Mou Chakraborty & Sukumar Debnath
Kolkata, July 27, 2007
Corporal punishment came to the fore, as schoolteachers in separate incidents beat two students.
In the first incident on Thursday, Karnadhar Mondol, history teacher at Chetla Boys’ High School struck a student with his shoe during class when the boy was caught cheating. Class X student Joy Adak was taking his history unit test and tried peeping into another student’s copy. Warned once by the teacher, Joy tried peeing again and was caught. Karnadhar then thrashed him with a shoe in front of the class.
Back at home Joy narrated the incident to his father Rajkumar. On Friday, Adak Sr complained to the assistant headmaster Bikash Mondol. The schoolteachers admitted it was wrong to have hit the boy and Rajkumar did not lodge a police complaint.
In the other incident, a Class IX student was beaten by his teacher and had to be admitted to a nursing home. The boy’s guardian along with others attacked the school premises.
Rohit Ali, a student of Narayan Mongola Vidyaniketan High School was beaten up by Bengali teacher Subhash Gharami. In this case, Rohit had been docked for creating a nuisance at the coed school.
The boy was taken to a nursing home and mother Rabeya alleged her son had been beaten and tortured by the teacher and demanded justice. The headmaster Gobinda Chandra said, “He was slapped and not mercilessly beaten. The boy did some mischief and the teacher meted out mild punishment.”
Teachers are in fear as a group of people had come to school and threatened the headmaster and the Bengali teacher of dire consequences.
It may be noted that only two weeks ago, school education minister Partha De had urged teachers to refrain from hitting students as it discourages them from coming back to school.
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