托福【阅读背景】：日本学生被逼喝盐酸.doc

托福【阅读背景】：日本学生被逼喝盐酸 小马过河为大家准备了“托福【阅读背景】：日本学生被逼喝盐酸”，供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267 　　The incident only came to light when another student told his parents what had happened. 　　Education authorities in Japan are to discipline a teacher who forced two students to drink diluted hydrochloric acid, the latest incident to trigger concern over corporal punishment in the nations schools. 　　The teacher, who has not been named but is from Gamagori, ordered the boys to drink the solution after they reported an incorrect result in a science experiment on January 18, the Nikkei Shimbun reported. 　　The incident only came to light when another student told his parents what had happened. 　　Officials of the local board of education in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, said the teacher had informed them that the acid posed no danger to the children as it was diluted. 　　But the authorities were not convinced. 　　As this incident posed a risk to the life and health of students, it was a grave failure of leadership and we can only apologise to the students and their families, the board said in a statement. 　　We are currently deciding in disciplinary measures for the teacher involved. 　　The incident has focused new attention on the punishments meted out to children in Japans schools. 　　Teachers are forbidden to use corporal punishment against pupils, but the suicide of a 17-year-old student on December 23 has demonstrated that it remains an integral part of school life here. 　　The boy was captain of the basketball team at Sakuranomiya Senior High School in Osaka and was repeatedly punished by his coach. The day before he was found hanging in his room, the boy was repeatedly slapped around the face for mistakes that he made in practice. 　　In a note to the coach that he never delivered, the boy wrote, Even if I make the same mistakes as others, I get scolded harshly because I am the captain. 　　After the boys suicide, 21 of the 50-strong basketball squad said they had been simil