Boy Jumps From Window After Teacher Warned Him Over Homework
by Beth on Saturday, November 9, 2013
by Beth on Saturday, November 9, 2013
In January this year, investigations revealed that a student had committed suicide over corporal punishment by his coach, and education committees all over the country have been keen to get to the source of the issue of bullying culture in their districts.
Now, a story has emerged about an 11 year old boy who threw himself from a 4th floor bathroom window after a teacher berated him for not submitting his homework, bringing the issue of how teachers treat their students to the fore once more.
In this case, however, netizens say that the student was being overly sensitive, and that the teacher is certainly not at fault. What do you think?
From Yomiuri Shimbun:
Year 6 Student Seriously Injured After Falling From Window Had Been Warned “Don’t Treat Your Homework Like It’s A Joke!”
According to Kanawgawa Prefectural Police, the boy is assumed to have fallen from the window in the fourth-floor toilets of the school. He was rushed to a hospital in the city, but has serious injuries over his body, including a fractured skull, and is unconscious and in a critical condition.
The prefectural education committee say that after the boy had finished his home-time activities, when the children were doing their committee activities in a separate classroom, the homeroom teacher had two children remain in the classroom and cautioned them for forgetting their homework. One of the boys ran to the toilet in front of the classroom.
When after a few minutes the teacher went to see where the boy was, he discovered him collapsed on the ground 12 metres below the toilet window.
The distance between the floor and the window is around 1m, and the window had a 20cm guard to prevent the children from falling out. Saiwai police are investigating based on the assumption that because there was no one else in the toilet at that time, the boy must have jumped out of the window.
According to classmates, even during the activities before the student committee meeting, the teacher had warned this boy “Don’t treat your homework like it’s a joke!”. They also said that the boy had told them “I’m going to jump off the building then”.
