VietNamNet Bridge – School violence has become more serious with many more violence cases discovered. Students not only assaulted classmates, but they also brought lethal weapons to schools and threatened teachers.

The bullies in the school uniform

It is recognized as a school of national standards, but Dong Kinh Secondary School in Lang Son province has become famous not for its educational achievements, but for its number of school violence cases.

Nguyen Van Dai, 16, a 9th grader, related that he was attacked by a group of students right in the middle of the school yard. At 3pm of November 24, when Dai was holding the mobile phone of a classmate, he received a call from someone who called and insulted him. Tens minutes later, more than ten boys came to the school and repeatedly kicked him.

A lot of students witnessed the fight, but no one dared to intervene or prevent the boys from fighting. The gangsters only left after they knocked the boy unconscious. Luckily, Dai was brought to the Lang Son hospital and he has been recovering.

According to Dai, among the strikers, there were four 10th graders from Viet Bac High School in Lang Son province.

Student threatened teacher with knife

On November 3, in a geography lesson, La Trung S, an 8th grader, refused listen to the teacher and made disturbances in the class. Teacher Dang Minh Thai asked S to keep silent, but S ignored. S ate oranges  in the middle of class and talked back to the teacher.

Teacher Thai, who was very angry at that time, said: “Are you also this misbehaved at home?”. Then S threw a book into the teacher. Returning to the class after reporting the case to the school’s management board, Thai was stunned when seeing S, who stood on the way with a knife.

Even the school’s security officers could not control S. Meanwhile, some students related that S threatened to damage the school if he is expelled from school.

Society keeps indifferent to school violence?

In the police report filed by Tran Nguyen Hong Anh, a 11th grader of Viet Bac High School , on September 26, V.A, a classmate, and five other female students came to Hong Anh’s house, where the group of female students sprayed Hong Anh with tear gas and beat Hong Anh with a motorbike helmet.

Tran Kim Chung, mother of Hong Anh, related that one week after Anh submitted the report, Tam Thanh ward’s police told Chung that since there were no witnesses or evidence, the police could not follow the case. Only after Chung tried to find witnesses and submitted further reports, have the police begun the investigation.

“Now I want to get the report about the investigation result, but the police have refused,” she said.

It seems that people keep indifferent viewpoints about the school violence. The case, where teacher Dang Minh Thai was threatened with a knife by a student, has made educators furious. However, people and agencies have different opinions about how to deal with the student. The school’s management board said that it would be better to “save” the student by giving him one more chance. Meanwhile, other people believe that the student needs to be heavily punished. When a group of Tien phong newspaper’s reporters said they wanted to interview Thai, the teacher was still in fear because she was still under too much pressure.

Source: Tien phong