Beaten to death at school
Such deaths are preventable if teachers are given less power and if there is a proper disciplinary system in place. There are certainly alternatives to physical torture. These alternatives include marking a student down for grades or retaining him or her in the same grade for the next year if he or she fails to attend a minimum number of school days or is late to school too frequently. Another option is to give detention after school or during lunch hour for him or her to reflect on his behaviour. Unfortunately, students do not understand the importance of punctuality because perhaps their own teachers do not practise it. If students were taught about the importance of being punctual for keeping good reputations in front of future employers, they might care more about timely attendance.
Resultantly, this act of torture did not affect only this student. It affected all students of the school as the school was indefinitely shut down after the incident. Consequently, those students are missing out on valuable class time, rendering the need for a proper disciplinary system for students as well as for teachers who take to violence as a form of discipline. A student should not have lost his life over being tardy one day and we hope to see justice served to the teacher in this matter.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 11th, 2012.
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these psychopaths should be put into a straijacket and sent to the loony bin or Guantanamo Bay! not to mention, i was beaten too with a drum stick and now sometimes at night I want to find her and beat her too, give her the taste of her own medicine.
@Editorial
You have done well to raise voice against inflicting corporal punishment on children .It
is inhuman and unjustifiable .Teachers who cannot control their sadistic urges should be
punished , or transferred to the police department which will provide them greater
opportunities for " self-expression " .
Physical voilence agaist children is widespread not only in our schools but in our homes
as well . Parents and teacers freely give vent to their sadistic impulses on weak and
helpless children . This punitive attitude is backed by our cultural assumption
summed up in the adage : " Spare the rod and spoil the child ". At its back
is the traditional concept of human personality being divide into good and
evil components . Education of the child consists in encouraging the good part, and
punishing the evil one . We have to educate ourseleves out of this archaic concept of
human personality.
Human child , we have to learn, needs love and respect to grow into a decent adult .
Punishment only stunts and distorts his personality .