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Cameroon Teachers Protest, Seek Reinstatement of Corporal Punishment Amid
Rising Violence

Moki Edwin Kindzeka

   YAOUNDE - Cameroon teachers are protesting what they say is growing
   violence against them by both students and their parents, and the
   teachers are urging the government to protect them and reinstate
   corporal punishment. The teachers say the absence of corporal
   punishment is encouraging abuse of teachers. This week, several attacks
   on teaching staffs were reported, including one in which a teenage
   student fatally stabbed his teacher, in the capital.

   Students shout Saturday at a government-run school in Obala, a town on
   the outskirts of Cameroon's capital, Yaounde, protesting the
   principal's decision to destroy all mobile phones and knives seized
   from children Friday at the school. One of their senior discipline
   masters, Narcisse Ateba, says the students use mobile phones to access
   social media platforms that promote violence, and they also use sharp
   objects such as knives to attack their peers and teachers.
   

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