 Re: Having stead is a offence in secondary school?
I think that different schools have different treatments. Let say the school is very good in their reputation and somehow there is a picture with him touching his gf (in uniform), they have to do something.
To me, caning is really too harsh. And to expel the student for having a stead is unreasonable. The school should think of how they should help the student, not about the school's reputation. Expelled students will result in deliquence in their action and a burden to the society. Sometimes, the student's future is at the school's decision.
I don't think caning is necessary to punish the boy. He merely touched her hand, not other private parts of the girl's body, and also not having sex with her. He also didn't kissed her, based on the photo. Informing the parents of both students would be the best solution. Let the parents teach them, before the school takes action. Cos I feel that it is suppose to be the parents who would teach their children about sexual education.
Caning should be done if the student is caught smoking, fighting, taking drugs. But I am a student, I'm not sure what the Caning Handbook has for us.
The school also should consider one factor which is whether the photo was sent out by students or not. Let's say either the guy or the girl have an enemy and this person wants to sabotage both of them, or this person just wants to do this for fun. Using force on riduculous incidents like this is really not a good solution, without identifying the proof and what's the motive. School's authorities are adults, and they think better than students like us, youngsters. If they don't think wiser than us, I bet no one would.
In some of my thread, I named out that whatever the school teach/reacts/show, affects the future and the growth of the student. Cos, youngsters like us are like this chinese proverb - YOU YANG XUE YANG. (means LEARN WHAT THEY SEE) | 
