Yet another Japanese school has caused a bullying scandal, this time by insisting a bullying victim who was tortured with dozens of cigarette burns leave the school as the ghastly state of his arm might bother classmates.
A 16-year-old student at a Sendai city high school was the victim of sustained bullying from 4 classmates starting in November of 2011, culminating in “a test of courage” involving repeatedly burning him with cigarettes.
He suffered over 20 cigarette burns in one attack, and as graphic photographs of his forearm show, this left him with significant scars. He was also repeatedly beaten and attacked, eventually becoming unable to attend school further.
According to the boy’s mother, in August the school finally tackled the incident, with the bullies apologising for some of their actions, but the school also told her they wanted the boy to “voluntarily” drop out of the school, “as the scars on his arm will disturb other students.”
In response, his family has raised the stakes – by reporting the incident to police as a case of assault. For once, police have accepted the complaint and are apparently investigating.
The school has refused to comment on their handling of the incident.
It should be noted that the school’s response occurred in August and July – well after the bullying suicide incident in Shiga played out into a national scandal and a major criminal investigation.
Amongst Japanese there appears to be increasing exasperation at just how rotten the nation’s teachers and schools have become, although if this can occur even after the issue was repeatedly addressed by the PM and cabinet and police and media descended upon a sacrificial school there does not appear to be much prospect of progress:
“So now they expel the victim…”
“Are there really schools which are this horrible?”
“This is grotesque.”
“These will never heal completely. Too harsh.”
“I simply cannot believe a school could be this nasty…”
“The school’s message is that weaklings who get bullied should just stay home!”
“Can’t they fix this with surgery? He won’t be able to get a job unless he can keep his arm covered all the time.”
“It’s as bad as the one in Shiga…”
“It’s even worse than Shiga!”
“I suppose this time the bullies have powerful parents as well. Expelling the victim is just…”
“The bullies should be expelled for smoking if nothing else.”
“I just feel sick when I hear about how these schools handle this stuff…”
“What does this school even mean by it ‘disturbing other students’?”
“This is well within the bounds of criminal assault. Those bullies ought to have been promptly arrested and that would have been the end of the matter!”
“What kind of school expels bullying victims?”
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These schools, teachers, and bullies....they disgust me.
Does Japan even try to make an effort to make schools a place of learning? I feel like they're turning these places into jails and the kids are going crazy. Why is it that the teachers just.. Turn the other cheek? Are they afraid of the bullies too?
This isn't like my highschool anime where everyone gets along.
And either becomes a mecha pilot, magical girl, is secretly the opposite sex, obtains a harem, fight demons, is a secret detective, is a ninja or gets thrown/transported to another world, universe and dimension to become a hero.
Real life is kind of an ass and boring isn't it?
I was treated like shit by my whole class, too back when I was at school. Even tough I never did anything to anyone - they just didn't like me for no reason. I never even defendet myself physicly or verbaly.
If this was a fair world, everyone in my class should've been expelled from school. Everyone but me for I never did anything. Sadly, this is not how it works.
One day, we took a one weeek class trip and I was not allowed to come. The teacher said, she would not be able to have everyone under control if the only thing everyone would think about was bullying me!
Again, if this world was fair, I should've been the only one allowed to the class trip and everyone else should've had to stay home -_-
Thats sick.
Human trash like them doesnt deserve to live.
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Im really surprised that there hasnt been a school shooting or something similar (if guns arent avaible). Thinking about being in this situation, youd rather wanted the bullies to die too, before comitting suicide.
In manga I always roll my eyes at the over-the-top violence and disrespect school bullies get away with, as they always seemed a little too absurd for me to take seriously given my own history with schools.
Suddenly I wonder if I'm the one being naive in assuming Japanese schools have standards even approaching those I'm familiar with...
"Blessed are the strong, for they shall possess the earth - Cursed are the weak, for they shall inherit the yoke!"
They are not assholes just social darwinists...
well then put them in a cage and let them fight. whoever wins, will live. apparently they're nothing more than animals.
That's the way how should we prepare our childrens for the real life!
You don't have to worry about us!!! We 2d lovers will never have children!
You can have child. But you have to draw it yourself, or maybe ask the animator to draw it for you.
I love people who endorse an incorrect understanding of social darwinisim from behind a computer screen.
Are these public or private schools?
This is just gay!
Well, its better to expel just one than four right ?
you are so right. sacrifice one for the benefit of the many. on that thought we should kill all the elderly too because they only deplete our economy's resources without doing anything. amrite?
it would actually be of benefit of Japan to do so, so you sarcasm falls flat here
Ishi's reached that age, no?
Did you even read the article? They expelled the victim not one of the bullies...
It is the same in my country (and probably in yours too). There are a bunch of students bulling another student, instead of dealing with all the bullies they just preffer to punish the bullied one. It is easier.
If the bullied reacts they say "It takes two to begin a fight." if the bullies ask for help they say that it is his fault if people bully him, they wouldn't pick on him if he were innocent.
And that's how I got expelled from most schools in my city.
They probably receive money after the number of students. :o
Like with American welfare? More babies you have, the more money you get.
It is the same here and probably on most schools in the world. It is easier to deal with one individual than with a group, even more if the group have powerfull parents.
That is just stupid. Then, if five people torture and burn one victim, you know, for fun. Until the victim need to go ICU and undergo reconstructive plastic surgery on his face, because he look like Two-Face in Batman. By your logic, the victim is the one should be thrown into jail, because it easier on the government tax.
Bullies is the one that have to deal with punishment, not the victim.. And what make you thing that by expelling victim, the bullies going to stop their wrongdoing? They will just move on, finding another weak lamb to be bullied.
id put the fucking kibosh on all those bullies
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups...
"Never underestimate the Stupidity of Idiots." ~Deadpool
You can see the results in many country elections .
yep~ look at the '08 election in amerikka for that one. Electing a "community organizer" who served two years in the senate doing NOTHING but showing up to vote "present".
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Stupidity~~~ it's world wide and always festering in surprisingly the brightest places.
A much better choice than the potential havoc Palin might have caused. "I can see Russia from my window = foreign policy experience" How brilliant.
Sarah Palin never said "I can see Russia from my window." That was Tina Fey lampooning Sarah Palin. Never let the facts get in the way of a good political rant.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ~Albert Einstein
he saw the future!!
Actually you forgot the last one: the number of zubats in dark caves.
Voted up for quoting Deadpool.
You were voted up for replying to the wrong post. Good show my friend.
Corporations being a prime example. Individual profit without the individual responsibility. The following is strictly hypothetical and not a statement of fact. The Principle tells the press it was the decision of the school board/PTA to expel the victim, even though he/she's the one who initially tabled the decision to the board.
they reelected isahara what 3 times....
I suggest that these school officials "voluntarily stop breathing" as I find the thought breathing the same air as them repulsive.
i'm guessing the only way for their system to take notice is maybe like here in the US, have a kid go crazy and go on a killing spree on their school ground then they might start taking all this shit more seriously...
Okay kids! Today's syllabus is the natural selection!
My child...
Some day, some place, there will be a few bad people who will try to do anything in their power to make your life miserable. They may isolate you in class, hide your shoes, put rat shit in your meal, drag you into the toilet and beat you... Horrible things you do not normally expect to happen to another human being by another human being.
Do not be sad, my son. These children have their own issues. Maybe they lack love from their parents. Maybe they were spoilt shitless that they cannot learn the meaning of consequence.
Help them. Let them know. Teach them the only way you can.
Poison their food. Put thumbtacks in their shoes. Snap any of their fingers with all your might if they touch you will ill intentions. Pick up a steel pipe and smack their skull from behind when they least expect.
Do not be guilty about them. You are helping them learn, helping them realize something their parents did not teach them. Be even. Have no prejudice. After all, you are only playing in their own game. The strongest in nature.
And if you get caught by the big men in blue and thrown in prison, I will visit you every week. And if you get killed, rest assured that you died a free man.
Yeah, I determined a long time ago that if I ever got majorly bullied I would plan out a way to kill everyone that bullied me.
Granted it never got that far. As a kid I just got into fights and didn't take shit from people. I wasn't a good fighter, but I was strong an durable, so I didn't win or lose. By 8th grade people stopped fucking with me (though they may have matured by then anyway).
Russians don't take shit from people.
Honestly, that is the only way they will stop. But many kids don't fight back, and those are the ones who blame themselves and end up hurting themselves.
Most learn soon that if they fight back they will be punished by the school. Again, it is easier to punish one than a dozen.
Fuck yea russians.
You know, I am still waiting for russians to mellow out a bit and stop hating the west, and instead focus on exterminating 1.3bn yellow vermin that shares a very porous border with your eastern territories. You guys really need to get your priorities in order.
No hitler's going to come back from the dead and try to invade moscow. Know your enemies and friends.
" but the school also told her they wanted the boy to “voluntarily” drop out of the school, “as the scars on his arm will disturb other students. "
They treat the victim as if he just had a tattoo.
As a once good friend said: "The stupid people are outbreeding the smart people! Were doomed!"
Sounds like a real life Idiocracy
“As the scars on his arm will disturb other students.”
Its the schools fault how they handle the situation .If students don't like to see his scars they might as well see his scars just to learn a valuable lesson about being human.
Kill him or drop the damn story