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Homework 'not heavy enough to justify suicide'
By Liang Yiwen |
September 22, 2011, Thursday
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A schoolmaster in east China's Jiangxi Province has denied the homework that drove three 10-year-old girls to attempt suicide was too burdensome, Jiangnan Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.
The three jumped from a second-floor apartment on Monday morning because they had not finished their homework over the weekend. One girl broke her back and lost the feeling in her legs. Another broke her shoulder blade and damaged internal organs.
The three said they had been doing homework for the whole of Sunday but could not finish it. They said their teachers would punish them by smacking their faces or their hands or forcing them to stand outside the classroom. They claimed such punishments had previously been imposed.
They said they tried to kill themselves to avoid the punishment and more homework assignments.
"If we died, we would not have to do homework anymore," one girl said. The others agreed.
They jumped hand in hand on Monday morning. They were discovered by villagers and taken to hospital.
Zhou Liangqi, the principal of Saiyang Primary School in Jiujiang City, denied the homework was too heavy, saying it can be done in three hours.
He said the girls failed to finish the homework because they were poor workers, and he denied physical punishment was used.
The three jumped from a second-floor apartment on Monday morning because they had not finished their homework over the weekend. One girl broke her back and lost the feeling in her legs. Another broke her shoulder blade and damaged internal organs.
The three said they had been doing homework for the whole of Sunday but could not finish it. They said their teachers would punish them by smacking their faces or their hands or forcing them to stand outside the classroom. They claimed such punishments had previously been imposed.
They said they tried to kill themselves to avoid the punishment and more homework assignments.
"If we died, we would not have to do homework anymore," one girl said. The others agreed.
They jumped hand in hand on Monday morning. They were discovered by villagers and taken to hospital.
Zhou Liangqi, the principal of Saiyang Primary School in Jiujiang City, denied the homework was too heavy, saying it can be done in three hours.
He said the girls failed to finish the homework because they were poor workers, and he denied physical punishment was used.
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