Rjc- teacher scolding student incident
Should the people involved be videoed?
To a large extent, I do not feel that the people involved should be videoed, and especially do not deserve for the video to be put up on the internet for the world to see. Though the boy’s face could not be seen, it is hard to imagine the type of embarrassment that the boy has to be put through especially after the harsh scolding that he had to go through. I am sure that through the video, both of the characters in the video have become infamous characters in their school. Though we do not know the purpose of putting up this video, most people will conclude that it is to embarrass the teacher showing everyone the harsh and unfair treatment to her students. However, as both Jessie and Yijiao have said, this could have been a one-off incident and does not show the true teaching style of the teacher as such we should not jump to conclusions about the teacher too quickly.

Who is at fault?
From what I can see, both the person taking the video as well as the teacher taking the video are at fault here.
As what Yijiao has said, the person taking the video could have been taking it for his own pleasure, but then again, what right does he have to take it down in the first place. He or she had not asked the permission of either party in the video. Also, by taking these kind of videos, it is inevitable that the video will spread especially if the video involves top schools causing much controversy for both the school and the teacher and both the teacher’s and student’s reputation will drop.
The teacher involved here is also at fault as by tearing up the student’s work as well as using harsh language was perhaps too much for scolding the student about the tardy work that he has handed in. Even if the student has done this more than once before, he does not deserve to be scolded like this, especially in front of other students. Though I feel that scolding is needed to ensure that students do hand in their work on time, the teacher could maybe use less harsh language on the student so as to not make the student so discouraged.

What should be done?
As both parties are at fault here, both must look back and reflect on their actions. The real question would be should the video even be put up on the internet? As we do not know the full story of the incident, we are unable to make a conclusion about the incident. If this was a once off incident in which the teacher is usually very concerned about the teacher then the video should not be put up. However, if this is the true behavior of the teacher, the video serves as a reminder on how teachers should treat student.

Sylvie Howled at 11:34 AM