An elementary school teacher (31) who sought to make his elementary school students “understand death” by graphically illustrating “death” to them by cutting himself repeatedly with a blade, and ensuring they saw the whole bloody act, traumatising them severely in the process, has been subject to a temporary pay cut.
According to the Board of Education responsible, in April the teacher confronted four of his homeroom students just before class, and then in two places carved open his left arm with a box cutter, showing the students both the act of cutting, and the blood which liberally welled up from the wounds.
One of the children subsequently has problems sleeping after witnessing this, such was the terror experienced.
He explained his actions by saying that he wanted to make the children “understand the meaning of death”.
After his instructive lectures he apparently lapsed into depression, and took a long absence from school.
He has been given a 10% pay cut for three months by way of a disciplinary measure.
In other news, the same Board of Education responsible for his punishment suspended a teacher (48) from her post for four months for updating her blog during working hours.
She was apparently writing about colleagues and student’s personal circumstances, though identifying them only by their initials, and explained her blogging by saying it was in response to stress.
She opted to retire after the verdict was rendered.
Via Sankei.
What a bad teacher. He didn’t even die.
Now the kids will be more confused and just think death means bleeding.
That would be hilarious. What if they got in a fight with each other and then one of them got a bloody nose. “Oh my god! You killed me!!!”
Hmm. So this is what live action Zetsubou Sensei would be like.
But wheres the noose
It’s not always by hanging. Remember that time he tried to jump in front of the train? XD
or off a cliff
Or when he wrapped that dynamite around his head XD
He failed. He didn’t die.
ZETSUBOU SHITA!
ZETSUBOUSHITA!
What a weird teacher. And a temporary pay cut somehow doesn’t make sense to me……
get it pay cut? cus he cut himself? ROFLMAO
i lol’d
Pay cut? LOL, He should’ve been fired and banned from teaching. What a lenient country
Lie. It’s only towards males. Females get the worst punishment.
Yes, they get reprehension…
Well… lesson learned. :P
Guy stabs himself in front of elementary students and then gets a temporary pay cut? Shouldn’t this guy be sent to a mental facility to be evaluated?
Well, better his cutting himself than his cutting one of his students to make them “understand the meaning of death”; although I suspect it wouldn’t help their traumatized states much even if it were the other way around.
This whole incident plays out like a comedy in my head.
They were traumatized by seeing the guy stab himself ? If he didn’t die or was hospitalized it seems like a pretty lame reason to be traumatized.
If you were a ten-year-old child and your teacher suddenly sliced open his arm and waved it in your face whilst babbling about the “meaning of death”, I think you’d be quite upset.
its like why they dont allow young children to watch those gory movies. Too traumatising.
When Titanic came out around the time I was 10 years old I went to watch it with my parents and they covered my eyes at a certain scene that I was very interested in knowing what was happening XD.
Thank you for telling us this. We was all waiting to hear this.
He was not cutting himself!
… He was preparing samples for a human biology class!
/Kafuka
he forgot that its down not across the street.only a pay cut and the lady gets suspended?that school board sure is something. hopefully the kid can recuperate fully.
Retarded, isn’t it?
I got derailed by yummy Asakura.
Holy crap. Those poor kids.
Oh you, clinically depressed people. That’s why you stay at home and watch anime and not go outside and socialize with people.
Hikikomorism is actually a saving our butts from insanity.
O.O I like the Asakura pic
erm… getting a pay cut.. of only 10%… for traumatizing kids… gg…
well, he surely thinks experiments are great, I think…
only question… it is about showing death… why not dieing for real, to let them see the full “Death” thingy? :O
meh, ppl are weird!.
He was just reenacting a scene from Terminator 2. Judging from the the reactions of the kids, he did it pretty well.
Huh? What’s everyone talking about? This isn’t an Asakura fetish article?
Seriously, although the paycut seems like a very lenient punishment, it’s probably a death sentece in expensive effing Japan.
Also, quite an effective teaching strategy for disenchanted students in modern Japan.
We should be thankful that didn’t actually do anything TO the kids.
great.. taking 10% pay cut from someone already depressed and allowing him to still teach. next time I bet it will be an actual suicide.. cause there’s always a next time it seems
Now that is crazy. Surprised he didn’t just go the whole hog and kill himself.
………….To h**l with the board of education, they’re beyond incompetent. A TEMPORARY TEN PERCENT pay-cut for the guy who traumatizes children and is likely very dangerous… but FOUR MONTHS suspension for the teacher who spends ten minutes on the internet during working hours….? All of them except the teacher who was suspended should be fired from schools permanently…
so nobody died? where is death? didnt he just scare the damn toddlers? epic fail, he should get a swinging boot to the balls
GTO+ZS = Great Teacher Zetsubou Sensei…
*salutes*