Egypt school beating 'kills boy'

[Afshin]

BBC - An Egyptian teacher at a primary school in Alexandria is alleged to have beaten an 11-year-old pupil to death, according to local newspaper reports.

The maths teacher, Haitham Nabeel Abdelhamid, who worked at Saad Othman school, was furious because Islam Amro had not finished his homework.

After using a ruler to punish him, the teacher is alleged to have taken the young boy outside the classroom.

Mr Abdelhamid is then alleged to have hit the boy violently in his stomach.

The young pupil fainted and was taken to hospital where he died after a sharp drop in blood pressure and heart failure.

The teacher is reported to have told the prosecutor that he was only trying to "discipline the boy, not to kill him".

Mr Abdelhamid was remanded in custody on manslaughter charges.

[ali_europe]

sad story....but I think strories like this happens in lot of undeveloped countries.....it remind me on things happened in IRANIAN schools.. I was myself many time being punished by teachers using their rulers on my hands for really crapy reasons.......and I was pronbally one of luckiest ones.....there were lot of cases of real cruel punishment happening daily in lot of iranian schools

[aliirooni]

 

boy this really broke my heard!

I remember one of my classmates fainted when Biology teacher of mine in highschool beat him up for cheating on the test!

In third world countries beating students and fear is a method that teachers use alot and it sucks because when kids get older they hate the subject and at times they want to beat up the teachers too

[Afshin]

beating school kids up only puts them off school and studying, it is so counter-productive, imaging a teacher punching an 11 year old pupil in the estomach, will that make the kid interested in school and education or would that put him off education for life!