Kenya’s colonial school discipline code operated unchanged for 38 years of independence

Evidence

Kenya under Kenyatta and Moi. The 1968 Education Act and the 1972 Education Code of Regulations established the operational framework for post-colonial Kenyan school discipline. The 1972 Code authorized corporal punishment of pupils on the buttocks (boys) or palms (girls), administered by the headmaster or an authorized senior teacher, not exceeding six strokes per offence, and required entry in a disciplinary log. The framework was effectively identical to the late-colonial 1937 Education Ordinance. It remained in force, with minor modifications, until 2001 — when the Moi-era Education Code amendment by Legal Notice No. 56 of 2001 finally abolished school corporal punishment in Kenya. From 1963 to 2001 — 38 years of Kenyan independence — the colonial-era school disciplinary code operated essentially unchanged. — , The Rod and the Child, 4487

Categorization

• XREF: Establishes the 2001 abolition that Episode 70 will reportedly circle back to as the start of the prohibition cascade.