Teachers with loose hands are a disgrace to Thai education
17 September 2016
Bangkok Post today addresses the series of violent and humiliating incidents in education in Thailand. Nopporn deputy editor Wong-Anan notes that teachers still use violence against students to discipline them.
The following incidents have recently occurred:
- A girl was forced to cry by her teacher to kneel in front of all the students and apologize for damaging the reputation of the school. After eating egg tofu during school lunch, she developed a skin rash. According to a hospital, she was allergic to this dish.
- A 17-year-old student had a mug thrown to her head by the PE teacher. He was angry because his class was noisy and the girl hadn't stayed on the scorching concrete floor. Her facial nerve was damaged to such an extent that she now has a crooked face (see photo above).
- An 11-year-old boy from Nong Hang school in Ubon has suffered severe hearing loss after the headmaster slapped him in the face and elbowed him numerous times for not standing up for the national anthem. Classmates say that the boy was tired and therefore did not get up. According to the boy's grandmother, after three months of medical treatment, he is still deaf. In addition, he can no longer see well. The headmaster admitted to hitting. He offered the grandmother 2.000 baht compensation, but she refused.
- The father of a first-year student of Kasetsart University who contracted a serious lung infection during a hazing has written to Prime Minister Prayut calling for a legal ban on improper hazing practices. The letter calls for strict punishments against the management of universities that fail to set rules for hazing.
Nopporn says that the incidents confirm the image that there is a kind of superiority complex of people with power in Thailand: “In schools there is a survival mentality. Corporal punishment, such as beating with a straw, has been banned in Thailand for XNUMX years. Despite this, humiliations, name-calling and abuse by teachers are the order of the day.”
Nopporn advocates firing the bunch of power-hungry people.
Source: Bangkok Post
Shameful practices! To draw these innocent students for life, hopefully these power-hungry teachers with their twisted minds can think about their actions for a long time in, for example, the Bangkok Hilton, but yes, I fear that they will be held over their heads again….
My son was also recently beaten by his teacher, with the famous bamboo straw on the hands.
Now my son is 7 years old, and you won't find a more gentle child. He is very dreamy, and that was the direct reason for the beating.
By the way, the taps have not helped to cure his dreaminess, but he is now very afraid of the teacher.
We have never hit our child ourselves!
I have informed the teacher through my wife (who did not want this at first, because she herself used to be beaten at school “is normal darling”) that I really do not accept this and will call the police next time – although my mind is actually on coin was thinking.
It hasn't happened since then.
Conversations with other Thai parents show that it happens more often, and people in our circle of friends are not really worried about it.
Corporal punishment, short (let's say very short hair) are prohibited by law. What law, right public schools, read temple schools. In church or private schools, the laws of the head of the school prevail. The bamboo sticks are bought in bundles. With the “corporal” punishment, the girls benefit from extra trousers and/or notebooks and books under their skirts. These are the experiences of half Farang children. When the children grow up and the female staff becomes frightened, the sports teacher is often called in as the executioner.
I am a teacher at an (Islamic) private school in Narathiwat. Today I accidentally noticed that there are a lot of teachers walking around with sticks – with a handle – of about 40 cm. It reminded me a bit of a sword. They also do not hesitate to use it on students. I'm a softie in that regard. I hope never to hand out taps, no matter how annoying students sometimes are.
You shouldn't even hit a dog to train it. So it is totally insane to use physical or mental violence against children, people. Someone who can't comprehend that shouldn't be a teacher, better still look for a job where there are no people around you.
The son of. My wife recently told me that the teacher hit him with a bamboo stick. He said that this stick was wrapped with plastic tape. When we asked why that tape, he replied 'then she can beat longer' I told him to tell us directly next time. If this happens again, I will be at the school that same day and will ensure that she will NEVER hit him again.
Told my wife to find a good school (when she was looking next) where teachers don't hit.
This because I know from myself that I will not be able to stop myself (in case our children are beaten by a teacher) and that if it does happen I will pay a visit to the school with all the consequences that entails and that I would rather end up in a Thai cell than our children are afraid to go to school and therefore their performance and life outside of sxhool will suffer.
As a parent, and especially as a father, you should always protect your children, whatever the consequences.
My wife indicated that she also disagrees (that teachers or female teachers are beating) and luckily we have not experienced anything yet and have not heard anything about it from classmates or at the school itself.
As far as I know, she did, in her own way, make it known to the teachers, at the start of school, that we are not served by this.
Which paid off because my wife got a call a few months ago, around lunch time, if she wanted to pick up her child because she didn't want to listen in any way (Dad's trait 😉 )
All in all, much respect for this teacher!
Mvg, Hendrik S
I always say: "One strikes when reason cannot win." In other words, if one cannot manage with words, the hands (with or without a weapon) are used. The language of violence. Our daughter will be going to school for the first time in two weeks. One tap is too much for me.