Javad Rastgoo: Principal Punishing Students

Khatm ol Anbia school in Khash, Sistan-Baluchestan Province

19-Dec-2011
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alx1711

how ironic, with picture of

by alx1711 on

how ironic, with picture of khomeini behind them and the beating they get!


jasonrobardas

Reminds me of Arshadi the pricncipal of Farabi school

by jasonrobardas on

in Esfahan, dring the shah's days....He was as brutal and vile as this fellow. Dictatorships of governments( then and now)  and dictatorships within our school systems go hand in hand .....


Ari Siletz

Roozbeh

by Ari Siletz on

 

Please explain your comment in reference to your motto:

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."

In what way did your father yield his personal business (retaliation for physical abuse of his son) to the collective interest of proceeding with a legally sanctioned response.

Also, what does "my own vicious cycle of violence" mean? Did your father keep coming to the school and beating the naazem, causing him to beat you more? 


Roozbeh_Gilani

ski-ab-ali aziz,

by Roozbeh_Gilani on

No, far from it. My dad was actually a "karmand dolat", but a strong, fit man. This all happened just as the revolution was picking up and I was in my first year at school. So my father was taking advantage of the revolutionary situation to punish the school's sadistic  Dictator, who liked beating kids of 6,7, 8. Funny enough the Naazem later grow rish o pashm, stopped drinking alcohal and  joined the local committee, and would try to create problems for our family, but that is another story...

 "Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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Corporal punishment in schools was also done in Shah's Era

by Hooshang Tarreh-Gol on

In my first year of Highschool ( Dabirestan) in Iran, we had an incredibly petulant, violent teacher, I'll never forget Aghay Damavandi, a science teacher. He once beat up a kid really bad, (only because he made a childish joke). He took the poor kid out of the classroom, into the school yard, kicking and punching him around...

The poor kid waited untill the end of the year, when his older family members taught Mr. Damavandi a good lesson on  picking on someone his own size. Reportedly Mr. Damabvandi was beaten up so bad, that after spending a few days in hospital, he changed his school.

Not sure if any one remembers students' revenges or not. But many abusive teachers ,if they had a car would get their tires slashed, or suger in the gas tank, or... My own father as a kid had such an espisode. His (rather liquid) reaction, ended up sending him from Kermanshah to Tehran.

Untill such barbaric abuses of students are abolished, the way to combat it seem s to be: getting even. Don't get mad, get even! Even Steven!


choghok

Nothing new

by choghok on

I have heard of many that parents many times asked teachers to beat their kids so they would grow up nice.

 

I think it is very good that people do send these clips online, I hope more and more would do this and that people in general record all abuses in the country. 


kazem0574

Notice Khomaini’s picture looking down

by kazem0574 on

Not sure if the kids upstairs intentionally kept Khomeini’s  picture in the frame!


In any case, its so symbolic of the legacy Khomeini  left behind.  Those in position of power and authority in IRI beating up the weak.

Also dorood bar any parent who confronts corporal punishment of this nature.


Ski-Ab-Ali

Mr. Gilani

by Ski-Ab-Ali on

I loved your comment, was your dad an “Arteshi”? Usually that scenario would happen if the kid was a son of arteshi. Either way, my hats off to your beloved dad.   


Roozbeh_Gilani

My own vicious cycle of violence with School Nazem...

by Roozbeh_Gilani on

Ended immediately after my Father visited him at school assembly one saturday morning, and gave him a good taste of his own medicine, applied using my dad's  fists and nazem's own anar stick, under the watchful eyes of my uncles, just in case Farash or modir decided to intervene, with hundreds of other delighted, cheering school kids watching the show..... 

That remains to this day the most joyous and educational day of my entire life.....  

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


Jahanshah Javid

Vicious cycle

by Jahanshah Javid on

Physical punishment, which has been taking place in Iranian homes and schools for ages, only perpetuates how people are treated in society by themselves and by the government. And when you have a government that relishes violence, it makes matters much worse. It's a vicious cycle.