By D N Singh
The scourge of impatience or anger as regards the studying pattern in schools or at home often culminate in the deadly epilogues like a child’s death or fatal injury or dementia or being schizophrenic or mentally ill when he or she gets physical punishment beyond a tolerable limit.
It has been happening tom the both, the parents at home who get over-driven by pressure of child’s studies or in schools the teachers drop down themselves to crude levels to hit the child.
In the very recent days, a few such incidents have stirred the nation’s conscience but a few megalomaniac teachers or parents. Three children have died after being beaten and two to three got fatally injured.
Hardly a fortnight back , in Bhubaneswar’s Nayapalli, a child died when his elder brother landed a few nasty slaps on his head just because he was a bit weak in grasping his lessons.
During the same period, a child in Delhi also suffered serious mental impairment after being bashed by a teacher for lapses in his lessons. The other one in Bulandsher in UP, a child died after getting slapped on the face and head for similar reasons.
Another child died today
The teacher has been accused of beating a student to death in a private school in Gautam Buddha Nagar of Greater Noida and an FIR has been registered against the absconding accused.
According to information received from the police, the 12-year-old victim studied in class five at the Captain Sanwalia Public School located on the Bambawad-Mahavad road.
The accused teacher, Soren, had asked students to prepare a subject for a test on October 6.
The next day when the victim was unable to answer some questions, the accused teacher got angry after which he beat the boy mercilessly on his head and back, following which the latter fainted, said officials.
After being admitted to Naveen Hospital in Dadri, the victim was transferred to Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Hospital, Delhi.
It was later revealed by the doctors that three veins of the boy’s head ruptured due to the severe blows.
The victim was pronounced dead late Sunday evening.
A search is underway for the absconding teacher.
It is difficult to understand that despite fatal outcomes of such crude corporal punishments meted out to young children, what drives our seniors like teachers and parents to such extremes. Do the load of study outweighs the sensitivity within the seniors or it is the pressure of schools’ curriculum leads to such excesses requires, to be assessed soon.
