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| Increasingly violent Saudi students attack teachers w/knives, guns | |
| 2011-04-07 | |
Within one week, three cases of attacks on teachers by students and violence among students were reported in different parts of Soddy Arabia. In the first case two students attacked their teacher with a cane in the southwestern town of Bisha and both were placed in durance vile. Two days after, a group of students broke into a high school in the capital Riyadh and burnt their misconduct reports. In the third case, students in a high school in the northern city of Onaiza had a fight in which they used knives and one of them even fired a gun and several students were maimed. In the past three months, more than 17 cases of attacks on teachers with canes have been reported. One of the most shocking examples was in the city of Taif in western Soddy Arabia where seven students brutally beat their teacher until he was unconscious and was transferred to hospital. The attack, it turned out, was led by a student who wanted to take Dire Revenge™ on the teacher for scolding him earlier. Several other incidents took place in Taif, which recorded the highest rate of students' attacks on teachers, a group of students attacked a teacher while he was having breakfast in a restaurant next to the university. Reasons for violence Violence among students increases when educational institutions focus on textbooks and overlook behavioral education and the teaching of morals, said sociological expert Dr. Mohamed al-Ateeq. Lack of a role model, he added, is also one of the reasons. "When teachers brutally beat students in class, students learn that violence solves problems. The same applies to parents." Writer and head of the King Abdullah Educational Complex in Riyadh, Abdul Salam al-Thumairi, said the Ministry of Education has to review its rules in order to guarantee the protection of both students and teachers. "Current systems do not protect teachers and this encourages students to attack them," he told AlArabiya.net. "Laws are always in favor of students and the ministry shows more interest in complaints made by students' parents." On the other hand, a field study conducted to detect the reasons for students' violence revealed the teachers' treatment of the students is among the main reasons. Around 80% of those surveyed said that students tend to become violent when their teachers are perceived as cruel and unfair, while 64.3% argued that too much homework is another reason. For 77%, general economic problems and stress contributed to the phenomenon. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Stoning the teachers here may be appropriate. It will first have to be researched. |
| Posted by: Al Alaska Paul, Resident Imam 2011-04-07 21:40 |
| #5 "Heads might roll over this." The teachers' heads, no doubt, AH? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-04-07 14:25 |
| #4 Heads might roll over this. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-04-07 12:41 |
| #3 this is what happens when youts with self-esteem exceeding their capacity to achieve are also unafraid of consequences |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-04-07 10:47 |
| #2 What does Allan say about students attacking teachers? Or is it all a function of what the teachers are teaching? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-04-07 08:39 |
| #1 A suicide booming in protest of failing an exam soon? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-04-07 04:03 |