When I was in primary school 2 decades ago, I saw the teacher
hit a boy so hard on his head with a duster, he started bleeding .
He fainted from impact and the teacher herself panicked. In another
incident , she also made him drink a whole bottle of ink because he
was sucking on his pen. He vomited and made to clean his own vomit.
He turned out quite odd in the end.
I was slapped by that same teacher , my hair pulled out and hit by
her til one of my teeth fell out and from the impact - had actually
caused a deep cut into a part of my buccal cavity ( fortunately it
was my milk tooth) because I forgot to bring my homework to class.
I find that appalling. That would be child abuse in itself.
I was picked on by her because back then I couldn't see the
classboard too well due to lack of spectacles ( my parents never
knew why I had so many problems with her until later they found out
I was shortsighted ). After I got my new glasses, she even broke my
spects while slapping me and I got whacked by my parents when she
denied breaking it.
Would you want your child to be terrorised in the above
manner?
There are teachers I respected for meting reasonable corporal
punishment after explaining to me that I did wrong not doing my
homework. But that particular teacher, I hope she is dead so that
she cannot continue abusing children like that.
Corporal punishments are fine as long as they are directed ONLY
towards the bum or the hand and away from the rest of the class
i.e. teachers lounge room. If else where , as a parent , I will sue
and destroy the career of the teacher.
