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What message is the court sending unscrupulous teacher in Government and private missionary schools where teachers beat students literally to their death or maim them for life? Is it all right for a teacher to make a 6 year old stand in the hot sun till it faints and dies of heart stroke? Is it all right for teachers to hit 10 year olds leaving permanent marks on their tender skin? Is it all right for teachers to pull the ears of 8 year olds deafening them?
It is one thing to say that parents cannot hold teachers responsible for non-violent methods of disciplining such as detention, extra work, retention, expelling, etc. And, it is entirely another and a very irresponsible one at that, to say that teachers can beat children without recourse to law.
What sense does it make to have corporal violence in this day and age in the land of Mahatma Gandhi? The Human Resources Ministry should frame laws that would permanently efface these offensive and archaic laws from our legal system.
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