Caught On Cam: Andhra Pradesh Teacher Beats Up Student For Skipping School 4 Days In A Row

At some point in our lives, we've all been beaten by a teacher. It's a fact that no one can deny, if you haven't been thrashed, it's plain luck.

Corporal punishment is a very common practice in schools across India. This form of abuse ranges from mild to severe forms of physical punishment and in many cases, goes to the length of verbal abuse.

If you thought things have changed now, they haven't. Even with all the awareness on laws against it, there are some teachers who continue with this regressive practice.

In a more recent incident, a teacher of a privately-run school was seen thrashing a student allegedly for not coming to school for four consecutive days.

Visakhapatnam: Teacher of a private school near Allipuram thrashed a student allegedly for not coming to school for four days. The incident was caught on camera. #AndhraPradesh (July 4) pic.twitter.com/AuhXHUjKU1

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The incident was caught on a camera, and it reportedly took place near Allipuram, Vishakhapatnam. Being subjected to this sort of harassment can be extremely scarring for students that young.

Its memory that will stay with them for life and may even have a direct effect on a growing child's personality. But many teachers just don't seem to care about the consequences.

In a similar incident, a teacher in Madhya Pradesh made his students slap their classmate 168 times, all because she was unable to complete her homework.

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According to a report in Dainik Bhaskar, this incident took place back in January 2018 and came to light after the victim's father lodged a complaint with the police against the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya teacher.

The class 6 student's father said that 14 of her classmates were told to slap her twice everyday for six days. Can you imagine the state the child was in?

Apart from being held accountable for a genuine reason, the child has to deal with a really embarrassing situation. One that might snowball into him being constantly bullied by his classmates.

But incidents of corporal punishment just don't seem to stop. More recently, one school in Haryana has decided to introduce sit-ups in its curriculum as "super brain yoga".

"Hold your ears and do sit-ups" is one of the most popular punishments in schools across the country, put to practice it in the garb of it being a form of 'yoga' is really unnecessary.

Haryana: Under State School Education Board Pilot Project, Govt School in Bhiwani makes sit-ups mandatory for students. Rajeev Kr, Education Board Secy, says, ¡°It's super brain yoga. It's scientifically proven that it increases brain efficiency. We're starting this from tomorrow¡± pic.twitter.com/Rk3r4e7XUi

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According to ANI, a government school in Bhiwani is set to make sit-ups compulsory under a pilot project. "It's [Performing sit-ups is] super brain yoga. It's scientifically proven that it increases brain efficiency. We're starting this from tomorrow," Rajeev Kumar, Education Board Secretary, told the news agency.

In 2012, a Class 10 student in Hyderabad developed fever after he was made to do 100 sit-ups at school and he succumbed to exhaustion. In another case in 2017, a class 8 student in Kolhapur district of Maharashtra took ill after she was made to 500 sit-ups in her school for not completing her homework.

TBH, there are million other ways to keep a students brain and body active and sit-ups are certainly not the best choice.