Child abuse: Spare the rod, please - China

Chris Engel 4/9/133:42 PM

"ON MARCH 25th, Global Times, a state-run newspaper, reported that a kindergarten teacher in Hebei province had been forcing pupils who misbehaved to drink their own urine as a punishment. The accused teacher has denied the reports, which are only the most recent in a series of allegations of child abuse at Chinese schools. Microbloggers are incensed.

"In one of the most widely discussed cases, in October 2012 Lin Junyan, a mother in the city of Wenling, in Zhejiang, found a photograph online of her five-year old son’s kindergarten teacher picking up the boy by his ears. The teacher looks like she is enjoying his pain as he screams...."

http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2013/04/child-abuse

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