Picture courtesy of Thai Rath

 

A teacher in Bangkok faces backlash after punishing a student with 200 squats, resulting in kidney issues and severe muscle breakdown.

 

On 11th June 2025, a popular Facebook page, Drama-addict, shared a distressing story involving a high school student in Bangkok. The student was punished by a teacher with 200 squats for late homework submission.

 

This led to severe leg pain and, within days, the student's urine turned coke-coloured due to acute kidney problems.

 

Doctors diagnosed the student with rhabdomyolysis, a condition where muscle injury causes muscle cell content to leak into the bloodstream, potentially leading to kidney failure or even death if untreated.

 

Fortunately, the student’s kidney damage is currently manageable, with doctors closely monitoring the situation.

 

The doctor involved urged a reconsideration of such severe punishments, highlighting the unnecessary risks they pose, not only in schools but also in military settings.

 

This sparked considerable social media outrage, with users calling for the teacher's dismissal and critiquing outdated disciplinary methods.

 

Many comments suggested alternative punishment methods, such as identifying underlying issues for incomplete homework rather than resorting to physical punishment.

 

The consensus is clear: punitive measures like these are unacceptable in today’s educational and social context.

 

Image thanks to Facebook Drama-addict

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from Thai Rath 2025-06-12

 

 

Sadly there are nutters everywhere and the teaching profession is not immune to this. This person needs to have their teaching license revoked as I'm pretty sure this would be just one incident in a list of many.

Just give them a bad grade.  Let them have a chance to make it up so they learn the subject. 

41 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Sadly there are nutters everywhere and the teaching profession is not immune to this. This person needs to have their teaching license revoked as I'm pretty sure this would be just one incident in a list of many.

 

They should be charged as well. 

10 minutes ago, blaze master said:

 

They should be charged as well. 

TIT. The teacher will pay money to the family and that will be that.

Just now, dinsdale said:

TIT. The teacher will pay money to the family and that will be that.

 

Yep 😔

Oh come on.

 

In my day it was a free for all. Teachers were regularly drunk in the lounge, and violence was an everyday thing in the classroom.

 

You just learned to roll with the punches literally.

 

Kids are just too mollycoddled these days.

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

Sadly there are nutters everywhere and the teaching profession is not immune to this. This person needs to have their teaching license revoked as I'm pretty sure this would be just one incident in a list of many.

 

There are also many foreign teachers, reaking to cigarettes and chugging Leo's during lunch breaks, that shouldn't be near children

5 minutes ago, KireB said:

 

There are also many foreign teachers, reaking to cigarettes and chugging Leo's during lunch breaks, that shouldn't be near children

 

Deport.

I'd make the teacher do 400 squats 

2 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

Deport.

For drinking a Leo beer? Sharia next?

Be very careful when making the kids run and/or do physical exercises for no submission of homework or other. Some of them may have underlying medical conditions, and the physical punishments may trigger a series of different ailments, leading to serious injuries or even death.

Hi. I have the opposite case from France two days ago: 

Here is why punishment from teacher is good because in western countries look what happened in a French high-school: 

 

The supervisor stabbed by a student near the Françoise Dolto secondary school in Nogent (Haute-Marne) has died from her injuries.

 

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There might have been a legitimate reason for submitting the homework late, eg. family problems. Punish the teacher by deducting salary and by charging the hospital bills to him, if he can't be fired.

A swift kicking in the nether region and lifelong ban from teaching. 

Loss of pension and medical benefits. 

“The doctor involved urged a reconsideration of such severe punishments,”

 

Ya think?

5 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

Deport.

 

5 hours ago, KireB said:

 

There are also many foreign teachers, reaking to cigarettes and chugging Leo's during lunch breaks, that shouldn't be near children

Do you have any proof? I doubt it 

I didn't know doing too many squats could be that dangerous.

6 hours ago, WEBBYB808 said:

Just give them a bad grade.  Let them have a chance to make it up so they learn the subject. 

 Oh yee who have no idea.

 

This is the land of guaranteed pass.  You can fail every test do absolutely no homework and you still get 55 and pass.  What matters is the class number.  If somchai is in mat 3/15. Then he really doesn't care because he is finished school after February 

11 minutes ago, renaissanc said:

There might have been a legitimate reason for submitting the homework late, eg. family

Maybe not. Just lazy?

Whatever the reason, corporal punishment is against the law. Lucky it wasn't my son as this teacher would now be xxx...

7 hours ago, WEBBYB808 said:

Just give them a bad grade.  Let them have a chance to make it up so they learn the subject. 

Yes, just say go home do you homework and return when it's ready... not before

7 hours ago, WEBBYB808 said:

Just give them a bad grade.  Let them have a chance to make it up so they learn the subject. 

 

The family will pay money to the teacher and/or administration, and that will be that.

I’m sorry, but I find it hard to believe that “only” 200 squats will cause that. 

Who marks homework anyway. 

I understand that teaching can involve punishment for certain types of “failure”.. and I also get that fundamentally punishment is designed to be a negative stimuli .. 

 

that said, I think whatever form it takes really has to end up being more positively motivational than negatively punitive.

 

LATER in life, sure, punishment can (and probably should be) much more punitive - as people of that age are adults and as such own 100% of their acrions.

 

Kids, while still responsible for much of it, are still formative - and I think the key should be more “molding” the behaviors that we - as educators - are after and less about the focus being punitive. 

This teacher went way over the line. In general I think teachers (and parents) should be able to impose reassonable discipline on kids who are out of control. This was not reasonable. 

 

I suggest if the school system is unwilling to impose a harsh penalty on this teacher, the parents or the family should. 

That poor kids life is screwed now, kidney disease,  he probably will need a kidney transplant now  or dialysis  

8 hours ago, KireB said:

 

There are also many foreign teachers, reaking to cigarettes and chugging Leo's during lunch breaks, that shouldn't be near children

Can you prove that 

5 hours ago, KireB said:

For drinking a Leo beer? Sharia next?

I guess the poster was thinking of drinking while being responsible for kids.

Not just for having a beer.