Bizarre 'Punishment Assignment' by Teacher Costs Her Job

In a bizarre ‘punishment assignment’ given by a female teacher in a private school in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district, a student of class eight was asked to write a vulgar word (abusive language used against mothers) 200 times, sparking public outrage.

The student was asked by the teacher in the Birla Open Mind International School, Ambikapur, to write the word 100 times each in Hindi and English and get the copy signed by his parents, officials said on Thursday.

Surguja district education officer (DEO) Dinesh Jha has ordered a probe into the incident after the matter was brought to his notice.

“A probe has been ordered and appropriate action will be taken in the matter after the investigation”, he told the media.

The teacher was meanwhile terminated from her service by the school management after an internal probe.

The incident happened on Wednesday.

According to local Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) leader Rohini Mishra, who had taken up the matter with the DEO for action, two students of class eight in the school were caught by the teacher using abusive language against each other while clashing.

One of the students was asked by the teacher to write the abusive language in his notebook 200 times and get it signed by his parents, as punishment.

The student later approached his parents with the copy for their signatures, leaving them shell-shocked.

The student’s father then lodged a complaint with the school authorities demanding action against the teacher, saying that ‘We send our children to school to study, not to learn vulgar languages’.

According to the school registrar Utkars Kiran, the matter was taken seriously by the authorities and the teacher was suspended pending an internal probe into it.

Later, the teacher was sacked by the school management after finding the lapse, he said.