The agency has released guidance indicating certain school policies it considers necessary to adhere to the gender equity law Title IX, but it has not stipulated what kind of punishment schools should dole out for various offenses.
Mr. Roach, who joined Morgan Stanley in 1982 after stints at Morgan Guaranty and the Federal Reserve, is of the sin-and-punishment school: after so much bingeing, he claims a bad hangover is not only inevitable but necessary.
New guidelines for teachers, to be issued this week, actively encourage schools not to be afraid of imposing sanctions and clarify what sorts of punishments schools may use.
What he recalls of Nigeria is mostly the heat and the corporal punishment in school.
Of the 27 states that have banned corporal punishment in school, the first was New Jersey, in 1867.
However, unions also protect effective teachers from arbitrary punishment by school administrators who may be opposed to innovative ideas that come from the teaching staff.
In successive cases, he voted in favour not only of states' rights, capital punishment and school prayers, but against abortion and affirmative action.
"The combination of military discipline at home and corporal punishment at school is probably good preparation for a restaurant kitchen," he said.
This "proves that the sexual dimension to corporal punishment at school does exist for enough people to make it commercially worthwhile".
A slender, quiet man ("No ego," Kubota had said of him, admiringly), Daiku talked with me about the days when speaking the Okinawan language, Uchinaguchi, was cause for ridicule and punishment in school.
A while ago, the children of Uganda, supported by a child rights organisation, mobilised themselves and sent strong messages to government about the negative impact of corporal punishment in school.
