China kindergarten teacher trio fired for ‘repeated abuse’ after boy tells mother of relief at ‘not being hit all day’, social media in shock

Police discover pattern of physical attacks after being called in by suspicious mother. Anger erupts on social media amid calls for nursery to be shut down and teachers placed on blacklist. — SCMP

The revelations of a five-year-old boy in China who told his mother he was happy because he had not been hit by his kindergarten teachers for a whole day has shocked the mainland public.

The physical abuse was reported to police in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province by the boy’s mother, surnamed Sun, in July.