A Grade Seven pupil has failed to write her final examinations after a teacher attacked her. The teacher at Chishakwe Primary School fle...
A Grade Seven pupil has failed to write her final
examinations after a teacher attacked her.
The teacher at Chishakwe Primary School flew into a rage
after the pupil failed to raise a hand during a class discussion.
The 13-year-old
Burma Valley pupil has now being downgraded to Grade Six lessons while her
colleagues finish off the 2018 Zimsec exams.
The pupil’s mother, Mrs Constance Tsikamvere was furious. She
said she was the one meeting medical expenses for the child.
“I cannot believe it even up to now. I thought my child
would be completing Grade 7 this year but look now. It is so painful, but at
the end of the day I have to accept it,” she said.
The pupil told the Manica Post : “It was on a Thursday when
she (Ms Diza) came to our class for an agriculture lesson. She asked a question
that no one could answer, and nobody raised a hand to answer.
“She then asked a different question and I was among those
who did not raise their hands, as I did not know the answer. She started
beating us for not raising our hands. A certain boy complained that he had been
injured and she asked him to give her the other hand.
“She came to me and beat me four times on my hand. I cried
and could not stand the pain. My hand started swelling and I was in great pain.
I could not write until (last Monday) when Grade 7s started their exams. After
missing out the final exam, I was told to attend lessons in Grade Six lessons,”
she said.
Provincial education director Mr Edward Shumba confirmed
that corporal punishment was indeed administered on the child. “There was an
error in that after admitting that corporal punishment the headmistress says
she cautioned the teacher yet under normal circumstances reports were supposed
to be compiled and the teacher in question be charged. It is like a police
officer arrived at a scene of an accident where a person has been hit and
killed by a vehicle and then the officer issues a $20 admission of guilty fine.
That is not proper.”
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