4 Year Old Spits Out Kimchi, Gets Slapped By Teacher
by Minjun Chen on Thursday, January 29, 2015 0 comments comments
A disturbing black and white CCTV video shows a scene at a daycare center. This is not the normal scene of kids playing and laughing, but of a punishment and disciplining taking place. At the center is a young four year old girl, and an older woman, the daycare center teacher. The other children are on the side of the room, kneeling on the ground in fear. Suddenly, the teacher brings up her hand and slaps the little girl with such force she is flung across the room and into the wall. The four year old quickly gets up though, and kneels on the ground in front of the teacher, picking up her tray and spoon.
This article garnered over 29,000 comments on Naver, and is the latest in a string of violent teacher-student incidents at Korean schools.
Article from SBS:
“Why did you spit it out?” Slaps 4 Year old Across Room…A Classroom Filled with Fear
A daycare teacher has assaulted a four year old child for spitting out kimchi. The daycare teacher explained the child wasn’t eating her food and she was trying to teach the child, but the CCTV images don’t show any semblance of teaching.
Reporter Han Se-hyun has more.
Reporter
This is the CCTV video from the afternoon of January 8th, in Incheon’s Yeon-su-gu.
The daycare teacher roughly grabs a four year old’s hands.
As the child brings her hands to her mouth, the teacher hits her hands again.
The child crosses her legs nervously in fear.
When the child can’t help herself and spits out some food, the teacher suddenly slaps the child on the head with such force the child is thrown into the corner.
The terror stricken child gets up again and begins to clear away the food on the floor.
The parents were at a loss for words, not able to believe what they saw in the video.
The other kids at the daycare center are kneeling in fear on the ground, watching their friend assaulted by the teacher.
Daycare Center Parent: [The kid] didn’t eat her kimchi. [The teacher] tried to feed the child food she didn’t like, so the child kept bringing her hand to her mouth, leading the teacher to continually hit her hand away. The child swallowed the kimchi, then felt nauseous, so she spit it back out. So the teacher smacked her on the head.
She explained the child at the daycare center doesn’t eat a lot, and she was just trying to teach her a lesson, it was an accident.
>Observer at the daycare center: If I had known [the teacher was hitting children], I would not have let this happen. This is the first time it has happened. I’m sure of it.
The police booked 33 year old Ms. Yang without physical detention, and called the director of the daycare center on charges of negligent care, intending to investigate further. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aNWrLjpCVc
Syaitan. Budaya memukul anak2 patut dihentikan. Disiplin hape mendera anak kecil yang tidak berdaya. Bangsat sgt ummah yang percaya terror and pain boleh membentuk anak2.
Sebelum haku dihencap bodoh dan anak2 tanpa pukulan menjadi kuang ajo, aku nak tanyer soklan...hok kene pukul bertalu2 itu, adekah membeso jadi normal? Mungkin normal bagi mereka, tapi sebenonya tidak normal bagi orang lain.
Tidak memukul bukan makna biorkan aja. Banyak lagi cara lain untuk mendisiplinkan anak.