From The Christian Science Monitor multimedia series (featured on the newspaper’s website and in the print edition) that chronicles the first school year of a six-year immigrant from Burundi, Bill Clinton Hadam in Clarkson, Georgia:
… Hassan agreed wholeheartedly with the teachers’ characterization of his son’s defiant behavior. Here in America, he and Dawami had the same problems with Igey at home, Hassan said. But what could they do? “He says: ‘I don’t want to do it,’ ” Hassan says. Where he grew up, in Congo, or where his wife did, in Rwanda and Tanzania, corporal punishment would’ve taken care of that in a hurry. “But here, the system is you can’t force a kid to do what he doesn’t want to do. You can’t slap him.”
Leo Africanus 