Childrearing? Child-terrorizing?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4058833.stm

This is dangerous.
The cruelty, psychologically especially (if not physically as well) and the essential basis of breaking the psyche to make it fit a mold, is completely beyond the scope of acceptable teaching or counseling methods.
The people responsible for this should be brought to account for it and fast.