Elementary school students faced by a teacher’s extreme choice… “No corporal punishment”

[아시아경제 김소영 기자] Since the 1st, both physical and mental punishment for students in China has been banned.

According to AFP news reports on the 2nd (local time), punishment that hurts students physically and mentally was banned after a series of cases in which students suffering from corporal punishment or verbal violence in Chinese schools made extreme choices. Not only corporal punishment, but also prolonged standing and verbal violence are prohibited.

Instead, the Chinese education authorities recommend that students who do not do their homework are penalized, such as writing reflections or cleaning classrooms, and using formal disciplinary measures such as suspension in case of serious school rule violations such as bullying.

In China, corporal punishment was banned in 1986, but because the crackdown was not strict, the custom of condoning it became hardened. As a result, there have also been reports of cases in which a student who was embarrassed in front of his classmates made extreme choices because teachers frequently criticize students or make insulting remarks.

In September of last year, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that a 10-year-old girl, who was taken to a teacher and beaten in the head after making two wrong calculations in Sichuan province in southern China, died of the aftereffect.

In addition, according to China Daily, in Jiangsu Province, China, in June of last year, Miao Kexin, a fifth grader in elementary school, smacked her of her writing homework, saying, “I lack positive energy.”

Afterwards, the school clarified that “there is no fact that the teacher cursed the student,” but the investigation confirmed that the teacher directly assaulted the child. In addition, it was revealed that teachers used violence and made insulting remarks against students in the past.

Meanwhile, China’s top legislative body, the National People’s Congress (Nonin University), plans to enact a new family education law banning corporal punishment in Korea at this weekend’s meeting.

Intern reporter Kim So-young [email protected]