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jay-shi
Joined: 09 May 2004
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 Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 6:14 am Post subject: China aghast at video of students abusing teacher |
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Story here : http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070529072143.3ltag6mm&show_article=1
Video here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kFlMK2dcMwM
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China aghast at video of students abusing teacher
May 29 03:21 AM US/Eastern
A video of two students abusing a 70-year-old teacher has created an Internet controversy in China and brought the morals of the nation's youths into question, state press said Tuesday.
The video, shot by a student at a Beijing school a week ago, shows a boy sporting an earring approach his teacher and slam the man's hat down over his face before returning to his seat, the Beijing News reported.
Later another boy threw a plastic bottle at the teacher as students in the classroom burst out laughing, it said.
The five-minute video was later posted on a blog and picked up by numerous websites, drawing angry outbursts from web surfers shocked at the audacity of the Chinese youths.
Some even went to the school to reprimand the students and express support for the professor, the paper said.
The professor, Sun Xingmao, who teaches history, politics and geography at the vocational school, did not want to discuss the incident, saying the students had already apologised and been excused, it said.
To many Chinese, the incident is likely to act as an uncomfortable reminder of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, which saw similar scenes of students humiliating and beating up their teachers.
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:27 am Post subject: |
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| They're little punks to be sure, but I think they only get away with what the teacher lets them get away with. The old boy looked a bit ineffectual in managing a classroom, and seemed to be intimidated by the boys. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Boy, that kid has a future of knocking off Microsoft CDs until he's caught in a crackdown and then a bullet in the back of a neck.
I don't see why the teacher just didn't eject the kid from class. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Since this guy lived through the cultural revolution, it's not surprising he was afraid of disciplining his students. |
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Vicissitude
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Chef School
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| Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:53 am Post subject: |
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So much for the claim that Asians respect their elders - it's part of the culture.  Yeah, yeah, sure it is! |
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