I think it is Disgusting.....

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See, I cannot even find the proper words. I made a foreign friend, a Filipino to be precise. We were having a casual chat once and the topic drifted to our schooldays. He recounted that during a class, his teacher was explaining something and he (my friend) stood up and said, " the thing which you are explaining is wrong, I have studied that and it should be like this...." That teacher of his met him during a reunion and admitted that he was wrong on that day but couldn't just admit it in front of the whole class of students. After listening to him my first and spontaneous reaction was, if it were me, I would have got a tight slap across my face and would have been listening to the agonizing "hmmmmm like sound when everything goes blank" for the next couple of minutes. He with a frown was surprised and told me that it is illegal to hit a child by the teachers. I think it is not the Philippines alone where you cannot lay your hands as a freewill on a child. Unfortunately, my country doesn’t restrict the teachers to do so. During my school days there was this Physical training (P.T.) teacher who was regarded as a monster by the students of my school. (Ironically, my school was said to be the Best school in town. Parents could do anything for their child getting admitted in our school). But things were worse when I was in Junior college. It was a new batch and all the students were sitting for an orientation programme, there were about 170 students in the hall. Somebody from the back whistled. The lecturer went so mad that at random he caught a guy whom he “thought” might have whistled and kept on hitting him till the student fell on the floor. That was the first day we got to meet our real teachers where we would be spending the coming two years.. The beatings continued, and later on some students became the hot favorites for the teachers. Strangely, I observed along with my friends, those who were extremely weak were never hit nor those guys who were very tall and sturdy looking as they (the teachers) would fear that they might retaliate. Some of my classmates got the beatings of a lifetime. Some students took transfer after the first year or even within first year. The rest like me were counting the 2 years to get over. I happened to see one of my ex- teachers after a long time in a CA’s office. He didn’t seem to recognize me, but looking at him made me like to spit on him. But I couldn’t, I am supposed to be freakin civilized. I wouldn’t ask for a pardon for my language. You haven’t done your home work you would be hit, cannot solve a mathematical problem get a slap, cannot perform the physics experiment on those weird looking apparatus which you have seen for the first time in your life well, get a tight lash on your back which should turn so sore within an hour that you cannot withstand the pain. Those were the most amazingly, dreadful years of my student life. I don’t know why, I don’t know how, I got to write this thing down today. But it takes courage to even pen down your thoughts especially horrid memories like those. Recently, I even read in the news paper that the girl students of a Government school were stripped down (aged 6-7 years) for not doing their home-work. Then these stark naked children would be paraded in the school ground. Things couldn’t turn better than that! What do you think should be suitable enough to PUNISH them? A child is supposed to learn from the teachers about knowledge, moral, wisdom. Learning from “Them” makes us learn everything except what we really should. What about your country? Do you have any similar stories to share?