What did the girl go through? Can the girl pick up the glass from the ground and slide it towards her wrist and neck several times without hesitation? After two days of cessation, the school bullying resumed. There is no end.
On the morning of April 22, for an anxious father, the sun did not bring a trace of comfort. In a heartbreaking post online, he recounted the tragedy of bullying at Xiya Middle School in Yuelu District, Changsha, Hunan Province.
The scene described was quite tragic: several girls gathered his daughter in a corner of the classroom, mercilessly slapped her cheeks and pulled her hair. The child's body was covered with scars, and the pain was indescribable. All these cruel images happen to innocent children, making it impossible to look at them directly.
The father's voice conveyed a sense of desperation through words: "She is only a child, how can she bear this kind of torture?" Now, the daughter's patience has reached the limit and she is forced to take extreme actions - in the process of being abused by the bully, she picks up a shard of glass and cuts her own throat. It was only when blood flowed out that those people stopped.
Upon learning of all this, the family immediately called the police. According to the father's records, the child was violently attacked three times in a week, including the one on April 16 that lasted for two hours. After the father called the police, the police quickly intervened and opened an investigation into the incident on April 19, and the next night, the eight suspects were taken to the police station.
Although the suspect was released after 24 hours in custody, the police investigation is ongoing. Parents anxiously awaited justice and their children's medical reports were made public. From the diagnosis certificate, it can be seen that the child has multiple open wounds on the wrist and neck, especially the muscle part of the right wrist has been severely broken, and there are also friction injuries on the face and scalp hematoma.
After all this happened, the relevant departments of Xiangjiang New District, to which the school belongs, also began to take action, saying that they would investigate the matter in depth and take corresponding measures according to the results of the investigation. Still, for a family that has been traumatized, nothing can be done to heal their pain. Every corner of society is watching this incident and hoping for a just solution.
The incident took place at Xiya Middle School in Changsha, Hunan Province, where the girl could not bear to be bullied many times, and finally chose to injure herself with the glass she picked up.
According to people familiar with the matter, this is not the first time the girl has been bullied. As early as the summer vacation of 2023, she was beaten by her classmates for nearly half an hour. Then in October 2023, her phone was stolen and then intimidated. In March and April 2024, she was beaten twice, one in the early hours of April 16 that lasted more than two hours.
The seriousness of the situation caught the attention of the police, and the Lugu police station opened a case on April 16. Three days later, the case was escalated to a criminal case. Surprisingly, however, even though the bullying was severe, the suspect was released after 24 hours in custody, and there has been no communication or update since.
As the incident continues to ferment, the staff of the Propaganda Department of the Changsha Municipal Party Committee said that they are paying attention to the progress and will announce the results after the investigation is over. But the public didn't buy the response, and many people discussed it fiercely online.
In addition, there are voices that quote the remarks of Principal Zhu of Hanjiang High School in Xiangyang City, who advocated in public: "When you encounter bullying, don't be afraid of your first reaction, and fight bravely." ”
As for the current situation of the injured person, according to the latest news, she has been sent to Hunan Aerospace Hospital for treatment, and doctors have diagnosed her with an open injury to her chest, a partial rupture of the flexor muscle of her right wrist and multiple open wounds on her neck, and recommended that she continue to be hospitalized.
Not long ago, a parent in Xinxiang, Henan Province, went to the school to stop and beat the student who bullied his daughter.
On April 22, 2024, the Education and Sports Bureau of Muye District, Xinxiang City, unveiled the prelude to a shocking beating incident at the school gate in a bulletin. The report pointed out that a 9-year-old boy was beaten by the parents of a classmate at the school gate, and the incident was not just a simple conflict, but originated from a long-term dispute between students, which eventually caused one parent to lose control of his emotions.
After the incident, the police quickly intervened and detained and fined the abusive parents. After the incident was dealt with, the parents of both sides also reached an understanding, and the Education Bureau removed the head teacher of the student involved, and seriously held the person in charge of the school and the person in charge of safety accountable.
However, as the details of the incident came to light further, the public's mood and perception changed dramatically. It turned out that the boy who was beaten had been bullying the niece of the parent for a long time at school, and the parent repeatedly reported to the school for help to no avail, and finally took the wrong behavior when he lost control of his emotions.
Although this kind of behavior of "countering violence with violence" is difficult to establish in legal theory, it has won the understanding and support of some netizens to a certain extent. Some netizens commented, "Although it is wrong to hit someone, in desperation, parents take measures that they think are necessary." This change in mood makes people ponder, what is it that makes an ordinary parent come to this point?
In the circular, the phrase "students have disputes in the course of getting along with each other" seems to be too vague and understated. In fact, the dispute involved stemmed from a dispute between two children over a small toy, and this seemingly trivial matter eventually evolved into a serious security incident. This begs the question of whether the school has been negligent in its handling of student conflicts and parent grievances.
Although the response of the relevant departments of Xinxiang City is serious, it is puzzling why the conflict outside the school makes the school administrators face accountability? Does this mean that there is indeed an unknown problem of school bullying in the school, and if so, is it enough to simply remove the class teacher and hold the relevant personnel accountable?
In recent years, similar incidents of bullying in schools have been common, and news of parents taking extreme measures has occurred from time to time. Behind these incidents is the twin dilemma of loopholes in school management and the lack of effective avenues for parents to complain in times of desperation.
But any bloody parent will protect his child like an enraged lion. This is true. In a small town in China, such a scene is not uncommon. Imagine when a parent finds out that their child is being bullied at school, that sense of anger and helplessness can push them to an extreme reaction.
If you think about it carefully, our reasonable and legal choices are actually very limited, and they are nothing more than these: changing classes, changing schools, finding teachers, finding schools, finding police, and finding other parents. These methods sound formal, but in reality, they often seem inadequate. Nowadays, there are more and more underage bullies and juvenile offenders, many of whom are cruel, which also has to remind us that it is really urgent to solve this problem.
All of us expect to address bullying incidents that can be stopped as soon as they are discovered, and that bullying is nip in its infancy, rather than reactive when it is already serious or hotly debated.
When a parent does not hesitate to risk breaking the law to teach a bully a lesson, it shows that there are indeed loopholes in our laws and regulations, and the entire education supervision system is seriously negligent. In this case, does every parent have to be a lion and take care of their children's safety themselves?