Punished In School

Angry at parents not paying fees, the principal of a school in UP's Siddharthnagar district made more than 50 students sit in the scorching sun outside the gate.

A school teacher in Ahmedabad has been detained by the police after a video of him ruthlessly beating a student in front of his classmates went viral.

Students of a government school in Madhya Pradesh protested on Wednesday against the weird punishment of cleaning the toilet, if they reach the educational institution five to 10 minutes late.

Students at a government school for girls in Bhopal rose up in protest Wednesday claiming they are forced to clean the premises and face harsh punishments for minor infractions, including standing in the baking sun if they are even five minutes late.

It is cruel to subject a child to physical violence in school in the name of discipline or education, the Chhattisgarh High Court has observed while dismissing a petition of a woman teacher accused of abetting the suicide of a student.

While corporal punishment is now looked down upon as a cruel method to discipline children, it was very much a reality for generations that did their schooling decades ago. For Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, it wasn't different either.

Sanju Samson, who was born in Thiruvananthapuram, spent most of his childhood in Delhi and studied at Rosary Senior Secondary School in Mukherjee Nagar.

A video of the incident that has gone viral on social media in China, shows the teacher banging a girl's head on a desk and then punching a boy's face in her office.

When she slowed down, the boy tried to grab the door handle of the car before his mother accelerated. Her action resulted in the boy being pulled under the car and run over by the rear tire.

Cheating is neither an ethical or moral issue, nor a law-and-order problem. In fact, it reflects the nature of our education system in schools and colleges, and the number of opportunities (higher education or jobs) available for young people.

The Centre has introduced a new bill to punish those guilty of leaking exam question papers - whether for school exams, college entrance tests, or applications for government jobs.

The Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (APSCPCR) on Monday expressed anguish over corporal punishment meted out to 20 children in a school in the state recently.

The administrator of an unregistered residential school in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district was booked on Thursday for allegedly branding at least 12 minor students with a hot steel spoon as punishment, police said.

A woman teacher has been suspended after she allegedly punished some students for not paying their school fees in Maharashtra's Thane city, officials said.

A teacher in Maharashtra's Kolhapur was allegedly caught showing porn videos to girl students of classes 9 and 10. As punishment, he has been transferred to another school.

Angry at parents not paying fees, the principal of a school in UP's Siddharthnagar district made more than 50 students sit in the scorching sun outside the gate.

A school teacher in Ahmedabad has been detained by the police after a video of him ruthlessly beating a student in front of his classmates went viral.

Students of a government school in Madhya Pradesh protested on Wednesday against the weird punishment of cleaning the toilet, if they reach the educational institution five to 10 minutes late.

Students at a government school for girls in Bhopal rose up in protest Wednesday claiming they are forced to clean the premises and face harsh punishments for minor infractions, including standing in the baking sun if they are even five minutes late.

It is cruel to subject a child to physical violence in school in the name of discipline or education, the Chhattisgarh High Court has observed while dismissing a petition of a woman teacher accused of abetting the suicide of a student.

While corporal punishment is now looked down upon as a cruel method to discipline children, it was very much a reality for generations that did their schooling decades ago. For Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, it wasn't different either.

Sanju Samson, who was born in Thiruvananthapuram, spent most of his childhood in Delhi and studied at Rosary Senior Secondary School in Mukherjee Nagar.

A video of the incident that has gone viral on social media in China, shows the teacher banging a girl's head on a desk and then punching a boy's face in her office.

When she slowed down, the boy tried to grab the door handle of the car before his mother accelerated. Her action resulted in the boy being pulled under the car and run over by the rear tire.

Cheating is neither an ethical or moral issue, nor a law-and-order problem. In fact, it reflects the nature of our education system in schools and colleges, and the number of opportunities (higher education or jobs) available for young people.

The Centre has introduced a new bill to punish those guilty of leaking exam question papers - whether for school exams, college entrance tests, or applications for government jobs.

The Arunachal Pradesh State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (APSCPCR) on Monday expressed anguish over corporal punishment meted out to 20 children in a school in the state recently.

The administrator of an unregistered residential school in Gujarat's Sabarkantha district was booked on Thursday for allegedly branding at least 12 minor students with a hot steel spoon as punishment, police said.

A woman teacher has been suspended after she allegedly punished some students for not paying their school fees in Maharashtra's Thane city, officials said.

A teacher in Maharashtra's Kolhapur was allegedly caught showing porn videos to girl students of classes 9 and 10. As punishment, he has been transferred to another school.