Blog 58

In this blog, I am going to write about the school punishment to the students in my country, Korea. Unlike U.S., teachers in schools can punish their students by doing something bad. They hit the students’ hand, leg, and other parts with the stick. In the news on TV, some teachers punish their students by slapping their faces with hand. And some students suicided because they got too much punishments. While I lived in Korea until I graduated middle school, I experienced 9 years of the school life. I also got hit unexpected amount of time with the various kinds of sticks for 9 years. I cried a lot during my elementary school and sometimes I shouted to the teacher and got more punishment. I thought it was too much for the elementary kids and thought the punishment should not be happened in school. Maybe they think it is a great way to make children not to do the bad things. After I came to U.S., it was great that although the teachers get mad to their students sometimes, they never punished their students with actually hitting them. I was curious that why is it really different between Korea and U.S. Now I am old enough and there is no one who punishes me by hitting me. However, the little kids in Korea are still getting punished in school. I hope upper people make the rule to not hitting their students and deal with them something else, so these kinds of punishments do not happen anymore in the future.