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Phone Exposes teacher Who beat Students

Angela 0077

Angela 0077

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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/7953466/phone-exposes-teacher-who-beat-students

i remember when in the early 1970s the cane was used to stop children from miss behaving in class my brother for one got the cane and my parents went to the school to see why this action was taken.

i never knew the reason but my parents were very angry with the teacher who did the act.

I know the cane has been banned for many years now in Australia.

I found this news article about a teacher who took action and wacked 40 students scarring them

he hit them with a electrical cord wrapped around a cane.

The students were able to film this but it must have been bad that you can not get the footage

The school doesnt want anything to do with the teacher which is understandable.

Anyway have a veiw of the article and state what you think of what this teacher did
 
The teacher deserves to be sacked. I am pleased to see that the Thai education system is more against physically punishing a child than the Australian school system was when I was a child.

When I was at school (grade 5) my teacher, Mrs Poulson, knocked two boys' heads together because they wee arguing. She must have done it hard as it was quite a loud bang. The boys' names were Roy and Larry. Roy took off and ran home and his father came to the school at lunch-time with Roy running behind him. As Roy's father went in and demanded an explanation. As the classroom window opened onto the girls' playground about 30 girls, including me, gathered around to hear Roy's father tell the teacher off. We heard him order Mrs Poulson to accompany him to the headmaster's office. The mass of girls ran around to the headmaster's office but the office was higher up and the window was closed and Roy's father wasn't yelling in front of the headmaster. I am not sure if the headmaster took any action against the teacher but I don't think he did.

It was only as a adult I realised why what the teacher did was so wrong. She could have really hurt the boys.

I used to think it was wrong that the boys would get the cane for rather trivial things whereas girls only got a ruler across the back of the legs and that was only if they did something really bad.
 
The advent of cameraphones has been a godsend in this respect. I imagine a good 5% of all incidents involving violent abuse of authority are caught on film now. Let's keep it up. :techman:
 
Miss Chicken said:
The teacher deserves to be sacked. I am pleased to see that the Thai education system is more against physically punishing a child than the Australian school system was when I was a child.

When I was at school (grade 5) my teacher, Mrs Poulson, knocked two boys' heads together because they wee arguing. She must have done it hard as it was quite a loud bang. The boys' names were Roy and Larry. Roy took off and ran home and his father came to the school at lunch-time with Roy running behind him. As Roy's father went in and demanded an explanation. As the classroom window opened onto the girls' playground about 30 girls, including me, gathered around to hear Roy's father tell the teacher off. We heard him order Mrs Poulson to accompany him to the headmaster's office. The mass of girls ran around to the headmaster's office but the office was higher up and the window was closed and Roy's father wasn't yelling in front of the headmaster. I am not sure if the headmaster took any action against the teacher but I don't think he did.

It was only as a adult I realised why what the teacher did was so wrong. She could have really hurt the boys.

I used to think it was wrong that the boys would get the cane for rather trivial things whereas girls only got a ruler across the back of the legs and that was only if they did something really bad.
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My Catholic grade school class consisted of 8 boys and 16 girls. We got the shit beat out of us by the nuns for any reason whatsoever, the girls never got in trouble at all.

It got to the point where the girls got very very sneaky and creative with ways to get us in trouble so they could laugh while the nuns beat us.
 
Rii said:
The advent of cameraphones has been a godsend in this respect. I imagine a good 5% of all incidents involving violent abuse of authority are caught on film now. Let's keep it up. :techman:
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Yes they were lucky to be able to use there phones to gain footage of what happened.

Useaully in the classroom the mobile is banned until after class.
But these days alot of students hide there phones.

I think with what happened here it was good but l have seen these mobiles been used in school yard fights and then televised over youtube
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Angela 0077 said:
I think with what happened here it was good but l have seen these mobiles been used in school yard fights and then televised over youtube
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Seems to me that's a net positive too. Teachers can hardly ignore it or brush it away with 'I don't care who started it' if there's video evidence.
 
I think the problem here is that teachers used to be able to solve problems in the classroom but now if you tonch a child or try to stop them the teacher get into trouble.

I would have liked to know why this teacher resorted to doing what he did .
Some kids can be such arseholes sometime and when in a group they can be worse.
 
Angela 0077 said:
I think the problem here is that teachers used to be able to solve problems in the classroom but now if you tonch a child or try to stop them the teacher get into trouble.
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It's not something a student can be expected to do alone, but with hard evidence, if the school isn't doing anything I'd go to the Education Dept. and then the police, and then the local MP. And at that point it wouldn't just be about the bullies, be lookin' to bring down some teachers for dereliction of duty too.
 
The article said that corporal punishment is still quite common in Thailand. It would seem that this teacher only got into trouble because the form of corporal punishment he used was very excessive.

To me, it seems that he might have sadistic tendency otherwise why didn't he just use a normal cane.
 
2 things.... 2 of those kids barely reacted, and it would be much more effective if the cord had knots in it.
 
There was a teacher in grade school, which I never had fortunately. But I had heard lots of stories about him. He conveyed a scary aura and never felt comfortable around him. For one reason or another that I can't quite remember, I remember having to attend his class or something. There I witnessed him grabbing a student by the ears and slamming him against the wall and yelling at him. It was quite traumatic to say the least. And this apparently is something he'd do and kept doing. Kids would come home traumatized and the parents would phone the school board, but the school board didn't want to do anything without any evidence, which was frustrating. Well, sometime a few years later, they apparently got enough evidence as he went to jail and he was never able to teach or be around children again.
 
I went to a Catholic grade school, too, but luckily they were quite light on the physical punishment: they only used to pull our ears to separate fighting kids or stop you making a ruckus. (On the other hand, we were crazily regimented: no talking in halls, lining up in pairs when walking, keeping your arms crossed, etc.)

But if they did as much as hit a child, the furious vengeance of an army of Italian moms would descend upon them, with unpleasant consequences.
 
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