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since when is it EVER ok to hit another human being? i dont care if you are a teacher, a student, a parent, whatever! no one should ever be putting their hands on another person–with that being said, the teacher had a very good opportunity to lead by example and cease from hitting the student in the first place; instead, teacher “A” just escalated the problem. Nice.

Annie, I think there’s a big difference between slapping a kid five times on the face and beating her until the principal arrives versus taking her aside for a talk and a few well deserved swats with the stick. If her parents had done that the last several times she swore this incident may well not have happened.

violence is not the answer people [...] SO PARENTS BY ALL MEANS HIT YOUR KIDS…

you are hiLARious.

The whole story is probably that the kid was sleeping in class because they were tired from attending school for 12 hours a day. Therein lies one of the ridiculous paradoxes of the Korean educational system. Kids study at night in night classes or hogwons to help them with the school in the day time, but they can’t pay attention to the original course material because they are tired from all of the studying from the previous night’s cram fest, and the whole act of studying becomes completely worthless.

All that aside Korea really f***ing needs to get a clue about the lax attitude towards corporal punishment. It is stories like these that damage the country’s reputation abroad and make people think that it is a third world country. Teachers don’t really seem to see themselves as role models for how to behave in society here, which could be one of the reasons why there is so much fooling around here by students. (By fooling around I’m talking about the endless wrestling match that happens during the free period, or the endless conversations that happen in class, many Korean teachers seem to tolerate the crazy atmosphere until it becomes too annoying which then triggers the meltdown.)

You know, I agree with them both and it is easy to sit here and talk about it when we were not in the classroom. The truth is that beating a student is a horrible situation, and it’s even worse if the student needs it.

The best way to guarantee failure in any person, let alone student, is to let them grow up without discipline. This student forced the teacher to take his authority toa higher level, maybe higher than normal. We can assume that if he was the kind of teacher to beat his students then they would not have been sleeping in the class int he first place. The very fact that she was confortable sleeping in his class means that discipline has already been too relaxed, and this was inevitable.

The diference between humans and animals is that you can correct a human’s behavior by talking to them. When humans stop responding to simple verbal punishments then there is no other option, it has to be escalated. This is the case more and more in Korea, students are getting lazier and more defiant.

What are the teachers going to do? Do the kids realize that if this keeps up they will be a dumb uneducated nation like the USA in 10 years?

I’m not agree with that, beating the student always is not the way you respect your students you may also talk to them mildly or softly not always beating them, in our country when a teacher beat her student the teacher will be arrested or hitting a teacher to they’re student is prohibited ,the teacher always hit they’re students in simple reasons is a form of child abuse.

“Move to a different school.” Haha!

And just to be as offensive as possible, I’ll say: Looks like the Korean school system handles abuse by teachers in about the same fashion that the Catholic church handles abuse by priests.

Poor teacher. To think that you can beat a kid into a good student…

To the student: Ya do dumb shit, dumb shit happens…

To the teacher: Ya do dumb shit, dumb shit happens…

To the parents: BEAT YOUR DAMN KID, so she behaves like a person…not an animal

in our country

Which country are you from?

So Viva, what you’re saying is the student is an animal who deserved to be beaten?

EC, you are not far off.

Just sayin it’s not the teachers job to have to teach the kid manners and how to address older people…also in a society where people tend to become over emotional in public places, the kid should have known what she was getting into when she had her little tantrum…on the other hand the teacher shouldn’t be beating anyone…violence is not the answer people…this is clearly another case of parents who have failed on a most grandiose level…probably from an early age this truly repugnant example of mannerless existence was brought up to think she can go willy nilly into the night and do whatever she wants…and she probably has, up until this point, gone unpunished…SO PARENTS BY ALL MEANS HIT YOUR KIDS…

Who knows what the whole story was here but if it didn’t stop until the principal arrived on scene it probably was ‘severely excessive’. That said, what a stupid kid. Her chances of ever having a decent career are probably now over. Even if she does get accepted into another school word will get out about why and she’ll be proceeded by the most awful reputation and disliked from the start by all the teachers. I bet that now her parents really wish they had taught her to watch her mouth.

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