{"id":282769,"date":"2017-11-17T15:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T11:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am?p=282769"},"modified":"2017-11-17T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T11:21:26","slug":"vanadzor-teacher-harasses-student-gets-away-with-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/11\/17\/vanadzor-teacher-harasses-student-gets-away-with-warning.html","title":{"rendered":"Vanadzor Teacher Harasses Student, Gets Away with Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second grade student of the N22 school in the Armenian third-largest city of Vanadzor was \u201cperiodically subjected to abuse\u201d by the head of the class, the Helsinki Citizens Assembly Vanadzor office (HCAV) was informed by the child\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2017, according to the mother, the teacher, N. Antonyan, hit the child and bruised his ear for unsatisfactory performance of a task; the child also urinated out of fear, while the teacher made him remain in his seat until the end of the class to further humiliate him in front of his classmates.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving the complaint, HCAV appealed to the Ministry of Education and Science, and the headmaster of the school. The ministry promised to look into the case and restore the child&#8217;s right to education; headmaster D. Melkonyan, meanwhile, insisted that the mother \u201chad in fact exaggerated.\u201d According to the headmaster, the child\u2019s bruises did not appear because of the teacher\u2019s actions, but as a result of a quarrel with classmates, which, he said, had ended after the intervention of the deputy headmaster.<\/p>\n<p>Class Head N. Antonyan, in turn, admitted that her behavior had been in appropriate for a teacher; she said she had reprimanded the student too loudly and had told him that he \u201cstinked.\u201d The teacher has received a warning from the headmaster for her \u201cunbefitting conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for the child, he has already been transferred to another school in Vanadzor.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the headmaster, the child\u2019s bruises did not appear because of the teacher\u2019s actions, but as a result of a quarrel with classmates&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66049],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}