Discipline
With effect from July 2010, OPSS now allows students to have mobile telephones at school, but only in certain areas of the school, and they must be turned off or set to silent during lesson time. Mobile phones will be confiscated if they are taken out during class time without permission.
The school has introduced the Self-Improvement Programme (SIP), which replaced detention classes. In the SIP, students (most of whom have broken the school rules) study or revise for two hours. Boys who choose to skip the SIP receive corporal punishment. This consists of a number of strokes of the cane applied to the seat of the student's trousers as he bends over. Girls who skip SIP do work such as the cleaning of toilets and classrooms. Otherwise, more SIP hours would be added to the student's record.
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