Your Say: Teacher beats class 8 pupil to death in Nakuru for failing test

Our education system is being done in such a way that it only teaches greed and corruption. It has no room to identify one’s strengths and give them chance to deal with weaknesses. Instead it is used to force people to compete against each other not considering that we are all different. Until they abolish this ranking system and only focus on grades then these will continue to happen and the result is a society of people trying to have more than the other no matter what the quality is. Niamey

It’s obvious the education CEO cannot perform otherwise why are so many children being killed, made pregnant by teachers? .h

Many years ago, my math teacher used to set a pass mark and anyone who didn’t get that got canes to the deficit. Some would be getting it to the next test. In 2016 another child is lost and no one has been held responsible. In most cases these types of teachers are bad teachers. I can’t wait for so called representatives. God give the family all the strength. White Stuff

The bottom line for this is if the teacher broke the law; let him face its full force. Sometimes however, the story is twisted such that it may victimize the teacher. Only after a full postmortem examination is done can it be established if the death was due to the beating or something else. Simba

A child has died of possible battering and this is reported as corporal punishment. Further, the education authorities are investigating and the police accept they have received a report. Was this child a domestic animal? SHAME! Emmanuel Sillah

I am surprised that child abuse still exists in our schools in the name of discipline and punishment by battery. In a country where justice only exists on paper, I had to personally warn administration of a certain school when my six-year-old son complained that a teacher had assaulted him by repeatedly hitting his fingers with a ruler. I am an adult and still bear the mental scars from beastly attack by my former primary school head teacher. MMusa

MMusa, you will be surprised that many parents in Kenya still support corporal punishment. Not so long ago, there was a discussion here on the same and many of those participating in the discussion supported corporal punishment. Tiat

We over glorified passing academic exams at all cost, a culture that has contributed to undue pressure on teachers, parents and worst of all, children. Abdikadir

Ok, I’m not of a mob justice mentality; I suggest that a postmortem be conducted first before we start this press/public lynching. We were all caned during our times and we survived. Nius