Critics of my column may deride me for "making a fuss over a trivial incident", for such cases are still rare on China's campuses. My answer to them is we have to make this "fuss". Even if such incidents don't take place regularly or widely, the violence demonstrated by youngsters is still horrifying enough to cause alarm, especially because their frequency has been rising in recent years.
There are a number of reasons why more such incidents are taking place, and that include negligence of moral education in schools in favor of academic performances, irresponsible parents and deteriorating social ethics.
Addressing these problems may be a time-consuming exercise, but two things need to be done immediately. First, teachers should get more encouragement to bridle unruly, violence-prone students.
Currently, teachers tend not to confront such students for fear of being accused of "corporal punishment". Reports of students or their parents beating up teachers are not rare. That is the result of undue emphasis on "students' rights" and indiscriminate repudiation of all forms of punishment. Teachers should be able to punish in some form or the other students who have seriously violated norms.
The second thing that needs to be done is to rid movie products and video games of all violent elements. These products have very gory details and unnecessary description of crimes. Some even play up the "pleasure" of killing and injuring humans or animals, and their influence on kids is obvious. In the Shanxi classroom violence case, one of the students said: "It was just like being engaged in a gun battle in online computer games."
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