Father calls for stricter punishment in ‘pencil assault’ incident
Social affairsJul 19, 2018
A student’s father publicly denounced school authorities for failing to take proper disciplinary action against the student he believes “assaulted” his son with a sharpened pencil. According to the Incheon Office of Education on Thursday, a second-grader in Namdong-gu, Incheon, came back to his seat after finishing a presentation when a pencil set up upright by a peer impaled his tail bone on June 14. The classmate claimed the whole incident was intended to be a joke. The pencil reportedly pierc