Remember a video from a few years ago? The video of "20 years later, the roadblock fan teacher slapped" went viral.
Chang Mou, a 33-year-old man in Luanchuan County, Luoyang, Henan Province, stopped the junior high school teacher on the road and recorded a video, and slapped the teacher 5 times.
He said the teacher was mainly beaten because his family was poor 20 years ago and was humiliated and corporalally punished by the teacher.
"It's wrong to beat people, but the teacher is at least half responsible, and there are many people who help him testify."
Sure enough, nearly 150 local village names recently signed a joint signature to explain the situation and support Chang. The signed materials said that Chang mou usually respected the elderly and loved the children in the village, helped the poor and the poor, and often donated money to the villagers in difficulty, while the teacher Zhang Mou did have excessive corporal punishment, and a few months ago, he encountered retaliation from another student.
At present, the beater Chang Mou has been criminally detained, and the teacher who was beaten has returned to school to teach.
Many netizens expressed their understanding of the hitter and fell into the common memory of the "evil teacher".
So many people beat you, that's your problem;
You were not a teacher at the beginning, but now you are playing really well! Do not deceive the poor youth;
Some teachers are indeed unworthy;
Hitting people to retaliate is absolutely wrong, no one can solve the problem through violence, let alone 20 years later, can the beater really solve the hatred in his heart? It's hard to say.
Chinese has always respected teachers, and many teachers work hard, have low incomes, and carry the risk of being beaten by students.
But why is it that this time, many netizens are on the side of the beaters?
The only answer is that such teachers are really hateful, and there are many such hateful teachers.
On Weibo, many netizens recalled the hateful experience of being destroyed by their teachers:
There is also a question on Zhihu: Is the bad teacher you met bad? The more than 20,000 answers below are shocking.
This news is essentially not a story of "a gentleman's revenge, 20 years is not too late", but a microcosm of the deformed and distorted relationship between teachers and students in Chinese education.
When I saw this question, the first reaction in my mind was that of her—my high school homeroom teacher, the most vicious teacher, not one of them.
Although it has been a long time since I graduated, the psychological damage she has brought to me can never be erased.
She is not bothered by the classmates who are related and send money three times a day, and she is extremely tolerant; if it is not related, no matter whether the study is good or bad, if she makes a little mistake, she will die.
A girl who was more skinny in her first year of high school took her a sentence and was constantly looking for stubble and forcing her to leave school and go home;
There was also a girl who didn't know how to offend her, and every day before going to her class, she would say "xxx you stand in the back!" During class, he scolded for no reason until the girl was in a trance.
There was an art loan student who drew more than 20 drawings for our class to design the class flag. She couldn't look at it, saying that all he had drawn was garbage, and the student was so angry that he sent a long text message scolding her. Then she scolded us with two political lessons in the morning.
She organizes private tuition classes, 200 yuan per hour, which is really a burden for working families, but if you don't go to tuition, you will be tortured as much as possible.
There are also many ways to torture, such as forcing girls who come to menstruation to participate during winter long-distance running, resulting in poor health.
If she didn't do well on one of the tests, she would definitely put the reason down to the fact that the students were stupid and couldn't learn well.
I don't know if you have ever had that experience, where your conviction, strength, and dignity have been suddenly crushed and you have begun to believe that you can't do it.
Whoever encounters such a teacher is a disaster.
Some people may say, "It's been so many years." People who say this certainly have not personally experienced the devastating effects of an exterminating teacher on students.
Some people also said, "The teacher was also for your own good." Pull it down, how much violence and insults are under the guise of "good for you".
The United Nations Global Survey on Violence against Children has conducted a survey on child violence in college and secondary school students in six provinces and cities of Beijing, Guangdong, Shaanxi, Hubei, Zhejiang and Heilongjiang, in the form of reviewing their experiences before the age of 16, and data show that 69.8% of people have been subjected to corporal punishment by teachers in primary schools and 31% in junior high schools.
I estimate that the actual data is higher than this, and corporal punishment is common in the vast rural areas. The stick education of "no beating, no instrument" is believed by countless parents and teachers.
How harmful is corporal punishment? In addition to physical harm, it is more of a shadow caused by the acquired psychology.
Those who are mild in magnitude have lost interest in learning, and their studies have been abandoned at an early age, giving up the road of learning.
The severity of the degree, resulting in the development of acquired personality deformities in students, corporal punishment in public, is likely to bring symptoms similar to PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) to children. Some personalities become stubborn and extreme, and some are cowardly and hypocritical.
I am very suspicious of Chang Mou in the news, although he is in his 30s, he still lives in the shadow of corporal punishment by his teacher, and may have some personality problems.
Corporal punishment does not improve children's bad habits at all, but only greatly destroys the sense of trust and intimacy between people.
Excessively, parents and teachers use corporal punishment as an excuse to abuse their children and vent their emotions.
Canadian scholars have conducted the world's largest survey on the impact of corporal punishment on children's future physical and mental health. Children who are subjected to corporal punishment are twice as likely to use drugs and alcohol as normal children, and are greatly more likely to develop anxiety disorders, antisocial tendencies, and depression.
Therefore, I am firmly opposed to any form of corporal punishment. This is both a protection for students and a protection for teachers, and without the corporal punishment of the year, this revenge would not have happened at all.
At present, there is also a reality that more teachers are discouraged from punishing students, and even dare not criticize, and do not seek merit but no fault in the management of students.
It is no wonder that teachers are already a high-risk profession.
In March 2015, a fourth-grade boy from a primary school in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, injured his teacher and was admitted to the hospital because the art teacher urged him to pay homework;
In 2014 in Ludian, Yunnan, some students of Ludian No. 1 Middle and High School publicly humiliated the class teacher, but it was over, and two weeks later, there was an incident of junior high school students beating the history teacher, resulting in a fracture of the beaten teacher's eye socket, and finally the teachers of the school were all in danger and collectively "vacationed".
Teachers are more and more afraid to take care of students, schools are afraid of accidents, more teachers can only give up the responsibility of education, and the last to be hurt is still the children.
As a result, the call for "corporal punishment of students" in society has become louder and louder, advocating "returning the power of corporal punishment of children to primary and secondary schools", believing that "occasional corporal punishment of students is necessary" and "teachers dare not manage students, which is the sadness of education".
Education is inseparable from punishment, and teachers without disciplinary power cannot restrain students, but the question is, who will supervise the degree of punishment?
Is it either corporal punishment or just letting it go? The solution of the two extremes shows that the teacher-student relationship has indeed become extremely distorted.
The crux of the matter is that teachers need the right to discipline, and the degree of punishment is still difficult to grasp in the context of the degree of professionalization of teachers and the need to improve their moral quality.
My understanding is that the two prerequisites for discipline must be: the student has made a mistake, and the punishment should be moderate.
But the problem is that when teachers discipline students, there is often no standard, depending on personal feelings, which is why corporal punishment brings great harm to students.
In June 2002, neighboring South Korea published the "Foreshadowing of School Life Regulations", which stipulates how teachers can discipline students as follows:
Before the punishment is imposed, the student should be explained the reason for the clean-up; the student's physical and mental state should be inspected before the punishment is implemented, and if necessary, the punishment may be postponed; the student may propose to replace the punishment with compulsory labor in the school; the punishment must be carried out in the presence of the school supervisor and the life guidance teacher.
With clear regulations, it is worth referring to both the protection of students from abuse and the right of teachers to discipline.
But at this stage, I am still firmly opposed to "corporal punishment of students". Because it is difficult to define the boundaries of "occasional corporal punishment", and there is no guarantee that corporal punishment will be beneficial to the growth of students.
Recommend a book called Positive Discipline. One of the ideas in this book is that punishment doesn't really work for students. For children and students to be followers of truth and principles, motivation must come from inner self-control, that is, self-discipline must be learned.
Both punishment and reward come from external control.