An Osakan high school that harshly punished a student guilty of cheating has been found to have essentially bullied the kid into committing suicide, thanks to harsh penalties that ended up teaching the student the wrong lesson.
The school, named Private Seifuu High and situated in the Tennoji district, discovered that a male student was cheating during an exam, but instead of just sensibly disqualifying the student and sending a parent letter, decided to impose harsh punishments that caused the kid to choose to commit suicide instead. The family of the deceased is currently suing the school for a little more than one hundred million yen in reparation.
According to the details of the lawsuit, the cheating occurred in 2021, and during the parents’ meeting afterwards, the student was forced to say out loud in front of faculty and his parents that he ‘was scum’. Furthermore, the teacher gave him the following punishments:
- 0 marks in every subject
- 8 days of suspension at home (not allowed to contact friends, etc., during this period)
- 80 volumes of Sutra copying, as well as a journal of what they learned during the process
- A written reflection and a diary of reflection
- No recommendation from the school
The boy killed himself two days after the punishment was handed down in the morning. In his suicide note, he wrote that ‘rather than the fear of dying, he was afraid of living while being seen as scum by everyone around him’.
The parents argue that the school’s choices in punishment and values pressured and instilled fear in the students so much to the point they took extreme action. However, the school has denied that there is any cause-and-effect between the punishment and the student’s subsequent suicide.
School definitely went overboard. If you catch a student cheating, yes punish them, but you’re also responsible for making sure the student learns his/her lesson in a controlled manner and give them a change to make-up for their mistakes. Not to humiliate them and bully them into hanging themselves.
And the school did that,it wasn’t overboard he having to admit he was kuzu,if you cheat you are kuzu either in school or sports yet he prefered to die instead of regretting his actions.
Is a sad world when people prefer to die then take responsability and regretting their bad actions.
The 0 points was because he probably got caught cheating before yet the student just went “is the school fault”.
He wasn’t humiliated in any way (just take this a teacher said to a gyaru she would never enter todai and she said “if i enter you will attend graduation naked and apologize” and in the end he had to attend the graduation naked and apologize with a dogeza).
Educators have to teach them lessons in life as well,if you cheat the punishment is hard either in school or real life which the school did was a great education job and we need that education if youngsters now prefer to be wimps and die for cheating instead of regretting their actions.
The reflection diary is normal,not getting a reccomendation is hard but just means you have to work harder (if a gyaru was able to enter todai with hard work and no reccomendation he should have been able to work hard but he didn’t and that gyaru had to start from scratch since she barelly was able to read kanji)
Your an asshole! This was way fucking overboard! With this overboard they were pushing him into SUICIDE! School is at damn fault!
0 marks in every subject – BULLSHIT (One he cheated in yes but not ones he would be good at)
8 days of suspension at home (not allowed to contact friends, etc., during this period) – CAN’T control what students do from home so more BULLSHIT
80 volumes of Sutra copying, as well as a journal of what they learned during the process – WHAT THE f♥♥k! 80 VOLUMES! Fucking INSANE!
A written reflection and a diary of reflection – FAIR
No recommendation from the school – POSSIBLY but give a second chance at the very least after learning lesson!
Yeah the fucking school needs to be sued these are too fucking harsh for any penalty! This is fucking bullying by the damn school! I hope parents fucking win the lawsuit though it is not enough for the lost of a family member!
Japan’s education system may not be as progressive as most weeb idiots think it is. Did any of you remember that LGBT s♥♥t they tried to push on to these students? It was claimed to be a bad actor, I call bullshit on that.
Tried to push? That bill passed and they ARE teaching kids to jerk it, screw and take it in the butt. Some middle school in Saitama recently had drag queens come for an assembly….Kishida IS a US and WEF puppet.
Theres punishment and then theres flat out bullying and public humiliation.
This school went for the second option.
They deserve to get closed down, thats not how you handle a cheating student in any shape or form.
This is the unfortunate reality of living in a shame culture. The kid knew that his life was basically ruined and decided to end it. Absolute tragedy.
Another textbook case of the Japanese school system and societal expectations/pressure breaking a young person who could not take it.
You would think that a country with low birth rates would care much more about raising mentally healthy adults.
If this happened in America, the kid will go gun blazing, rampaging the school like Rambo. LOL