Just today evening by chance I switched on our idiot useless box technically termed as Television (Since the television in my home get a rare opportunity to get switched on!!) and what caught my sudden notice was the news in Aaj Tak channel which forced me to scribble down something here.
Since these days I am busy in writing my R.O.L by default my way of writing anything has changed to the way we write our R.O.L. For those lucky souls who are unaware of what the hell is this R.O.L let me brief you and for those who know I would request them to wander their minds while reading this or skip it. R.O.L. is Review of Literature which is done before doing any research. Before starting the research we need to know what all studies had been carried out in relation to our research topic. It has an added advantage that we get a direction for our research – come to know what all has been done (that avoids duplication of earlier researches) and results of earlier researches help us in justifying and validating our research and also an added disadvantage “ uufffuuuu we have to study a lot – read a lot – refer journals, books, sites !!!)
In brief I suppose that is enough to know what is R.O.L otherwise Google is always there for your rescue.
So not diverting from what I basically want to share (which is actually my usual habit!!!) I come back to the topic.
Acknowledgement:
Words seem to be the crudest for expressing when it comes to revealing my innermost feelings. But however since a naive in using “telepathy”!!! I wish to use the following words to express so.
For fulfilling my wish to share the following I put my would like to thank my “useless Idiot box” for letting me know what all is going on. Secondly I put on record my heartfelt gratitude to the “so called Teacher” who have just been successful in making the life of few children a hell and same for their parents too ( if by mistake those children are left alive!!!). Thirdly the vast source of information – “Google Uncle and Wikipedia Aunty”!!!!!
However I cannot restrain myself to make a special mention to extend my thanks to my Computer (Hp Pavilion), Microsoft Word and bsnl broadband service (for providing me net accessibility so that I can post it in the blogspot)
I do a little more than to bow down in deep gratitude to www.blogspot.com for letting me give the opportunity to do a “Bak Bak” here. Hope I will be doing it regularly!!!
Last but not the least – Poor Souls who are reading!!!!!!
On a serious note: Preetu – it’s not a matter to laugh.
Abstract:
“A student severely caned by his teacher has now died from complications from internal injuries.”
For the ‘crime’ created by kids in schools, they are murdered, made to clean toilet, forced to kneel for hours, caned savagely. Accordingly to a survey ten per cent of children in schools in Mumbai are ill-treated. It is time the government intervened and banned all forms of corporal punishment.
A child may be very provocative at times, but these days kids want to reason out everything. Through love and understanding, make her/ him realize his mistake."
Let us look at the aims and objectives:
1. Of Students who are forced an admission to a school by their parents:
Aim: Nah no aim … … if we expect a 3 year child to have an aim … we nothing but the greatest fool of the millennium. However they just come because they have attained an age to be admitted in school and also “beta your friends are going to school – you also HAVE to go”. It’s in very later life we realize that yeah that school going was so important. (Slap!! Again drifting from the topic)
- Of those “so called Teachers”:
Aim: Besides a career for them - To teach the children in school to be a better and able individuals – a better youth of our society. (This is what is expected from teachers!!!)
I do respect to the fact that most of them do respect their aim, objectives and their profession but few get drifted (like I do!!! he he he) and those few are able enough to infame the whole teacher and school community, our education system, our government, our law!!!
If they want to make India a barbaric idea of school discipline, I don’t think this is the appropriate acceptable way!!!
Materials and Tools: Aahhhh just anything you name it and it can be used!! Everything in this world is multipurpose!!!! Verbal abuse, cane, belts, strong hands and finger, duster and the list is long. (I hope you can make their role here, so excuse me for not explaining!)
Results: A beaten child, horrified child, shocked child, injured child, demotivated child, sometimes dead too… …
The reason/ fault: The child by mistake was that he/she was not an adult and acted like a child. Sometime agreed he/ she may proactive yet was a child. Being child was the fault.
Introduction:
A few excerpts: (Technically: I am mentioning Case studies!!!)
“A student severely caned by his teacher has now died from complications from internal injuries.” “Child beaten by his school teacher few days back die”
A teenage boy, Arpit died here Thursday; allegedly due to a beating he received from a female schoolteacher last week, prompting police to slap a murder case against her. He suffered serious chest injuries after the beating, the complaint said. The boy was admitted to a hospital Wednesday
School authorities, however, denied the teacher was at fault.
Police said investigations were on and the body had been sent for post-mortem and the report was expected in a day or two.
Why did the teacher beat the boy with a stick??? For creating a nuisance during a mid-term examination. (On July 26’ 2007)
However I suppose we do know that this Arpit’s case isn't alone - corporal punishment is widespread in schools.
Just out of curiosity to know more regarding regarding this incident I types few words “ Corporal Punishment” in Google ( commonly called as my Google Uncle!) and there was flood of information regarding the uncontrolled widespread use of corporal punishment and what horrified but didn’t shocked was that its quite prevalent in our Indian schools. It wasn’t shocking because past few months now and then we do come to know about the corporal punishment faced by student in schools.
→ In a shocking incident, a six-year-old K.G. 1 student of a school in Chandrapur was caned by a teacher so badly, the child lost her sight in her left eye. After the beating the child has bled from her eyes. Shocking it was her father and not the school that rushed her to the hospital. It was stated the kid had suffered irreparable loss to her left eye.
→ Twelve-year-old Nitin Rai has permanently lost 20 per cent vision in his right eye, thanks to a teacher who flung a duster at another boy but shattered his spectacles instead. He's undergone three operations and, last week, a year after the incident, his parents moved the high court seeking Rs 10 lakh in damages from his school, Preet Public Secondary School, Preet Vihar.
→ Eight-year-old Rohit Kumar Sakpal of Sangli, Maharashtra, was beaten to death by his headmaster this February. Infuriated over his transfer, a teacher in Madhya Pradesh beat two six-year-olds to death last December 14;
→ Jeet Ram, a class VI student in Shimla, died on May 14 last year after he was beaten by his teacher for leaving his maths and English copies at home
→ A 13-year-old boy was made to clean the stinking toilet because he came late to school by a few minutes. This was the punishment he got for his ‘crime’. But this was not all. He was also caned and was forced by the neck to kneel when he hesitated to clean the toilet.
→ A class XI student kissed a girl with whom he was madly in love. Punishment by school? He was expelled. The boy was so traumatized; he committed suicide by consuming poison. [2]
Teachers in large number of schools use the scale to hit boys on the head, arms and the palm. Sometimes the blunt edge of the scale is used.
Making kids kneel for hours is a common form of punishment.
Pinching the ear, pulling the face with fingers, slapping are other forms of corporal punishment inflicted. The scale is used for frivolous reasons, one of them being ‘disciplining the child’.
Agreed that not all children are murdered in schools, made to clean toilets, made to strip, but in a large number of school across the country are given corporal punishment. Isn’t it?
Review of literature:
Corporal punishment (C.P.) is forced pain intended to change a person's behaviour or to punish them. Historically speaking, most punishments, whether in judicial, domestic, or educational settings, were corporal in basis.
In modern world, corporal punishment has been largely rejected in favor of other disciplinary methods. Modern judiciaries often favor fines or incarceration, whilst modern school discipline generally avoids physical correction altogether. Although corporal punishment is still used in many domestic settings, it has been banned in over seventeen countries. Corporal Punishment in Canada is restricted to children under the age of 13, and only by parents or guardians, and only such punishment that does not leave marks. {3}
Now further literature I won’t write here because it will be a sheer CCP – Cut/ Copy Paste.
Hence for further short but not so sweet information I would request you to take help of www.google.com and www.wikipedia.com . Lots and lots is there just a click afar ……
Results and Discussion:
A reliable study proves that in Mumbai, one in ten city kids are ill-treated. A survey conducted by the SNDT Women’s University proves corporal punishment is very much in evidence in quite a few schools. And because of ill-treatment, the kids had suicidal thoughts.
What is a serious matter that usually the poor kids suffer silently and do not inform about the punishment even to their parents!!!!
According to reports, the government is planning to deal with the cruel, painful, uncivilized issue soon. The state has to pass a bill making corporal punishment a serious offence. Soon!!!!!!! How soon … when??? After a lot more children will be traumatized!!!!!
Personally I don’t believe that C.P. either at school or at home works in changing behavior. It can’t!!! It might instill fear but not the discipline and it can only do incalculable psychological harm and at times cause even death or permanent disability.
Hey!!! A child CANNOT think or behave like an adult ~~~ the fact is that a child after all at the end of the day “A child”.
A child is a child - and the big mistake most teachers do is to treat them like adults and expect adult response from them. After all they are the most innocent of all human beings.
And however mischievous they may be they do responds immediately to love. An affectionate pat, a kind and appreciate remark, a little praise work more than any form of corporal punishment. This simple fact the adults are not able to understand who claims to teach otherwise a lot to the child.
Following the news on C.P. appearing these days in news I observed that it exists in more in government than public or private schools. Why???
The children in the former come from poor homes and they do not have any kind of ‘innocence’??? Beat them to black and blue and there will be no complaints. Neither from children nor parents. The parents can do nothing when they hear of cruel punishment meted out to their children. They are afraid to complain because they think the teacher will be vengeful and single out the child for more torture.
We might laugh on the fact that "You can't raise a stick against a dog because of the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals Act.” Yet we can escape after the hitting a child." Hah!!!!!
A child may be very provocative at times, but these days kids want to reason out everything. Through love and understanding, you have to make him realize his mistake." I agree patience on part of teacher required but then the mentor of teaching doesn’t posses patience what to expect of his/ her students.
Didn’t these teachers understand that C.P. would only instill fear in the child and won’t be conducive in his/ her growth and even education???
I don’t know may be if it's easy for adults to condone corporal punishment but when you're a child, it can seem like the worst form of torture, so terrible that you stay up at night plotting your revenge. Didn’t you do any time?? Although hopefully I never had to face any C.Ps. in my student life excluding the “ usual teachers ka DAANTNA and all and few a times occurring “ get out of the class for talking in class” ( for a serious boring teacher I suppose that should be a heaven to get out of class – although don’t know why I used to feel bad that time !!!!)
"Brutal treatment of children can never inculcate discipline in them. Obedience exacted by striking fear of punishment can make the child adopt the same tactics when he grows up for getting what he wants... the child has to be prepared for responsible life," ( don’t be exclaimed these heavy duty but true words are not mine -- it’s a CCP!!)[2]
Most of the countries have now put a ban on C.P. Like Western Europe, most of Eastern Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and South Africa have banned corporal punishment in schools. Australia has partially banned it. In the US, 23 states allow it. Why not India???? An immediate implementation required >>>
There are countries which have gone a step ahead and banned corporal punishment at home. We need ONE TOO >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Summary and Conclusion:
In contrast to gigantic summary usually found in thesis and journal (5-6 pages) in just few lines it can be can be summarized and concluded that:
“We need a stronger and child friendly law so that the sweetest souls are not humiliated, injured, exploited:
Webliography:
- www.preetu ka chaotic dimag.com
- www.google.com ( for other C.P. cases and for R.O.L)
- www.wikipedia.com ( for general reference)
Note: Bear this her/ his thing appearing now and then ….. It’s a sheer result of mine being a bit more towards Feminism!!!
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