11/28/2012
LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE
Indian schoolgirl attempts suicide after being paraded naked by teacher for 'stealing' £15
he scale of cruelty and corporal punishment in Indian schools was highlighted yesterday by the attempted suicide of 13 year girl who was paraded naked by a teacher for 'stealing' £15.
The case emerged amid a series of reports of brutal attacks on children by teachers throughout India Photo: REX
The girl was forced to remove her clothes
by a female teacher at a school in north-west Delhi after being accused
of stealing money and a mobile phone from a classmate. She returned home
after school and jumped off the balcony of her four-storey block of
flats. Her relatives said she had been distraught by her public
humiliation.
Her case emerged amid a
series of reports of brutal attacks on children by teachers throughout
India. A four year old boy was forced to drink his own urine by his
nursery teacher in Andhra Pradesh to punish him for wetting himself. A
five year old boy in the same state was beaten up by a grammar school
principal, while a seven year old Dalit girl was thrashed by her
mathematics teacher for failing to solve a problem. A teacher was
arrested in Madhya Pradesh for partially scalping an eight year old girl
.
Colin Gonsolves, director of
India's Human Rights Law Network, said while corporal punishment in
schools is illegal it remains widespread.
"In
practice we are still beating our children in our schools It doesn't
just include beating the child, we have witnessed cases of sexual abuse,
mental harassment and long term psychological traumas in many children.
As far as the schooling system is concerned we are still living in dark
ages and acting as an uncivilised and backward society," he said.
The
problem continues, he said, because many parents and police officers do
not consider it wrong for a teacher to beat a child. "they think its
been done for the betterment of the child." he said.
LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE
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