China teacher orders girls caught eating in class slap themselves in face then asks boys to help with beating, going viral and triggering official probe

Teacher apologises in group chat after parents were outraged. School headmaster says teacher lost her temper while dealing with personal matter. — SCMP

A primary school in eastern China’s Jiangsu province suspended a teacher after the woman told disobedient female students to slap themselves, and then asked boys in the class to smack the girls when they did not hit themselves forcefully enough.

On Dec 8, the teacher, surnamed Zhu, noticed some girls were eating snacks during her class. When she asked the girls who had snacks, nobody raised their hands to admit the mistake, according to the Guangzhou Daily.