Video of teacher caning student gets backing from Thai netizens.

Teacher caning student clip goes viral

Published: 5 Mar 2013 at 12.03
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A video clip of a school teacher repeatedly beating a student with a cane has drawn more positive responses than negative ones from Thai netizens.

In the 43-second video, uploaded to Youtube on Monday by PutDejudomVEVO, the teacher scolded her student for not doing his homework, viciously caning him many times.

According to reports, the incident took place at Ban Noen Phlapwan School in Pattaya, Chon Buri province.

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siamitude
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Discussion 53 : 08 Mar 2013 at 10.0953
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This happens every day in many Thai school... and you wonder why Thai people have very low self confidence.
Dictatorship's legacy tactic : make people fearful of beating instead of strong and independent.
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Discussion 52 : 06 Mar 2013 at 12.1152
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It's heartwarming and important that people still love their old Grans even after all the abuse they suffered from them.

More importantly though is the distinction between a caning and a canning.
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Discussion 51 : 06 Mar 2013 at 08.1051
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Khun Somnamna #48, I thought it was an absolute joke when my grandmother kept saying "This hurts me more than it hurts you," while whipping my butt so hard. But as I became matured, that I knew the true meaning of what she meant. The whipping stopped after I reached a certain age after her "Do & Don't" was already ingrained in my butt. Today, I am very fond of my grandmother and she is equally fond of me. Now, she loves to tell my story to her great grandchildren of how she raised me. Today, other people, often, can't believe that I was such a "criminal" as a boy, but I sure was. Thank God for her canes and unconditional love though!
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Discussion 50 : 06 Mar 2013 at 07.5550
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Khun Felixqui #47, my grandmother laid out a list of "Do & Don't" in her household in such a way that there was no misunderstanding if I trespassed it. My first offense would receive a verbal warning but any repeated offenses after that would result in a sharp pain in my butt. Among all of her grandchildren, I was the most rebellious and destructive one, whom she often called a "criminal," never mind that my dad was a police officer. She was in essence teaching me to respect and obey her "Law" which was a simplified version of our Rules of Law. Without her canes, there is a good chance I would end up being a real criminal, you know!
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Discussion 49 : 06 Mar 2013 at 07.5249
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violence is creating violence, nothing else, ok, maybe submissiveness, but no intelligence, no understanding and no peace. I was never beaten as a child, neither from my parents, nor from my teachers (not true, once an old ww2 army dickhead turned teacher hit my hands with a cane in front of the class - he put some hate into my heart - not very good) - remember: The biggest success in life is happiness. you'll never helping your kids to achieve that goal by beating them.
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Discussion 48 : 06 Mar 2013 at 07.4448
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Canning wouldn't do much good, I was canned many times for just forgetting to memorize some Quranic verses and look at me today, pure atheist.
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Discussion 47 : 06 Mar 2013 at 07.3347
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Spiceman,
We can forgive old grannies for not knowing better that what they did was wrong, but there can be no excuse for doing the same today.

We can also forgive Jefferson for owning slaves. It was still wrong, merely understandable. It cannot be forgiven today, any more than any other violation of basic rights. We are well past the stage where ignorance be an excuse.
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Discussion 46 : 06 Mar 2013 at 07.2046
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Khun Zulu #42, I think you are getting confused between disciplining a child and protecting innocent lives. As I said before in Dise 20, that I often found myself at the receiving end of my grandmother and teachers' canes when I was a boy many decades ago. Of course, I hated it back then, but now, I am glad they whipped my butt pretty good, because, I doubt I would become the kind of person that I am today without their canes. Of course, I grew up hating her but as I was maturing, I love her more and more. Now, I thank God for having her as my grandmother!
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Discussion 45 : 06 Mar 2013 at 07.1245
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It is child abuse, and had the student fought back, it would have been perfectly justified self-defence against a monster.

If the teacher cannot convey that there is any value in doing Thai homework, then the failure to do it is her fault. But very likely, there is no real point in wasting time on Thai homework.

And what was the homework exactly? Something intelligent, or a perfectly pointless copying exercise that a dog could be trained to do?
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Discussion 44 : 06 Mar 2013 at 07.0244
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D41 spiceman....Yes, and all the other countries around the world that have almost zero corruption and crime that don't hit children are wrong, right? It takes a society to raise a child, if the society is broken what hope does the child have.
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