Discipline overboard
Jeff just called me into his office, and asked me if I’ve heard or read about the story on…
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/21/japan.blood.reut/
What a sick story. And to see that it happened in Japan…
Don’t think that this kind of punishment is acceptable in Japan. It’s just that teachers like to escalate the disciplinary action, and often too much that it becomes abuse.
Of course, the other thing we can see in this story is how the victim did not ask for any more disciplanary action taken to the teacher either. And the school is willing to put this teacher back to work in a few days. I really don’t see exactly whose fault it is. Is it the fault of the system who don’t take these things seriously enough, or the fault of the students who don’t stand up for their rights?
June 22nd, 2004 at 7:35 am
Yeah….that’s disturbing. The worst someone ever had to do at my high school was repaint the lockers after he had written his name all over them. Then his father sued the school because his son had to clean up a mess that he made in the first place. =/