Corporal Punishment and Ragging
This evening when I switched on the news channels I was devastated after watching the news of 11 year old Shanno Khan’s death as a result of the heartless punishment meted out by her school teacher. Parent’s send their children to school thinking that their kids are safe and are at a home away from home for absorbing knowledge from educators. What a shame that we also produce teachers who can wreak havoc with the lives of innocent children – can you imagine the mental trauma the ten-eleven year old fellow students would be suffering from after seeing one of their own being brutally punished? The child’s head was banged on a table and then she was made to stand for more than two hours in Delhi’s unrelenting 40 degree Celsius heat with two bricks on her back in a “murga” position! I wish the teacher is punished in a similar fashion for at least eight hours with ten bricks on her back to account for the age factor. Let us see is she has the physical condition to withstand the punishment w...