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Corporal Punishment
Thai teacher filmed beating students
A teacher in Thailand has been fired after he was secretly filmed beating students with a cane wrapped in electrical wire.
A TEACHER IN Thailand has been fired after a video of him beating students with a cane wrapped in electrical wire was released.
The video, which was secretly filmed by another student using his mobile phone, shows the teacher violently hitting three students. The students subsequently gave Thai media photographs of their scarred buttocks.
The art teacher, who was working at St Mary’s School in Nakhon Ratchasima province, was reportedly punishing his students for not cleaning their rooms properly.
Nongkran Prathumtri, an administer at the school, confirmed that the teacher had been fired and added: “He must be responsible for his wrongdoing… There will be no protection from the school”.
The teacher has not yet been charged with any crime by police.
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