Corporal punishment: Complaint filed against teacher
Ninth grader punished for throwing ink at classmates on last day of school.
RAHIM YAR KHAN:
Police have received a corporal punishment and humiliation complaint against a teacher and a principal of Government High School for Boys, Khanpur.
Yaseen Ghauri, uncle of a ninth class student Muhammad Hassan, said some students of the Government High School for Boys, Khanpur, playfully threw ink at each other on the last day of school before summer vacations on Friday.
He said Mujahid Fareed, their physical training teacher, caught Hassan, beat him with a stick and made him rub his nose on the floor in front of other students.
He said he had approached the school principal, Aqeel Asif, with a complaint but the latter dismissed it as ‘usual’ saying students would be punished whenever they misbehave.
Fareed, the teacher, denied the beating allegation. He said he had only scolded the students.
Ghauri said incidents of student torture and beating had become a routine practice at government schools.
He demanded the chief minister take notice of these incidents.
District Coordination Officer Dr Javed Qazi has directed Assistant Commissioner Ameen Awasi to submit a report about the matter in a week.
Police said they would file charges against the accused after the medical report of the student is received.
As many as four cases where students committed suicide over teachers’ alleged maltreatment were reported from various cities during the last month.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2012.
Police have received a corporal punishment and humiliation complaint against a teacher and a principal of Government High School for Boys, Khanpur.
Yaseen Ghauri, uncle of a ninth class student Muhammad Hassan, said some students of the Government High School for Boys, Khanpur, playfully threw ink at each other on the last day of school before summer vacations on Friday.
He said Mujahid Fareed, their physical training teacher, caught Hassan, beat him with a stick and made him rub his nose on the floor in front of other students.
He said he had approached the school principal, Aqeel Asif, with a complaint but the latter dismissed it as ‘usual’ saying students would be punished whenever they misbehave.
Fareed, the teacher, denied the beating allegation. He said he had only scolded the students.
Ghauri said incidents of student torture and beating had become a routine practice at government schools.
He demanded the chief minister take notice of these incidents.
District Coordination Officer Dr Javed Qazi has directed Assistant Commissioner Ameen Awasi to submit a report about the matter in a week.
Police said they would file charges against the accused after the medical report of the student is received.
As many as four cases where students committed suicide over teachers’ alleged maltreatment were reported from various cities during the last month.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2012.