Hubei Yingshan County Vocational Education Center Teachers' Corporal Punishment Student Education Bureau Announces: The Teachers Involved Suspend Their Jobs for Reflection

  According to the Beijing News (trainee reporter Wu Pingping), in response to the video transmission of the video "Corporate Punishment of Students by Teachers of Hubei Yingshan Vocational Education Center" in the past two days, on the evening of October 23, the Yingshan County Education Bureau issued a notice stating that the incident was true Suspend the teacher's class teacher and teaching work, and ask them to suspend their duties for reflection.

  From October 23, the video about the corporal punishment of students by teachers of the Vocational Education Center of Yingshan County, Hubei began to spread on the Internet.

The online video showed that a woman wearing gray clothes repeatedly beat and slapped multiple students near the classroom podium.

  On the evening of October 23, the Yingshan County Bureau of Education issued a "Notice on the Situation of Physical Punishment of Students by Teachers of Yingshan County Vocational Education Center", stating that after preliminary investigation, it was confirmed that the incident of the teacher's physical punishment of students was true.

  According to the report, at 8 am on October 22, Duan, a first-year teacher in the Yingshan Vocational Education Center, punished 7 students who failed to clean the area as required in the classroom: slapped students on their faces and hammered students The palm of the hand forced the students to elbow the table top of the podium for three and a half minutes.

  Yingshan County Education Bureau stated that the teacher's behavior seriously violated the professional ethics of teachers and harmed the physical and mental health of students.

In response to this matter, first, the County Vocational Education Center was instructed to immediately suspend the teacher’s class teacher and teaching work, and to suspend for reflection.

The second is to request the school to sincerely apologize to students and parents, and provide psychological counseling to students.

The third is to file an investigation on the teachers involved.

The fourth is to order the school to carry out a special rectification of teachers' ethics and style, and all staff to conduct self-examination and self-correction.

  Beijing News reporter Wu Pingping