EPOCH is a new national organization which aims to end physical punishment of children by parents and other carers. Now that hitting has been almost eliminated in schools and child care institutions, it is time to end it in the home as well.
EPOCH hopes to achieve its aim through public education, research and legal reforms. EPOCH wants to see changes in attitudes to children; to see children recognized as people - and recognition that it is as wrong to hurt a child as it is to hurt another adult. Far from having a right or even a duty to hit children, parents have a right to information about non-violent ways of bringing up their children, and a duty to discipline them with their heads and hearts rather than with their hands or implements. EPOCH will work with and for parents and other organization to promote non-violent, positive methods of bringing up children.
The law protects the rest of us from violence at the hands of anyone else. Why shouldn't it protect children too?
EPOCH believes that ending physical punishment will have many positive effects:
* children can only achieve their full potential when they are recognized as individual people with rights of their own;
* the current acceptance of physical punishment helps to cause more serious child abuse;
* even `light' physical punishment can unintentionally cause significant injuries to small children;
* children who are hit by their parents learn that violent solutions are acceptable and are more likely in turn to hit their own children. Violence breeds violence.
What's so wrong with hitting children?
Better to ask ';what's right about it?'; Everybody agrees it is morally wrong to settle arguments between adult people with blows. But children are people too. Why should they of all people lack equal protection from all forms of violence - particularly when they are among the most vulnerable physically?
Physical punishments are not only morally wrong, they don't work either. A whack on the bottom may stop children for that moment. But it won't stop them doing the same thing later on because being hit does not teach them anything useful. It doesn't teach them how you want them to behave, and it doesn't teach them to try to please you. Research evidence shows that children who have been slapped or hit are usually so overwhelmed with anger and hurt feelings that they cannot remember what they were punished forWhat do i do as a parent when a teacher hits my child?
Your welcome , when i was a kid in school my teachers used to beat me , but luckly I was a girl . I ve see the news about children getting depressed by the teachers torture or insults and they commit sucide. I want to be a part of stoping this torture of children by the teachers.
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complain it in the media.. go to the site.. you will find the names of the news channel and other media... send a email to them regarding the school... and see what happens next.. as if you want to fight - fight for al the other children's too...
take her out of the school and homeschool your child
If the principal is always unavailable go to the education board and make sure that you have proof, this is a blantant disregard for the rules of being a teacher and any teacher that hits a child needs to be sacked. If there are other children being hit by the teacher get their parents involved also, power in numbers.
i would never let another person hit my child in the first place that alone means you have let it get to far!
If it was me i would give this teacher a taste of there own medicine and i would wipe the floor with them.
call the person over the principal
If it not your culture for the teachers to hit your child, them hit them back.......two rights that good
With draw your child from the school and file a lawsuit. This principal is not stepping up to the plate. She's letting this teacher get by with things she shouldn't.
JACKIE F is right, I would go and knock them out. I can't believe a parent would stand back and let that happen. I certainly WOULDN'T.
Unavailable? HUH, I'd SORT out unavailable.
Grab a weapon and parents and storm the place. Drag the teachers to the street, make them naked and make them stand on one leg holding big books above their heads for 4 hours. Take pictures.
I need more facts, I'll explain. Is the teacher abusing your child for no reason or is your child behaving badly all the time? I attended my first 2 years of school in Romania where at that time punishment from the teacher was common if you did something bad. Finishing school here in the US kids were very disrespectful to their teacher, mouthing off, cursing and even hitting. So how does that teach a child to respect other people especially their senior. Don't get me wrong, the parents should teach a child respect before they even get to school but as we all know that doesn't always happen.
So my answer is find out more detail, if the teacher is abusing your child go further then the principal, keep going till your reach the highest person in charge but if your child is bad maybe you need to something about that.
file a police report and have her arrested.
where the hell are you from? It probaly legal to hit your kid.
If corporal punishment is not allowed, then report it to the school board or the police.
Call the DHS right now ...I would I would not wait another sec.
I have searched Chinmaya Vidyalaya and also Virugambakkam.
This is found to be in India in the south.
In this country, the protection from abuse is dyerbolical.
If you can speak English, then I would assume you can travel or live in such countries.
I would consider taking your girl out of India to an English speaking country that has lawas against this treatment.
I do not know if the authorities would arrest the teacher, or what can be done.
You should try seeing authorities above the teachers and head-teachers.
If not, there is no other option as a last resort, to force the teacher to stop your self.
i.e. For self defence or the defence of your little girl, threaten the teacher in some way, but ensure that you do not get found out!
It also worth considering a different school, but this could just result in the same problems.
tell the school board, the media, anybody who will listen. Or go to the teacher and lay Hell on her.
report the teacher to children services and police
Go over their head go to the superintendent,then if he or she doesn't do anything go to the school board,if that doesn't work take it to the board of education! if nothing happens then tell them you are going to get a lawyer!It's up to you and they don't want anyone to be able to correct their own children at home then when they get old enough to go to school they call them brats and hit them there.
I have found that in India theres mixed feelings about physical disclipline at schools. Some schools and even parents feel that teacher have the right to hit kids under the guise of disciplining them. The overcrowding in the education system means that teachers are more valued than the students, Hence your principal probably reluctant to let go of the teacher, in case another qualified one is hard to find. As in the rest of the world, teachers are usually underpaid and really under tremendous pressure- the classrooms sometimes have 70 kids stuffed into them. So while its not acceptable, it is understandable that the teacher would resort to the easiest means to controll the class.
But the issue is that it is legally banned in India to physically discipline the child. And how strongly do you feel about it? At a pinch are you willing to take your children out of the school? So you can and should gather the parents and go to the police, keeping in mind that at worst your kids might be asked to leave the school.
Either...
1. Take your child out of the school. However you pronounce it...
2. If corporal punishment is legal in the school, you should have thought about that before sending them to the school.
3. If they send home notes (like they do here asking permission to spank your child) sign the freaking note ';no';.
4. Sadly, complaining about it to the principal isn't going to really work because it's your word against the teacher's. Unless the teacher left a bruise, you don't have anything. I know it sucks. But that's the way it is. Principals will only respond to proof, and that's if they even care at all.
You should go to the police and have her charged with asult, she is violating your daughters human rights.
go to the cops
child services, cops, board of ed
they will fire the teacher
teachers have this thing with let them not get fired but if they hit, then they get fired so do that
Report the teacher to the board of education and police! Go down there and talk to the teacher and tell her or him that she or he is NEVER to TOUCH your child again or they will be JAILED!
Complain and let them know how you feel about your children being hit and mistreated!! Make sur eyou MAKE A POINT!!
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