AlphDoti wrote:Lolest! wrote:AlphDoti wrote:FRM2011 wrote:
Hallo guys, I am sure we have people who went to starehe on this forum. Kindly share how they have managed to instill discipline without resorting to the cane. Or anyone else who might have a working and practical approach in a school set-up.
They admit pupils based on character. They do not accept obviously hard-headed ones... Other schools suffer highly with pupils who are coming from indiscipline homes or previous schools. These are the ones who export their behaviour to the next school...
Wait... all schools looked up to Starehe back in the day
But wasn't it said that the late Griffin liked using the cane?
You're right, cane was there. But the recipient were already too willing and easily reformed due to rigorous selection process. And besides, most of those selected came from poor families and they had no other option but to conform in order to proceed in that school.
Back in the day at my school we had both the cane and other kinds of punishment. I would prefer the cane, some other students too cause the others were of the cruel and unusual kind.
Some fine examples included cleaning the pig sty, washing the dining hall,..and toilets, copying large tracts of textbook text to exercise books, filling a bucket with water drawn from a stream one kilometer away using a testtube...and others. The teachers and prefects had an abundance of ideas. The principal also expelled people who were veering towards hardcore truancy and bad behaviour. The cane was nothing.
Contours, we used to call it.
fun times