Teacher suspended after making unruly primary schoolchildren slap themselves on the face
- Parents said children returned home with red and swollen faces – account from classroom said one pupil had hit themselves 58 times
A music teacher in China’s eastern Jiangsu province outraged parents by making unruly Grade 2 pupils slap themselves in the face as punishment and one did it 58 times.
The teacher, Fu Jingrong, was reported to authorities by parents after pupils at Suqian city’s Suyu New Primary School returned home with red and swollen faces, Nanjing’s Modern Express said.
Fu left pupils unsupervised, with cartoons to watch as a distraction. When she returned to a rowdy and noisy class, she punished the pupils by making them stand up and slap themselves hard in the face, the report said.
“I’m so angry I’m shaking,” a parent told the newspaper. The mother of another pupil said her child had to slap herself as many as 20 times. One child did it 58 times, the report said.
A QQ messenger group for teachers and parents of that class showed several complaints, similar descriptions of the incident and demands for an investigation, the report said.