Italy. Camphone video of Student beaten by Teacher

AGI Online reports on a camera phone video of a pupil being beaten up by his teacher - following what was probably a provoking prank.

But what's interesting is that this lead to an investigation which uncovered "18 other other videos which recorded excessive behaviour and sometimes violent actions, revealing what Italian schools are like for some pupils (often with the passive acceptance of their classmates) which maybe neither teachers nor parents were aware of or pretended to be unaware of".

Related Incidents from around the world:

-- Canadian Teacher's angry outburst filmed and posted on YouTube (2006)

-- Singapore Student films teacher berating classmate (2003)

-- Video of US teacher's outburst is on Web (2005)

-- UK Teachers shun phone-photo pupil who shot staff' cleavage (2006)

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