Corporal punishment may have been outlawed many yonks ago, but every year footage emerges showing teachers in South Africa getting heavy-heavy handed with learners.

What you don’t expect is a school that punts itself as run on Christian ethos to be the offenders, although this video coming out Springs tells a different story. News24 with more:

In the first of two videos, a man presumed to be a teacher smacks one of the pupils. In the second video, the same man throws over a desk before pushing another pupil. The dates on the videos indicate that the incidents happened in October and November of last year.

Olympia Park School is an LSEM school, a Lutheran Special Education Ministries school, for Christian communities.

The school has yet to comment publicly, with the Gauteng education department condemning the footage. Here’s acting spokesperson Oupa Bodibe:

“Corporal punishment no longer has space in schools and any educator found to have administered corporal punishment will face charges of assault which could lead to the educator being dismissed,” Bodibe said. “We have instructed the principal to provide us with a written response providing reasons why this matter was never reported to the department.”

Do unto others y’all…

[source:news24]