I was always always against teachers having the right to beat kids..even lightly! Alhamdullilah its actually Islamicly impermissible as well but this I only found out like two years back. I suppose it was mainly my sister's experience with this particularly draconian class teacher that made me hate this practice so much!I mean she used to batter kids unmercifully then put the fear of God in them so that when parents did inquire about her she'd have the kids give false testimony that she never beat them! And she'd swear she was innocent..and the worst part was she was the Christianity subject teacher as well so parents would ultimately let it go not knowing what to believe! my sister suffered a lot of depression and fears as a result..and posts like this just make my insides churn *shudders* I will never let my daughter,Inshallah, ever go through this..heck! I'll home school her if thats what it takes but never this.