Due to the recent spate of school unrest many people have gone to the knee jack mode and corporal punishment is gaining momentum each day ,the old fork are out with there in our days stories………. .But is this the way to do in this time and age ,I would beg to disagree with the following reasons.
        Fighting violence with violence, this is the irony of the situation in our pursuit to end violence we want to use the same vice, do we really want to instill in our youth that the only way to gain discipline is to use valence, than how are we supposed to solve our other social vices like spouse abuse or will we have a magic wand to automatically recondition them at the end of the school period.
        Logic v/s fear, at the teen age is the time when children learn to use logic, reasoning, do we really want to substitute this crucial process with fear, to meet our short term goals. so what happens when the fear element is removed in short what I am asking is would you want some one who does right for rights sake or due to fear .you should go to the university to see what happens when this individuals encounter freedom with no supervision.
       Hero v/s pain, this is the chooses which most students face ,would you accept momentary pain to become a hero in the face of the other students .in my school days many students choose the hero option most of the time. So how are we supposed to solve this dilemma? Standardization and conditioning , who is doing to set the standard ,how many stokes will act as a deterrent against ,drug abuse , sex , etc since each individual has different pain thresh hold how sure that five strokes for Tom will deter John . then the little psychology I learn in school that after some time people become conditioned to a stimuli and this necessitates the increase of the stimuli so how far will the teacher be allowed go. And what will happen the next time a student is seriously hurt.
     I am not in any way trying to justify the student’s actions but this situation is too serious for us to be short sighted and take the easy way out.

i will give you a few seconds to tray and figure out the tribe i am writing about ........

The tribe i am writing about are the deaf, they are the smallest tribe in Kenya, i don,t know their exact numbers but they are united by the fact that sign language is the only language they know and will ever use,so regardless of there background in terms of tribe there is only one homogenious sign language in Kenya called Kenyan sign language.

i have had the chance to interact  with this group of individuals in the varies centers i have been to so far and i have really been impresed by there cohesion and unity and willingness to accept visitors in to there midest. so if you are looking for the true picture of Kenya in all it, shades and diversity you will get it hear.

The reason for this great unity is the fact that they are have realized that they need each other and that they are they have got,because in most cases community members in which they come from don,t even bother to learn the language and thus their exists are parallel universes for the hearing and for deaf. these situation is so bad that in most deaf schools the students prefer to remain in school during holidays than going home because there is no one to talk to at home.

To really appreciate there situation you really have to place your self in to there shoe,can you image yourself  with no radio, Tv, etc. the worst i can think of this situation is during a black out at night . so imagine doing simple tasks like going to buy some thing or looking for a job for that matter.

so in a time we are tring to put this country back together after the violence ,we should not forget this community and we can simply mitigate the above challenges by learning sign language,which is very easy to learn and the most interresting.the governmemt shouid also make the language to be one of the official national languages.

this individuals can also teach kenyans a lot in terms of unity,becouse just like them kenyans have many things that unite use and supercide all other considerations .