China Students Abusing Elderly 70 years old teacher

I remember there were news happening in Singapore these few years in which seems to be radical to asian values. Teachers were either complained and sued by Parents when their kids were disciplined involving physical contacts which they considered as physical abuse. At times, these teachers faced school administration problems of being disposed like tissue papers.

What's the problem with our these generation of parents and kids? The kids seemed so pampered.. no need to worry anything and just need to sit in front of the bloody Plasma Screen TV, happily triggering away on their PS3 machine. When their school holidays arrived around the corner, they whine to go overseas to some distant lands, so they can come back and boast to their classmates. If their parents settled anything like Johore Bahru, these kids will most probably end up screeching from Woodlands to Sentosa. I DUN WANT GO TIOOOOOMAAAAAAAAN IIIIIISSSSSSLANNND!!!!!

yuh yuh when your reach 18years old you got ur first babe girl friend, see you want to go a not.

siao eh, I think the first time i took a plane was when i was 15 years old, somemore not to have fun, but to visit relatives in china. My parents brought me up not to ask for things impossible. This generation of parents give to their kids the possible, but forget to equip these kids with the proper sanction of living with moral and values of what is right. So when they grew older, they think they are some big cocks, and they are always right.

Why is the situation reversed so much. If a kid whacks a teacher, it is because he is brought up wrongly, do not know rights from wrongs, at most he's being sent to some boy school to be brainwashed and curfewed. My secondary school teacher, whom we lovingly and fearfully known him as Tiger Tan, was physically attacked when he was out of school. He was my discipline master during my secondary school days. Was this reported in the news? No. Why, students all now big boss now?

Social Issues in our daily lifes to not revolve around what is the best selling stories that a newspaper can report. Sometimes, it is to raise an awareness on things ethical to living. I always feel that I am the last half breed man half breed kuniang army boy after i ORD. To me, all these bunch of kids now in this generation could be considered as kuniangs who complain and whine at the smallest things.. never satisfied.. want the most of out of the least..

A recent article on how students in a high school abused and show disrespect to a 70 yrs old elderly also brought back such thoughts. Maybe the world is rounder, but many kids do not behave properly, and do not understand what can be done and what cannot be done. What happened to the asian values of upbringing we believe in? Has the drive to keep ourselves materialistically rich left our souls empty?

You can blame the west to introduce the idea of capitalism and individualism into our society. But the westerns still do know how to live, and know what is right from wrong? Our generation of people only know how to look at MTVs and think whatever's from there is cool and right. What happened to our sensibility?

maybe because i want to see how people write, maybe because i really am interested in such news, i begin to realise that i had not been paying attention to what's going on in china. -.- below is an article in relation to the abuse of the 70 yrs old teaher in Haidian District, Beijing, China. Its good writing by shanghaiist and dongnanxibei. I hope one day I know what I can write just like them.

source: shanghaiist

The Beijing Haidian District Art Vocational School (北京市海淀区艺术职业学校) has found itself in the centre of a controversy when a video clip of several students abusing a 70-year teacher was circulated online on video sharing sites and enraged netizens across China, sparking a debate over the state of the morals of Chinese youths today. Angry netizens have overwhelmed the school's website (now inaccessible) with comments, and hackers have blacked out the website.

The 5-minute video shot a week ago shows a boy with an earring approach his teacher to pull his cap off, and another student throwing a bottle at the teacher (which missed), while the rest of the students were laughing away or sleeping. The clip also included very colourful language from the students, eg., "That is a stupid c*nt. Kill him!" [那是一傻比，弄死他！]

EastSouthWestNorth tells us of the ensuing manhunt, started by netizens on the Tianya and MOP forums:

On the afternoon of May 26, a campaign began to identify these students. Both the Tianya and MOP forums started their human flesh search engines (人肉搜索引擎). At 6pm, a Tianya netizen noted that the blackhoard had the national flag of Uzbekistan with words of welcome for the friends from there. This netizen searched for visits by Uzbekistan groups and found about the staff of the Ubzekistan embassy being invited to visit the Art School in Haidian district, Beijing. Meanwhile another netizen had broken the passwode of the female student who posted the video and found many photographs and related information. The netizens were able to pinpoint a particular class in the Haidian Art School. In the evening of May 26, the names and telephone numbers of several students in the video were published.

This online rage soon spilled over to the real world when a group of netizens took it upon themselves to hunt down the students. They went down to the school and stopped a school bus that was taking some of the above-mentioned students home, demanding that they step out of the bus. The confrontation only ended when the school security guards came over and enabled the bus to leave.

In the meanwhile, Jiefang Daily reports that the 70-year old teacher Sun Xinmao (孙辛卯), who was hired in 2003 and is paid RMB40 per lesson, said the students have already apologised, and there was no need to pursue the matter. He says that he was only verbally abused by the students and remained physically unharmed, and added, "The education of students takes place over a process. Teachers should bear some responsibility if the students remains uneducated." [学生的教育有一个过程。老师没有把学生教好，也是有责任的。]

*Image from EastSouthWestNorth.