Social media abuzz after schoolboy caned for vaping
Before corporal punishment was outlawed, throughout history schoolboys were routinely caned for smoking (see here for some examples.) Now, as smoking cigarettes gives way to vaping the punishment continues in some countries. When a secondary schoolboy in Singapore was caned for vaping and truancy in 2021 his complaint trended on social media.
Secondary
schoolboy says he shouldn’t have been caned like that
Many say the punishment was lenient
A secondary school student has complained on social media after being caned
at school.
In an Instagram post on @sgfollowsall, the boy, who described himself as a
“Sec 2 student from NSS”, said he was given three strokes of the cane for
vaping and truancy.
The full name of the school was not given, but NSS could mean either
Northland Secondary School or Northbrooks Secondary School.
One of the strokes of the cane accidentally him on the thigh. It hurt so
much he didn’t know what to do. He couldn’t sit down, he added.
He had heard from his friends that the school should not have caned him like
that, he wrote.
So he went online.
The purpose of his post was to verify if indeed he could be caned like that,
he explained.
“My *ss got line and stings, can’t sit down,” he added.
The post garnered almost 9,000 likes in less than a day.
The boy received likes but little joy. Many who commented on the post felt
that the boy’s punishment of three strokes was lenient considering what he had
done.
As reported by The Independent (Singapore) online,
21 April 2021.
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