), for a new special stream to take the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) in years 5 and 6. Year 5 in Singapore is normally the year in which a student turns 17, though in some circumstances the age could be higher. This is equivalent to "A" levels, and all these students are, in British terms, sixth-formers.
    Go to pages 46 to 48 for the "academic honesty policy" concerning cheating, plagiarism, collusion, fabricating data, and the like, on the part of these 16-to-18-year-olds. At page 49 the penalties for contravening this policy are listed, including, in very serious cases or when other disciplinary means have been exhausted, "caning (only for male students)". This "will be conducted in the principal's office, classroom or during school assembly". Furthermore, "all students who have been caned will be required to attend counselling sessions arranged by the school."
    I suspect the reason the school is emphasising the point is that this briefing document is for parents of potential new students coming into ACSI at the year 5 level from outside, who, unlike the parents of existing ACSI students, might not be expected to be familiar with the school's strong CP tradition.
    I find myself wondering if there is any other place in the world where an International Baccalaureate student is subject to corporal punishment!
Bedok Green Secondary School
Here, boys who commit serious offences "will be caned".
See also this Oct 2005 document [PDF] from Christ Methodist Church, which includes an article (pages 4 to 5) by Bedok Green's young Discipline Master, who reports that his job is "very draining and extremely tiring". His duties include "carrying out corporal punishment such as public caning". He rather gives the impression that all canings at this school are administered in public.
Bedok Town Secondary School
Here there is a detailed list of offences and consequences. Failure to attend detention class brings one stroke of the cane plus two more days' detention class. One stroke, plus 3 demerit points, is also the penalty for such things as leaving school without permission; for bullying and smoking, it is one stroke plus 5 demerit points, with two strokes and another five points for each repeat offence. Most serious of all are assault, gangsterism, weapons and theft, for which the penalty is two strokes on the first offence plus 8 demerit points.
In addition, a separate deremit points system page reveals that accumulations of demerit points themselves result in canings in addition to the canings for the original offences. Thus, on reaching 30 demerit points, the student receives one additional stroke of the cane. At 50 points he gets two strokes, and the parent must come to the school. So, if a student commits a two-stroke offence which also takes him over the 50-point level, he presumably gets four strokes all at once on that occasion. Curiously there is no mention of what happens to misbehaving girls, even though this is a mixed school.
Bishan Park Secondary School (Alternative link)
"Suspension and/or caning" is the penalty here for persistent serious misbehaviour.
See also this Oct 2002 news item and this June 2003 follow-up about the public caning of a 17-year-old student at this school.
Bukit View Secondary School (Alternative link)
Pupils who commit serious offences "can expect severe punishment"; a clue to what this punishment might be is offered by the last line on the page, which says "a minor offence committed 3 times or more may be treated as a major offence and warrant caning/suspension".
Chai Chee Secondary School [DOC]
This is the undertaking that parents and students must sign, presumably on first entry to the school. The parents must confirm that they "will accept any disciplinary action meted out". That this might include caning is shown in this second document [DOC], the blank "discipline statement" form on which school staff record a pupil's offences and which the parent must countersign.
Chua Chu Kang Primary School
This merely states that "pupils may be caned or expelled" if they commit a serious offence.
Clementi Town Secondary School
This is not a school handbook, but the script of a school play, in which a secondary 5 boy (age c.17), threatened with CP, says "It will be so embarrassing to be caned at this age!", from which we can perhaps infer that the caning of seniors is not unknown at this particular school.
Clementi Woods Secondary School (New URL)
At this brand new school, caning is one of the disciplinary actions taken for "serious offences" such as smoking, vandalism, fighting and bullying.
Commonwealth Secondary School [PDF]
The rules here are quite detailed. For the usual list of serious offences (smoking, vandalism and so on), boys get one stroke of the cane in the office on the first time, two strokes in front of their class the second time, and two strokes in public, or expulsion, on the third occasion. Girls in a like position are (1) suspended from class for three days, (2) suspended from school for three days, and (3) made to read out a public apology, or expelled, respectively. This gives the impression that there are no circumstances in which a boy would ever get more than two strokes at a time, which would make this school fairly unusual.
Damai Secondary School
This school has a points system: 10 demerits brings two hours' detention, and 20 brings three hours' detention. Once a boy accumulates 30 demerits he is caned, while girls are suspended. An example of the "tariff" is that you get 5 demerits for not tucking your shirt in. Caning is also the punishment for skipping detention, for a third offence of failing an "attire/hair check", and for a fifth tardy in a term. Two or more canings in a term means your conduct report is marked "poor". For smoking in school uniform, the penalty is two strokes of the cane; for vandalism, fighting or bullying, it is a minimum of two strokes, to be administered in front of the class or the school.
East Spring Secondary School (New URL)
Male students caught smoking, or possessing cigarettes, tobacco or lighters, "are liable to be caned in school". In an earlier version of the document, so were those merely found in the smokers' company, but the current rules state that such non-smoking students will be punished, not necessarily caned. Female smokers are suspended in lieu of caning.
East View Secondary School
This is a list of examples of "criminal acts" and "serious misconduct". For boys, "caning, counseling and parents to be notified" is the punishment for a first and second offence. On the third offence, the offender may be suspended. The equivalent penalties for girls are 5 days' detention (first offence) and 2 days' in-school suspension (second offence). For lesser offences there is a system of demerit points. Uniform and hairstyle offences are not normally caneable here, unless they escalate beyond a third offence, in which case they are deemed to constitute "defiance", which counts as "serious misconduct" and thus attracts a caning. However, upper secondary boys (aged 14 to 17), who at this school graduate to long trousers at the beginning of the year in which they turn 15, are made to suffer the embarrassment of spending a full week at school wearing lower secondary (short pants) uniform if they commit a third "attire offence".
Fairfield Methodist Secondary School [PDF] (New URL)
Boys who commit a fourth minor offence in a row receive 3 demerit points and one stroke of the cane; girls get five days of "isolation after school" instead of the caning. Further demerit points accumulate for further offences, with another caning (two strokes this time), or ten days of isolation for girls, at the 8th offence. At the 9th offence, both sexes get one week's ISS and the pupil must sign a behaviour contract. A caning is also automatic whenever a boy reaches 10 demerit points.
As at several other Singapore schools, a student's first caning (per term, presumably) takes place in the office, his second in front of his class, and his third in front of the school at morning assembly. So much for the accumulation of minor offences. For more serious offences there is a detailed list of consequences. Thus, a boy will receive 5 demerit points plus one stroke of the cane for cheating in tests or truancy. For vandalism, bullying, gambling or smoking, the penalty is 10 demerit points plus three strokes of the cane.
Fengshan Primary School
This school has a table of list of offences and consequences that doesn't mention caning. However, underneath the table we read: "NB. Depending on the severity of the offence, the Discipline Committee can decide to cane the pupil."
Fuchun Secondary School
Caning here is a consequence for smoking, violence, bullying, defiance and disrespect, vandalism, persistent latecoming, truancy, theft, and outrage of modesty. For cheating and repeated serious offences, there is public caning.
See also the April 2007 issue of School-Home Link [PDF], the school's newsletter for parents, which warns that students making irresponsible use of mobile phones -- such as taking pictures or videos with them on school premises -- will be caned (boys) or given a corrective work order (girls) and suspended.
Geylang Methodist Primary School (Alternative link)
This is a page of "bus rules", which mentions caning as a possible punishment for vandalising the bus. Presumably it may also be used for offences inside the school, but these don't seem to be mentioned.
Greendale Secondary School
This school has a Disciplinary Committee, which may decide to order caning for serious offences.
Greenridge Secondary School [PDF]
Here is a list of offences and punishments. For such offences as being late and deliberately avoiding being booked, leaving school without permission, truanting, missing detention, rudeness, serious disobedience, smoking, cheating and forgery, and for a second offence of skipping lessons, boys are caned and girls are given "long detention". For the most serious crimes, such as fighting, gangsterism, stealing and vandalism, the caning may be delivered in public.
See also this May 2004 news item.
Griffiths Primary School
Caning here is a penalty for all serious offences, such as assault, gambling and theft. "Caning will be done as and when necessary with the Principal's consent."
Guangyang Secondary School
This school merely mentions that caning is a possible consequence of serious offences.
Henry Park Primary School
"Caning will be administered if necessary to recalcitrant cases by the Principal."
Montfort Secondary School
At this Roman Catholic boys' school, it is stated that the principal may administer corporal punishment, but no details are given.
See also this July 2002 news item about an occasion on which three senior students were caned in front of the whole school.
See also the school's blog. Scroll down a long way to "Puff the Magic Dragon", which the evidently highly eccentric but much-loved principal sang as he caned two boys in front of the school for smoking.
Nan Chiau High School
Caning (no details provided) is available at this school for Level 2 offences (including being more than 10 minutes late, defiance, disruptive behaviour) and Level 3 offences (truancy, forgery, vandalism, smoking) but not for Level 1 (consumption of food outside canteen, improper attire). Pupils may also be caned for accumulating 21 demerit points.
Ngee Ann Secondary School
A long list of detailed rules here, and clearly a strict regime ("I must not put on fanciful spectacle frames .... I must tuck in my T-shirt neatly ..."). On page 4, under "Offences and Consequences", we read: "I may be caned for my offence (Boys only)".
Outram Secondary School
After setting out the usual long list of possible offences, this document simply states that "corporal punishment (for boys)" is one of the disciplinary actions that may be decided upon by the Disciplinary Committee.
Peirce Secondary School
At this school, caning (no details supplied) is a punishment for a wide range of offences, usually in addition to detention and "home involvement". These extracts were archived (2002) from the school's previous website; its current discipline page doesn't list the specific consequences.
Ping Yi Secondary School - school rules
Ping Yi Secondary School - Pupil Management Department
The rules merely state that one of the possible consequences for violations of the code of conduct is "Corporal punishment (for boys only)". This (along with Montfort, see above) is one of the few Singapore schools to use that term, rather than the word "caning".
The Pupil Management Department page sets out the different responsibilities of the department's members. Here we learn that Mr Yusoff, the Operations Manager (pictured), is described as the school's "cane master", responsible for administering corporal punishment.
See also this Sep 2006 news item, which states that Ping Yi will continue to use the cane even though it has adopted a "restorative practices" scheme for certain wrongdoings.
Pioneer Secondary School
Boys are caned here for defiance and rudeness, cheating, forgery, theft, vandalism, assault, fighting, smoking, gambling, drugs, and a fourth offence of truancy, among other things. First offenders receive one stroke, but "two or more" strokes are imposed for subsequent offences. For serious offences, such as bullying, gambling or pornography, the punishment is delivered "in public". Other canings are "generally conducted in the office or classroom", but the fact of their taking place is announced to all students "to advise the school population on [sic] the offence committed".
See also this June 1999 news item about a 16-year-old who, with five other boys, was publicly caned in assembly. They received two strokes each on the buttocks with "a thick and long cane".
Punggol Secondary School
Here, offences such as theft, vandalism, gangsterism and truancy "carry mandatory caning during the school assembly". These are referred to as "serious offences specified by the Ministry of Education", which together with the word "mandatory" slightly gives the impression that the government actually requires these offences to be punished with public caning, but that can't be so, because not all Singapore schools cane in public, and there are a few that don't cane at all. Anyway, once caned, a boy who commits further serious offences may be suspended or expelled.
See also Referral procedures for major offences, where we learn that the parents of the offending student must come with their son to a meeting with the Discipline Master, at which they will be informed that he must make a public apology and will be publicly caned.
Queensway Secondary School
At this school, "depending on the gravity of the offence, the Principal may decide to cane the errant student in class or in the hall".
Regent Secondary School
The ordinary rules and punishments for this school are not on line; this is a special page for behaviour during examinations and assessments, which says that in addition to receiving a zero mark for the exam, any pupil who cheats or copies will be caned and suspended from class.
Riverside Secondary School
Here, boys may be caned for any of the traditional serious offences from the first time onwards. For truancy and skipping lessons, the cane comes out at the third offence, and for latecoming on the seventh occasion (per term, presumably). Girls get "two days of corrective work order" in lieu of caning, which actually sounds at least as bad, and certainly a great deal more time-consuming.
Rosyth Primary School [PPT]
Slide 30 of this Powerpoint presentation for the parents of new students tells us that caning is used for "recalcitrant" discipline cases, but only in the upper school.
St Andrews Junior School [PPT]
A Powerpoint slide presentation on Pupil Management from this boys-only primary school, mentioning (see slide 8) that caning is one of the consequences for misbehaviour, but giving no details.
St Gabriels Primary School for Boys (Alternative link)
A very specific list of offences and their punishments. Caning is apparently the only available punishment for quite a number of serious offences, with the number of strokes specified in each case, either one (e.g. extortion) or two (e.g. substance abuse). An earlier document, now apparently gone, stated that for repeat offenders, a maximum of 3 strokes is given either in the classroom or on the stage, presumably in front of the whole school. All canings are followed by counselling.
St Joseph's Institution - Junior - P1-P2
St Joseph's Institution - Junior - P3-P4
St Joseph's Institution - Junior - P5-P6
Unusually, this boys' primary school has different sets of punishments for three different age levels. It is quite surprising to see that caning is specifically mentioned for P1 (pupils aged only about 6). At that age, "caning" must surely imply something different from what the word means at secondary level in Singapore. In the case of level P1-P2, CP is available for a second or subsequent offence of things like bullying, truancy and assault. Boys in P3-P4 also get the cane for being abusive to staff - the punishment being inflicted in front of the class for a second offence, and in front of the level (cohort) for a third one. Caning in the office is for a second offence of forgery. Caning (location unspecified) is for several other offences such as truancy and bullying. A third offence of theft, extortion or assault attracts public caning, which presumably means in front of the whole school. At the top level (age 11 and 12), CP comes into play at the first offence for the most serious sins.
Seng Kang Secondary School (highlight the whole page to read text) (Alternative link)
"Rules and consequences" sets out very specific penalties for particular offences: caning is used for smoking, drugs or alcohol, and "serious offences" (fighting, gangsterism, vandalism, dishonesty, etc.) For repeated offences, not only does the number of strokes rise but the punishment becomes progressively less private. Thus, a first offence of smoking brings one stroke in the principal's office; a second offence, two strokes in class; and a third offence, three strokes in front of the whole school. Offending girls, who legally may not be caned, must instead wear a "red vest" for a given number of days.
Shuqun Secondary School
Caning is one of the penalties for all 16 serious offences listed, except truancy. It may also be meted out for the following "appearance" offences if repeated: hair coloured or too long, wearing shorts or pants that are too large, wearing coloured contact lenses.
Tanjong Katong Secondary School
Here, serious offences such as visiting cyber cafes, intimacy, smoking and truancy "may lead to a student being severely punished", which "could be in the form of caning, suspension and even expulsion from the school".
Teck Whye Secondary School
Caning is mentioned as a punishment in "serious and recalcitrant cases", but no details are provided.
See also this May 1999 news item, in which the discipline master is interviewed, as is a recently caned boy (who said that his caning was the right thing for the discipline master to do), and this Oct 2002 news item, in which the principal states that he canes errant students "when necessary".
Telok Kurau Primary School
This school mentions in a footnote that the "strict disciplinary consequences" that will follow the commission of serious offences may include caning. This is quite surprising, since the sister Telok Kurau Secondary School is not only one of the few secondary schools in Singapore to say that it does NOT use CP, but actually uses this as one of its unique selling points.
Unity Secondary School: Major offences
Unity Secondary School: Some important procedures
"Major offences" lists the crimes for which "severe punishments including caning" will be meted out. Under "some important procedures" we see that caning is generally brought into play for a third or subsequent major offence.
Victoria School
At this prestigious boys' secondary school, canings are meted out for a first instance of playing truant, smoking, theft, shoplifting, and other serious offences, and for a repeat instance of some less serious ones, such as "inappropriate hairstyle" and "sneaking into school after morning assembly".
West Grove Primary School
Pupils who commit serious offences here will be referred to the Principal and may be caned.
Westwood Secondary School
Caning (no details given) is one of the punishments for serious offences.
Xinmin Secondary School
Caning is one of the consequences for Category C (the most serious) offences, such as smoking, truancy, vandalism and getting tattoos. In addition, there is now a demerit points system, and "Boys who accumulate 20 or more demerit points will be caned".
Yishun Secondary School [DOC]
For truancy, not doing assignments, loitering around the school without a pass, defiance or rudeness, cheating, lying, forgery, vulgar or abusive language or gestures, smoking, and bullying, "boys will be caned", while girls have to serve four days' detention. For the most serious offences, such as stealing, vandalism, fighting, weapons, and gambling, the caning is delivered in public; girls get "public shaming" plus detention.
This school also has a particularly detailed policy on lateness. Students who arrive after 7.25 but before 7.50 must run five times round the school field. If they arrive after 7.50 and inform the general office, they must "report to have an agreed strategy for not coming late", run five times round the school field, and serve four days' detention. For pupils arriving after 7.50 who do not inform the office, "boys will be caned one stroke for dishonesty" in addition to all of the above (girls have to do community work for this offence).
Yuying Secondary School
Caning here is for "repeated misbehaviours" in the fields of attendance and misconduct, and also for theft, damage to property and other serious offences.
These Singapore schools are also known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line:

- Bowen Secondary School -- see this Oct 2004 news item about the public caning of three boys
- Bukit Batok Secondary School -- see this Aug 2002 news item about a new principal who turned the school round by enforcing caning more vigorously: "If you fight in school, you are caned by me"
- Canberra Secondary School -- see this July 2001 news item about the Discipline Master, including a statement by a boy that the DM's canings really hurt
- Fajar Secondary School -- see this Sep 2001 news item about the mass caning of 41 boys aged 16 and 17 for skipping class
- Jin Tai Secondary School (The New Paper, 16 Feb 2001, not on line)
- Ko Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School -- see this blog by a group of American visitors, which quotes the "extremely impressive" principal as saying that, when a student has been caned, every effort is made to ensure that he feels welcome again in the classroom since he has paid the price for his wrongdoing.
- St Andrew's Secondary School -- see this Oct 2003 news item
- Serangoon Garden Secondary School ("pupils may be caned" -- school's discipline policy website in 2002, now disappeared)
- Siglap Secondary School -- see this April 2006 news item about a 17-year-old student given two strokes of the cane in front of the school
- Yio Chu Kang Secondary School (Straits Times, 27 Jan 2003, not on line)
- Yuan Ching Secondary School -- see this April 2007 news item reporting that the school administered 80 canings a year between 1999 and 2001 but has since got the number down to about 10 per year.

SOUTH AFRICA: private schools
Bay Christian School, Port Elizabeth (Alternative link)
This is very odd. This school was not opened until 1999, by which time corporal punishment had already been outlawed in South Africa, for both public and private schools. Subsequent court cases have reaffirmed that Christian schools do not have any right to exemption from this rule, and yet here is one of them openly stating that "corporal correction is used in extreme cases as we believe it is a directive given by God".
Strand Christian Academy, Western Cape [DOC]
For serious offences, including fighting, defiance and swearing, or upon receiving a fourth detention, the punishment here is "Biblical correction". Since CP is illegal at school, a Correction Report is sent home with the student, whose father must administer the spanking that same evening. The father must complete the rest of the form to certify that the punishment has been delivered, and return it to the school. If the parents dispute the need for a spanking, the student is suspended. After three "Biblical corrections", the parents must attend a meeting at the school. If behaviour does not improve, expulsion may follow.

SOUTH KOREA: private schools
Centennial Christian School, Korea
CP, with another staff member as witness, is a possible consequence for major offences. Parents are notified beforehand, and have the option to come to the school to administer it themselves, in which case "the administration will dictate the amount of discipline received".
Global Christian School, Seoul
"Corporal correction" (no practical details supplied) is used at this K-12 school, but only after the parents have returned a form giving agreement on each separate occasion. So the offending student always has to wait until the following day for his or her spanking. The punishment is preceded and followed by prayer.
See also the School bus policy page, which mentions corporal punishment as a consequence for a third offence of misbehavior on the bus.

SWAZILAND
These Swaziland schools are known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line, or are not on line at all:

Mhlatane High School, Piggs Peak -- see this October 2005 news item
Mhubhe High School, Manzini region ("Pupils weep for leaving teacher", Weekend Observer, Mbabane, 18 Feb 2006, not on line)

TANZANIA
Patandi Primary School
Information for temporary voluntary teachers. The headteacher is allowed to give four strokes of the cane for certain offences.
These Tanzania schools are known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line, or are not on line at all:

Kahororo Secondary School, Kagera -- see this Sep 2004 news item

UGANDA
These Uganda schools are known to use corporal punishment, but do not appear to say so on line, or are not on line at all:

Bethany High School, Naalya -- see this April 2005 news item

ZIMBABWE: private schools
Peterhouse Boys' School, Marondera
This is an Anglican boarding school in the English tradition. Corporal punishment is administered "only by the Rector, Senior Master and housemasters".
St George's School, Harare (Alternative link)
At this Catholic (Jesuit) boys' school, corporal punishment is "not ruled out" but remains the prerogative of the headmaster.

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