What punishment for students who beat up and stripped off their friends while filming?

Nhóm học sinh đánh hội đồng dã man nữ sinh lớp 9 tại Quảng Bình, rồi lột áo quay clip làm nhục bị kỷ luật, nghỉ học một tuần khiến nhiều người không đồng tình - Ảnh cắt từ clip — A group of students brutally beat a 9th grade female student in Quang Binh, then stripped her shirt and filmed a humiliating clip. They were disciplined and suspended from school for a week, causing many people to disagree - Photo cut from clip

The Disciplinary Council of Quang Phu Secondary School (Quang Trach, Quang Binh) has just issued disciplinary measures for 3 students involved in the case of stripping off their clothes, filming a clip, and brutally beating a female 9th grader at Quang Chau Secondary School. However, the punishment for this behavior has caused many conflicting opinions about its deterrent effect.

So what punishment is appropriate for students who beat and humiliate their friends?

A week off school is not a punishment.

According to an announcement from the Quang Trach District Department of Education and Training, two students, one of whom directly beat and stripped off the shirt, and the other who filmed the clip and posted it on social media, were forced to suspend their studies for a week. The other student who did not intervene but instead cheered on the students was reprimanded.

Many readers believe that these punishments are too superficial and not enough of a deterrent to prevent school violence from recurring.

These comments are even more reasonable when compared to the continuous kicks, slaps, and hair pulling that the group of students used to torture the 9th grade female student for several minutes. Even more dangerous and with long-term consequences, the group also stripped off her clothes, filmed a clip, and posted it on social media to humiliate the victim.

Nếu không có hình phạt cứng rắn, những vụ đánh hội đồng học sinh sẽ tiếp tục xảy ra - Ảnh cắt từ clip tư liệu — Without strict punishment, student gang-rape will continue to occur - Photo cut from documentary clip

Reader Thanh Duy thinks that for hooligan children who no longer like going to school, letting them stay home from school is not a punishment.

Reader Nguyen Quoc Thanh said that the students who beat people do not want to go to school, so the punishment of temporary suspension is not a deterrent.

Need a stronger punishment for gang beating?

Many readers on social media, after watching the clips of female students beating their friends and stripping them to film the clips, all shared the same feeling of indignation. At school age, these students have learned early on to use violence to torture or retaliate against others.

Many people are worried because they do not know if their children will be the next victims, especially when in just a few months after Tet, there have been a series of school violence cases occurring in all localities. Many students were beaten by their friends until they had concussions and forgot their own names.

Once a student becomes the victim of a gang beating followed by stripping and filming a humiliating video, the consequences for that student are not only physical injuries that require hospitalization, but also deep psychological wounds that no one knows when will heal.

Another thing that worries parents more is that the punishments for these behaviors are quite confusing for schools.

The veil of being a minor is always a thick shield to cover up such terrible acts. And the final pain is still borne by the victim and his family.

Therefore, many readers have requested that schools and educational management agencies must come up with stricter forms of discipline to deter and prevent school violence from recurring.

Reader Doan Phi expressed the opinion that students should be suspended from school for a year, required to report to the police every week, and required to be on duty in the school yard for one week every month. Only then can school violence be stopped.

"Community service, probation, lifelong record keeping, along with regulations that universities, colleges, and professions will not recruit or employ people with such bad records. The stain can still be washed away, but it must be a process, of a truly different person; not just a week of confinement to erase it," another reader suggested.

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