Student bleeds after ‘wild cane’ beating by teacher

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Student bleeds after ‘wild cane’ beating by teacher

– at private school in Berbice

By Andrew Carmichael, October 3, 2017, http://guyanatimesgy.com/stude...-beating-by-teacher/

A student attending a private school on the Corentyne in East Berbice, Region Six, was forced to seek medical attention after reportedly being whipped several times on different parts of the body until he bled.
Shazan Khan, a first form student of the Berbice Islamic School at Tain, Corentyne, was given an injection and other medication at the Port Mourant Hospital on Monday afternoon after a beating he allegedly received from a teacher at his school earlier in the day.

This shirt belonging to the schoolboy became bloodstained allegedly after the beating he received from his teacher

In the presence of his brother-in-law, Khan told Guyana Times that he was beaten and called “an animal”.
According to him, he had lent his homework exercise book to a friend to copy his working when a teacher (name given) took the book away and threw it out of the classroom before asking Khan for his homework assignment.
“I ask him why he throw my book outside, and then he did not answer. Then he go in the office for the ‘wild cane’, came back and asked me for my homework, and I told him, ‘Sir, how can you ask me for my homework when you throw my book outside?’ then he start beat me all over my skin with the wild cane,” the student related.
Khan showed this publication a bloody shirt, which he said was soiled when he started to bleed from the lashes he had received. He also showed marks on his shoulder, while relating that several students, he being one, were chewing gum while in the classroom, and they were told to go and empty their mouths.
“He tell me to go and empty my mouth; that I chewing like a goat; and I tell him that he don’t have the right to call me a goat, and he tell me to get out of the class.”
According to Khan, who also gave the police a statement on the incident, he told his teacher that he was going home to inform his parents what had transpired, and the teacher held on to him and physically assaulted him. Thereafter, he was taken to the office.
“Then he want to give me six (lashes with) the wild cane, and I told him, ‘No, you can’t beat me with the wild cane. Let me go home and tell my parents’,” Khan detailed.
Khan’s brother-in-law, Gladwin Abdulla, said the matter has been reported to the Prime Minister’s Office. He said what was done to Khan was inhuman, and he is seeking to take legal action against the school. The matter has been officially reported at the Whim Police Station.
The teacher at the centre of this allegation is a retired Education Officer with the Department of Education in Region Six. It was not clear up to press time whether the teacher has been questioned by the Police.

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Former Member

lock up the teacher and throw away the key

10/3/175:08 PM

Former Member

Demerara_Guy posted:
Student bleeds after ‘wild cane’ beating by teacher
– at private school in Berbice
By Andrew Carmichael, October 3, 2017, http://guyanatimesgy.com/stude...-beating-by-teacher/

The teacher at the centre of this allegation is a retired Education Officer with the Department of Education in Region Six. It was not clear up to press time whether the teacher has been questioned by the Police.

Seems that this individual has other interests than providing educational opportunities to students.

10/3/175:10 PM

Former Member

As a minimum for him, RiffRaff.

10/3/175:13 PM

Former Member

This incident doesn't bode well for the re-hiring of retired teachers and/or other education officials. Too bad, because there is a shortage of teachers in the public and private school systems. Regarding chewing gum in class, in my time long ago the school rules prohibited that.

10/3/175:29 PM

Former Member

“He tell me to go and empty my mouth; that I chewing like a goat; and I tell him that he don’t have the right to call me a goat, and he tell me to get out of the class.” Really?

This chap look like he was giving teacha a hard time that he get a good cutrass.

10/3/175:29 PM

Former Member

That teacher is horrible.

10/3/178:52 PM

PrashadSenior Member

The teacher should be given a good beating in public.

10/3/178:58 PM

Former Member

Prashad posted:
The teacher should be given a good beating in public.

He should get a good public flogging for hitting a student. No teacher has the right to hit a student.

10/3/179:08 PM

Former Member

Discipline is good, but that is too much even for an unmannerly student.

10/3/179:36 PM

Former Member

Where were my rights when teacher put me to kneel on the rough edge of two soda corks? confused

10/3/179:40 PM

Former Member

Prince posted:
Discipline is good, but that is too much even for an unmannerly student.

No violence on any child is good. That is abuse and it has no place in civilized society.

10/3/179:41 PM

Former Member

I am not condoning violence or corporal punishment on students in school, but what is seen as violence today was considered discipline yesteryear. Parents have less control of thier children today than earlier years. Parents and children are at a crossroad in terms of control and lack of discipline.

Yuji, I guess you are in your early 20's to understand the discipline I am speaking about.

10/3/1710:03 PM

ballSenior Member

Prince posted:
Where were my rights when teacher put me to kneel on the rough edge of two soda corks?

Look how yo tun out now

10/4/171:18 AM

Former Member

Prince posted:
Discipline is good, but that is too much even for an unmannerly student.

Taxpayers pay these teachers to teach. They are not paid to abuse the children. If he is unable to handle a logical thinking kid(‘Sir, how can you ask me for my homework when you throw my book outside?’ then he start beating me all over my skin with the wild cane,” the student related.), then he should just find a different job. Jail the bastard. I think that the kid's answer that caught him off guard and embarrassed this useless piece of trash. He should be fetching country ban for a living.

10/4/178:30 AM

MitwahSenior Member

ball posted:
Prince posted:
Where were my rights when teacher put me to kneel on the rough edge of two soda corks?
Look how yo tun out now

Now I understand why he moves around lie a Cobra.

10/4/178:40 AM

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Cobra posted:
I am not condoning violence or corporal punishment on students in school, but what is seen as violence today was considered discipline yesteryear. Parents have less control of thier children today than earlier years. Parents and children are at a crossroad in terms of control and lack of discipline.
Yuji, I guess you are in your early 20's to understand the discipline I am speaking about.

well...I don't know what decade you speaking about...but I don't remember beatings to the point of blood being shed in school

Lots of beatings, yes...but this one went beyond the boundry

10/4/178:59 AM

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RiffRaff posted:
Cobra posted:
I am not condoning violence or corporal punishment on students in school, but what is seen as violence today was considered discipline yesteryear. Parents have less control of thier children today than earlier years. Parents and children are at a crossroad in terms of control and lack of discipline.
Yuji, I guess you are in your early 20's to understand the discipline I am speaking about.
well...I don't know what decade you speaking about...but I don't remember beatings to the point of blood being shed in school
Lots of beatings, yes...but this one went beyond the boundry

This was a brutal abuse of a child.

10/4/179:03 AM

Former Member

I don't know what I would do to a teacher who beat my child like this....they may have to lock me up

10/4/179:07 AM

Former Member

My village had some brutal teachers; one was called 'Battie license' because I guess he felt he had a license to whip boys! Whenever the Education Officer was making regular visits, you should have seen the mad scramble to hide the wild canes!

10/4/179:39 AM

MitwahSenior Member

Concerned parents need to gang up and run him out. These teachers come with their personal problems and frustrations from their homes and take it out on innocent defenceless kids in school.

I would take a 2x4 and beat the crap out of him.

10/4/179:45 AM

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