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UDATED : Head teacher kills boy who answered back
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by LotusFlower | September 19, 2008 at 08:15 am
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Updated with some facts from US on corporal punishment
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Another story from India on school's abusing pupil's rights this coming at atime when some in the UK are asking for the return of corporal punishment in British schools blaming anti-social behaviour and violent crime by young people on a lack of discipline in schools.
This is one of several stories from India on similar issues including:
350 pupils imprisoned in India
Wherever corporal punishment is allowed by law then children are at risk from bullying teachers and this is not only in India.
Corporal punishment is illegal in UK schools but remains legal in 23 US states with according to figures released in August by the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education 13 states using corporal punishment frequently. These states are: Missouri, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida. In the school year 2006/2007 more than 200,000 children received corporal punishment including spanking and paddling.
NP's Dave Keating highlighted this report in August see it here.
An 11-year-old boy has been beaten to death by his headmaster in the Indian state of Bihar – the third child to be beaten to death by a teacher in India this year.
Gyan Ranjan, who had been a pupil at Holy Mission Children's Academy in Rajepur for just over a month, died last Friday after he was punished for answering back to one of his teachers.
The school initially tried to cover up the murder and claimed Gyan had committed suicide. However, local villagers became suspicious and alerted the boy's family.
Police begun a murder investigation following a complaint from the boy's father, and the headteacher, Uday Kumar Sharan, along with two other teachers, has since gone into hiding.
Many children's rights campaigners believe reported deaths are merely 'the tip of the iceberg' and that severe physical abuse is endemic in Indian schools.
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at 08:24 on September 19th, 2008
That is crazy!!! I'm not a fan of violent discipline; I don't think the lack of corporal punishment in schools today can be blamed for antisocial behaviours. Research in psychology is clear that violence modeling increases, and doesn't at all deter, AS behaviours.
at 08:34 on September 19th, 2008
tina - I updated the story with some US figures too
at 10:30 on September 19th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 15:45 on September 19th, 2008
Funny, back when corporal punishment was nation wide and taken very seriously, the crap that happens in our schools today, did not happen as much or not at all. When people have no clear cut consequences for their actions, they have no reason to stop. It's that simple.
We have given the children all of the power in our society and taken it away from the parents and teachers. They can be as violent as they want to and know that nothing that they understand will happen to them.
It's simple. Would you tell a gun wielding murderer who has broken into your house with the intent to rob you of your possessions and your life, to go stand in a corner in time out? No, you will either stop them using force or die.
By the same token, if a child gets out of hand at school and does not learn to follow the rules through the pansy handling that is used for punishment in our schools today, then further steps need to be taken. The rules have to be enforced. People have to be taught to accept the consequences for their actions. Otherwise we end up with what we have today. a serious lack of education, kids dropping out of school left and right, shootings on school grounds, major drug problems, GANGS, teenage pregnancy, STD's running rampant... etc etc.
King David said it best, "If you spare the rod, you spoil the child." Life is hard and without proper discipline, a person will never make it. Let's go back to giving our children some actual consequences for their bad behavior, so that we can adequately prepare them for the road that lies ahead.
Our world would be a much better place if there were less crime and violence in it. Don't you agree? I would much rather live in a world where the bad guys were afraid of doing bad things for fear of the consequences than the world we live in today, where the good people are afraid of stopping the bad guys for fear that they might get into trouble.
OH and do not answer me back with that garbage about who gets the right to decide what is right and what is wrong. Your failure to draw lines in the sand has led us to this state that we live in. It's time for good people to learn how to draw a line and hold it again, otherwise there will be no good people left and we will all have to live in fear of walking down our own streets at night...
OOPS!!!! TOO LATE!!!!!