Faisalabad student commits self-immolation after being expelled
According to the head of the burns ward Dr Nagrah, the child suffered severe burns on 90% of his body.
Muhammad Omar's teacher, Masood Siddiqui, at MC High school, had called his father to meet him and discuss holidays the student had been taking. Omar's father declined and did not go, subsequent to which the child was expelled.
On hearing this news, Muhammad Omar doused himself in oil in front of the school, and set himself on fire. He was taken to Allied Hospital in highly critical condition.
Education Executive District Officer (EDO) Sohaib Imran, immediately suspended the teacher, Masood Siddiqui and the Head Master, Ghulam Fareed.
Taking notice of the incident, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has demanded that a report be presented within two hours.
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I don't think it's all that simple.
In a country like Pakistan where the literacy rate refuses to climb, most public schools often have to resort to counselling the parents into allowing their children to continue studying, and not signing themselves up for menial jobs for money to pitch into the family's income.
I've worked with quite a few public and private schools, and if the child is coming up short in the attendance department, it becomes imperative to not only talk to the parents, but to the teachers too to tell them not to make any hasty decisions that could harm the student's future, taking into account that the parents ARE stubborn and more or less illiterate and desperate. The child, in this case, was greatly disturbed, and had gone to the Headmaster quite a few times. Instead of encouraging him, he was shunned by both parties.
I refuse to accept that the parents should be blamed, when our educators fail to shoulder the responsibility that they undertake when they decide to become educators/teachers, that their actions too WILL have repercussions.
It sounds like the the father's fault. I dont see how the teacher is to blame or the headmaster, they were following the rules
@Irtiza: So every time a student goes on a violent rampage in the US, it's also the teacher's fault? We have to accept that sometimes, teenagers crack and do irrational things as a part of growing up.
How on earth the expulsion of the hapless souls help in the general well being of the students or the education itself?????? Its high time that a sort of SOP be prepared and implemented in all our educational institutions so that the teachers rather than resorting to unwritten rules follow more humane and not so strict rules helping rather than harassing students.
Heads should roll since soul searching is the last thing we would ever resort to as a nation.
Let's not rush to blame the teachers etc... It seems that student is too emotional. . Probably he was expelled for such extreme actions while in school. Only investigation can reveal who was at fault.
Why teacher and Head Master suspended? :O
Father's is to be blame not the standard policy of the school, there got be some discipline.
teacher and head master expelled for what??
@Hamid Lol Karzai: Mr. CM has to prove that he works for the public. Someone has to be blamed.
@Hamid: most fathers in Pakistan are same very stubborn and never visit school to meet teachers. Teachers should understand this and should not take such severe actions.
It's our social dilemma where fathers are least concerned towards their children. They just think that their only duty is to pay school fee
That kid is one fry short of a Happy Meal.
@Hamid Lol Karzai: A teacher is supposed to take care of his students not just as his students, but as his own children - and if he can't do that, he should find another profession. The father may have been a poor guy busy earning money so he can pay for his child to eat and go to school. Teacher, being a teacher, had to show his authority by expelling a kid from a state school.
I think teacher should not be blamed for this extreme step taken by the student.
How is this teacher's fault?