Corporal punishment lands student in hospital

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Corporal punishment lands student in hospital

A Correspondent Published September 9, 2018

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NAROWAL: A nursery student was hospitalised with injuries after his schoolteacher clubbed and slapped him on Saturday.

Reports said labourer Azam’s four-year-old son Mateen was playing with his class fellows at the Government Chan Pir Elementary School, Mohallah Chokhandi, when his teacher Qaiser Usman forbade him from doing so. Mateen wept bitterly and the teacher slapped and clubbed him as a punishment.

The child was injured and had to be taken to hospital. His parents reached the school and protested against the teacher who escaped after seeing the child in a serious condition.

Headmaster Zahid declined to respond to the media queries.

DC Zeeshan Javaid directed District Education Authority CEO Dr Abdullah Waheed Raza to conduct an inquiry and submit a report.

Published in Dawn, September 9th, 2018

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Saif Zulfiqar

Sep 09, 2018 01:39pm

Beating students in schools should be banned and culpirits should be jailed.,

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Bill

Sep 09, 2018 04:03pm

That was more than corporal punishment.

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M. Saeed

Sep 09, 2018 04:08pm

It is not even a week that the corporal punishment was banned by the Government in the entire country schools. But, this 4 years old child was even much smaller than the school age. Was it some nursery school? The teacher responsible should be given examplary punishment.

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omer khan shaheen

Sep 09, 2018 10:13pm

Educate teachers and change laws

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Abu khalid UK

Sep 10, 2018 02:50am

It's a disgrace to call him a "TEACHER"

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