When 9-year-old Tiantian failed to buy a textbook, she was called up to the front of her class by a male teacher, slapped in the face, and then beaten on the backs of her hands with a wooden plank.
Tiantian (an assumed name) attended the Suzhou No. 11 Elementary School in Anhui Province, where she lives with her father Liu Chao. Her parents are divorced. Because of trauma from the March 1 incident, she has been transferred to a different school.
Mr. Wang, the teacher who hit Tiantian, has also been transferred to a different school, but Liu thinks he ought to be fired, China News Service reported.
The whole textbook collection cost about 100 yuan (about $15). Earlier, Tiantian (an assumed name) had informed her father that her teacher had told them to buy the book, but he did not trust her with the money.
“In the morning of March 1, I gave the money to another teacher and asked him to buy the book,” Liu Chao told China News Service, “but the book was sold out that day. I had no idea that my daughter would be beaten that afternoon.”
