Thread: Complaint filed against teacher for “unreasonable” punishment

The family of a male Mathayom 1 student of a school in tambon Thung Thoeng of Ubon Ratchathani’s Det Udom district has filed a police complaint against a female teacher for punishing the boy in an unreasonable way.

The elder sister of the boy told Thai PBS that the teacher ordered him to kraab or pay obeisance on the floor to a pair of shoes for 10 times. After that she put the shoes on the head and then on the back of the student and ordered him to crawl into the classroom before the eyes of many fellow classmates.

This was a punishment on the boy for breaking a regulation by wearing shoes while in the school building.

The boy’s sister showed a video clip of the punishment to the reporter, saying the punishment was “unreasonable.”

She said the teacher should have used other methods of punishment than putting him to shame.

The boy said this happened on Aug 4 at about 11am when he stepped up to the school building with the shoes on. He had no idea how the clip had gone viral online.

The family of the boy had met the school administrator to inform him of the incident before filing a complaint with Det Udom police.

Thai PBS tried to contact the school director and the female teacher for their comments but was not successful.

Complaint filed against teacher for "unreasonable" punishment - Thai PBS English News

Whatever happened to a good old rap on the knuckles with a ruler, or a blackboard eraser aimed at the head?

No sense of tradition these people.

I've always been of the fashion that a general cleansing of the subliminal and creepy militarism/authoritarian over lording character within the Thai education systems would be beneficial for all.

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That should about halve the staffing levels.

Originally Posted by Pragmatic

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That should about halve the staffing levels.

Yeah but it's where he learned to write.

i can only come up with pathetic.

Really, this does become a tad tedious but here we go again, Thailand is an emerging third world country with an educational system anchored into something redolent of the Victorian period but without the resources, expertise or skills.

There are reasons why a significant proportion of the population are incapable of thinking for themselves.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

rap on the knuckles with a ruler, or a blackboard eraser aimed at the head?

It was tradition when i went to school.

Originally Posted by Seekingasylum

Really, this does become a tad tedious but here we go again, Thailand is an emerging third world country with an educational system anchored into something redolent of the Victorian period but without the resources, expertise or skills.

There are reasons why a significant proportion of the population are incapable of thinking for themselves.

+1

Agree

^Yep.

You don't say.