• Some discipline is a good thing, it helps students to stay focused and get busy learning.
But do some teachers lose sight of the purpose of the punishment?
And how do they manage to keep their jobs?
Here are the fifteen teachers who took punishment way too far.
15 - , Cutting a student's hair • Irritated by her students constant playing
with her hair braids, a Milwaukee first-grade teachers decided to remove the problem by
cutting it off.
Seven-year old Lamya Cammon was called the front of the class and had the offending braid
removed with a pair of scissors by the frustrated teacher.
The girls furious mother demanded an apology from the school and the teacher received a
$175 fine for her scissor-happy conduct.
14 - , Holding hands • When two Arizona students got into a fist
fight in the schoolyard, the principal gave them the option of suspension or public humiliation.
They chose the latter, which involved the two boys being forced to sit and hold hands
outside while the other students of the school laughed and teased them.
The punishment was criticised for encouraging bullying, and for fuelling the idea that two
men holding hands is somehow shameful.
13 - , Lunch on the floor • A New Jersey school board was forced to
pay out a settlement of $500,000 to seven fifth-grade students whom the vice-principal
had punished by making them eat their lunch off the cafeteria floor.
The students were part of a class of fifteen Hispanic students from the bilingual class
who had their trays and chairs removed as a penalty for spilling a water cooler, which
doesn't seem bad enough to deserve being treated like dogs.
12 - , Standing in the rain • When central England was hit by storm
Angus in 2016, torrential rainfall hit the area hard.
A teacher in Staffordshire, arriving late to class, found a few of the students misbehaving.
As punishment, the whole class was made to stand outside for twenty minutes in the pouring
rain, which one parent said sounded like something out of Guantanamo Bay.
Fortunately, none of the students got sick, but the teacher was suspended by the school.
11 - , Face drawing • In an effort to boost reading in her class,
a fourth-grade teacher in Idaho ruled that students who didn't meet their reading targets
would have their faces drawn on by classmates.
A punishment more traditionally reserved for drunk college kids, the ten-year-olds would
return home covered in marker-pen moustaches and scribbled writing.
Parents were unhappy that their children were being turned into a canvas, just because they
didn't read words good.
10 - , Chained to the school • A student at a madrassa, or Islamic school,
in Hyderabad, India, had run away from the school repeatedly to escape the regular beatings
he claimed to be receiving.
To prevent this, one of the teachers chained the boy by the leg to make sure he couldn't
get away.
A passer-by spotted the captive pupil outside the school and telephoned the local police
who released him.
Several other students were reported to have been kept in a similar way.
9 - , Monster closet • Inspired by the book 'After School Monsters',
which they were reading their kindergarten class, two teachers in Texas punished a misbehaving
four-year-old by locking him a janitor's closet.
They told the child that there was a monster in there and they held the door shut for five
minutes, while the child was trapped in the dark with only his terrified imagination.
Both teachers were, unsurprisingly, suspended.
8 - , Human punching bag • In another case from a Texas kindergarten,
a teacher was faced with the decision over how to punish a student accused of hitting
another child.
In an 'eye-for-an-eye' style punishment, the teacher had the 20 other students in the class
line up and take turns punching the offender, encouraging them to hit him harder as she
watched.
The teacher was convicted for child abuse, as forcing children to fight is frowned upon,
even in Texas.
7 - , Stuffed in a bag • A special educational aide in Kentucky
dealt with a difficult student by putting him into a duffel bag and drawing the string
tight.
The boy was left in the bag until his shocked mother arrived at the school.
The school claimed that the bag was part of a therapy process, but the student, who suffers
from autism, remained traumatised and uncommunicative after the ordeal.
A nationwide petition has since called for an end to the abusive practice.
6 - , Amputated legs • In the Malaysian state of Johor, an eleven-year
old boy at a religious school was beaten with a water-hose for making too much noise in
assembly.
The student's legs were slapped repeatedly with the hose, until they were bruised all
over.
The injuries were so severe that the boy was in hospital shortly after with both legs amputated,
and he ended up falling into a coma and dying from his wounds.
5 - , Torture Hole • After school teachers in an after-school
programme in Manhattan dealt with one particular student by forcing him into a hole in the
ceiling which measured only 40 by 70 centimetres.
Other students were kept in order by being threatened with the same punishment, which
left the six-year-old boy traumatised, unable to sleep in the dark on his own.
All staff involved were terminated immediately.
4 - , School lunch shaming • In schools in several countries, students
from poor backgrounds are being punished for their parent's inability to afford lunch
fees.
A school in London takes away students' hot meals, gives them a sandwich and piece of
fruit and places them in isolation until their parents pay any outstanding costs.
Senators in the US have come together to end similar practices in America, arguing that
children should never be shamed for their parents' financial position.
3 - , Death from kneeling • A ten-year-old girl from near Hyderabad
in India hadn't done her homework, so the teacher allegedly forced her to kneel on the
hard floor for two hours.
Severe muscle cramps affected circulation in her legs and she was hospitalised later
that day.
The girl died a week later, sparking a strong protest from family and supporters, who stormed
the school and destroyed furniture.
Several charities called for the removal of the school's licence.
2 - , Electric shocks • A special needs facility near Boston has
come under fire for its use of aversion therapy.
Electric pads are fitted to autistic children, and the children wear them all day.
Staff at the school can administer electric shocks to the troubled kids using remote controls,
as a way of controlling their behaviour.
The method has been described as barbaric and falls under the United Nation's definition
of torture.
1 – Beaten to death • A teacher in northern South Africa faced
murder charges in summer 2017 after punishing a teenaged pupil with a beating.
The student was hit so hard with a wooden stick that he was knocked off his feet and
left paralysed.
He later died in hospital from complications associated with the assault.
The boy had been accused of stealing 150 rand, which is a little over ten dollars – hardly
a crime punishable by death.
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